Topic > Covid-19
The Future Society, UNESCO, and others partner on pandemic decision-making platform
App Annie: Mobile gamers broke app store records in Q2 2020
AmazeVR debuts COVID-era concert platform for VR or in-person viewing
COVID-KG uses AI to scan thousands of studies to answer doctors’ coronavirus questions
How technology is helping dine-in restaurants reopen
Microsoft pledges to upskill 25 million workers for the ‘COVID-19 economy’
Lyft resumes autonomous vehicle testing on public roads
Where the U.K. went wrong with its COVID-19 contact tracing app
Microsoft is permanently closing all physical retail stores
Boston Dynamics will ship Spot with a robot arm ‘in a few months’ and for home use ‘someday’
Ujet raises $55 million to expand cloud-based customer support platform
DoNotPay’s legal bots help consumers fight the system during lockdown
Appen: 75% of employees believe AI is critical to their business
Realife Tech taps big data to help live event venues reopen
AI model uses smartphone location data to predict power grid usage
Games for Change unveils sessions on mental health, diversity, and COVID-19
NHS finds VR training boosts coronavirus frontline worker performance
DroneBase raises $7.5 million as demand for commercial drones surges
Amazon unveils Distance Assistant, an open source platform to enforce physical distancing among workers
LinkedIn: AI hiring is slowing down due to the pandemic
Twitter removes more than 170,000 accounts linked to Beijing-backed propaganda campaign
Ford launches Spin internationally as escooter demand surges
Working under a tech-fueled microscope in the coronavirus era
How scientists are using supercomputers to combat COVID-19
China’s Didi Chuxing says ride-hailing orders are back to pre-pandemic levels
CES 2021 organizers are planning a physical event, but who will come?
Lenovo and Pico announce Mirage VR S3 all-in-one enterprise headset
Robot helps SK Telecom disinfect, detect gatherings, and check employee temperatures
AI Weekly: Autonomous vehicle companies pivot to charitable deliveries during the pandemic
ProBeat: Throw out all your pre-coronavirus surveys and start again
COVID-19 HPC Consortium pours 437 petaflops of compute power toward virus research
Level Ex upgrades surgery games to virtually train doctors to treat COVID-19
Autonomous car company Aurora increases hiring amid industry struggles
Google now lets merchants accept bookings for online services
HTC cofounder Peter Chou launches XRspace to bring social VR to the masses
The Pentagon’s Joint AI Center wants to be like Silicon Valley
AI Weekly: Getting back to work under the watchful eye of technology
Researchers use predictive models to calculate more accurate COVID-19 case fatality ratios
