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Ford partners with Thermo Fisher on COVID-19 test kits, expands production to face masks, gowns
Ford has expanded its plan to make critical medical equipment and supplies, including a new effort to make reusable gowns…
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Google starts highlighting virtual care options in Search and Maps
The COVID-19 pandemic has put a spotlight on virtual care options as both doctors and patients try to reduce in-person…
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ClimateView raises $2.5 million for its toolkit to visualize climate mitigation plans
ClimateView, a Swedish software development company working on monitoring and visualization tools for greenhouse gas emissions, said it has raised…
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Headspace appoints former Intuit exec CeCe Morken as president and COO
As it looks to continue along its path of developing clinically validated digital therapeutics for consumer and clinical mental health…
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DeepMind’s Agent57 AI agent can best human players across a suite of 57 Atari games
Development of artificial intelligence agents tends to frequently be measured by their performance in games, but there’s a good reason…
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Operation COVID-19 will allow self-reporting of cases, to get ahead of official figures
The Canadian founder of a startup who caught COVID-19 from Justin Trudeau’s wife has launched an initiative to allow anyone…
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Pre-school EdTech startup Lingumi raises £4m, adds some free services during Covid-19
At these difficult times, parents are concerned for their children’s education, especially given so much of it has had to…
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Africa’s tech ecosystem responds to COVID-19
In March, the virus gripping the world — COVID-19 — started to spread in Africa. In short order, actors across…
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Germany’s space agency shifts its 3D printing resources to producing protective medical equipment
DLR, German’s space agency and NASA equivalent, is doing what it can to support the global shortages of personal protective…
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A new type of COVID-19 test now approved for use could help with frontline diagnostics
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is moving much more quickly to grant special ’emergency use authorization’ to equipment…
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