Here you will find all the articles with the tag: corona virus.
In a letter, Amazon top executive Jeff Bezos writes that extra jobs will be created at Amazon. According to Bezos, because of the corona crisis a lot more is being ordered, which in the short term will result in 100,000 extra jobs at Amazon. According to the top man, these jobs can be filled by the... Read more
4 years ago
Microsoft will prioritise healthcare and necessary government services (such as the fire department) when cloud service Azure encounters capacity problems. These professional groups are also seen as crucial during the coronavrius outbreak. In a blog post, Microsoft discusses problems it may enco... Read more
4 years ago
President Trump has announced the launch of a consortium with major US tech companies, with the aim of using supercomputers to combat the corona virus. The main members are the White House, the Department of Energy and IBM. Tech giants such as Google, Amazon and Microsoft are also contributing, as ... Read more
4 years ago
In an effort to speed up testing for the coronavirus, Amazon Web Services is making 20 million dollars available to organisations researching testing methods. In the current situation, it often takes more than a full day for a patient's test results to arrive. Research institutes and private com... Read more
4 years ago
According to Microsoft, Microsoft Teams gained up to 12 million extra users in a week because the number of homeworkers is drastically increasing due to the coronavirus. Slack, the main competitor, reported that some 7,000 additional paying customers were added in the period from February 1. Tea... Read more
4 years ago
Public cloud platform Alibaba Cloud provides medical staff and researchers with various AI tools, free of charge, in the fight against the COVID-19 virus. The tools should help provide faster diagnostics and more data-based insights. According to the public cloud provider, this is a trial versio... Read more
4 years ago
With an approaching deadline on which support for Windows 10 version 1709 would stop in mid-April 2020, Windows announces a significant postponement of execution. The version of the OS for Enterprises, Education and IoT will continue to receive security updates for another six months. According ... Read more
4 years ago
According to sources from The Washington Post, major tech companies are in talks with the US government to use location data to stop the spread of the corona virus COVID-19. Such measures would have clear benefits in terms of controlling the spread of the virus, but at the same time would set a ... Read more
4 years ago
Hackers are currently targeting hospitals and healthcare providers with ransomware attacks, while many of those institutions are struggling with the COVID-19 corona virus pandemic. SiliconAngle reports that a health district in Illinois and a hospital in the Czech Republic have been targeted by ... Read more
4 years ago
Xerox's attempts to take over HP, which in the meantime turned into a hostile takeover, have been halted until further notice. The company's attention could be better focused on the problems surrounding COVID-19. According to Xerox, the escalating COVID-19 pandemic makes other issues more import... Read more
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