Here you will find all the articles with the tag: COVID-19.
Jeff Clarke, the COO of Dell, said that about 60% of the 165,000 Dell employees would not return to the office regularly, even after the pandemic. During the Q2 earnings conference, the executive said the business had completed its 171st day of working remotely. He continued to add that this new... Read more
4 years ago
IBM has joined forces with Workday to help companies resume their work amid the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. Their plan is similar in concept to the Salesforce and Siemens partnership in June, which aimed to offer mobile boarding passes. The combination will leverage IBM’s Watson Works tool that... Read more
4 years ago
The analyst firm Gartner reports that global IT spending will drop 7.3% this year, with Covid-19 and the lockdown hitting the economy hard. Their predictions state that IT spending this year will peak at $3.5 trillion, with all sectors facing a decline. The hardest-hit market will be the device ... Read more
4 years ago
The Collective and Augmented Intelligence Against Covid-19 (CAIAC), is a newly formed global alliance of think tanks that are working to deliver a platform, driven by AI to curb the effects of Covid-19 on the economy and public health. The aim is to fight the virus's effects by way of advising p... Read more
4 years ago
A team of researchers has come up with an algorithm that can be used to analyse Google searches and tweets to forecast COVID-19 outbreaks. The team, steered by Harvard scientists Nicole Kogan and Mauricio Santillana, presented the algorithm in a journal submitted last Thursday to the arXiv scien... Read more
4 years ago
Perhaps, your employers have become a little more caring during the time of the pandemic. At least, they appreciate that working from home isn't like taking a walk in the park for their employees. They understand you may have a small apartment or kids. Or maybe even both. Undoubtedly, they are awar... Read more
4 years ago
Based on a recent study, 33 percent of business leaders believe they didn’t do enough in terms of communicating with their clients during the coronavirus pandemic. They argue that this resulted in damage to customer trust as well as their brand. This is according to the research conducted and ... Read more
4 years ago
Here at Techzine, we have often written about the implications of the coronacrisis on the workplace. However, we had not yet discussed what it truly means for IT professionals. Mendix recently approached us to talk about the subject, what seemed like an excellent opportunity. The low-code vendor to... Read more
4 years ago
The challenge facing the researchers who are trying to find a treatment for COVID-19 is scale. There is a huge need for computing power at scale. Protein folding is the key to understanding how the viruses attach themselves to healthy cells, for infections to occur. The problem is that modelli... Read more
4 years ago
To meet demand during the Covid-19 pandemic, Microsoft has made some changes to how they run their cloud services. Since the start of the pandemic, Microsoft officials have been giving updates on how the company has been working to increase cloud capacity. On June 16th, they shared specifics ab... Read more
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