by admin | Mar 23, 2020 | Management and Production Software
Source: Microsoft The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention introduced a bot over the weekend to help people make decisions about what to do if they have potential symptoms of COVID-19. Called Clara, the “coronavirus self-checker” was created in...
by admin | Mar 22, 2020 | Management and Production Software
Source: Microsoft During today’s White House coronavirus task force press conference, President Trump announced the launch of a new public/private consortium to “unleash the power of American supercomputing resources.” The members of this consortium...
by admin | Mar 22, 2020 | Management and Production Software
Source: Microsoft The tech industry is mobilizing its considerable resources to attempt to support efforts against the growing global coronavirus pandemic. Over the weekend, the CEOs of Amazon, Apple and Microsoft all shared updates regarding some aspects of their...
by admin | Mar 19, 2020 | Management and Production Software
Source: Microsoft Today, Slack, a popular internal chat application, announced that it added 7,000 new customers between February 1st and March 18. That is 47 days. For context, Slack added 5,000 customers total in its preceding quarter, making its recent customer...
by admin | Mar 17, 2020 | Management and Production Software
Source: Microsoft U.S. government officials are currently in discussion with a number of tech companies, including Facebook and Google, around how data from cell phones might provide methods for combatting the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, according to a new...
by admin | Mar 16, 2020 | Management and Production Software
Source: Microsoft In an unprecedented move to reassure customers and flag the potential for misinformation about COVID-19 on their platforms, all of the major social media companies and their parent corporations issued a joint statement on their efforts. “We...
by admin | Mar 16, 2020 | Management and Production Software
Source: Microsoft During a White House briefing on Monday detailing new recommendations regarding public health from the administration’s coronavirus task force and the CDC, President Trump was asked by a member of the press corps about reports that the White...
by admin | Mar 16, 2020 | Management and Production Software
Source: Microsoft Service, a tool that helped you get compensation when there are flight delays and find lower hotel rates after you’ve already booked, today said it would shut down its service. The company, which launched in 2015, says it faced a fundraising...
by admin | Mar 16, 2020 | Management and Production Software
Source: Microsoft GitHub, the developer repository owned by Microsoft, made a little deal of its own this morning when it bought JavaScript packaging vendor npm for an undisclosed amount. As GitHub CEO Nat Friedman wrote in a blog post announcing the deal, npm is a...
by admin | Mar 16, 2020 | Management and Production Software
Source: Microsoft Microsoft Teams is down. Perfect timing, as some might say, given that pretty much everyone who uses Microsoft Teams who can work from home is currently not working at all. The technology giant left a cryptic message — which at least is more than its...
