To address the shortage of hospital rooms during COVID, Jupe Health is offering mobile shelters that can be produced at around 1/30th the cost of a standard hospital room and shipped anywhere using existing logistics infrastructure.
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The coffee giant is offering free coffee to health care workers until May 3rd. This offer is available at participating Starbucks stores throughout the US.
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This food delivery company is packaging its food with an extra sheet of paper that unfolds and protects the food and its recipients. Meituan is also donating these shields to medical workers in Wuhan.
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Mask Match is a peer-to-peer platform that enables people with spare N95 or surgical masks at home to ship them to medical workers in the US that are in dire need of them - without having to leave their houses.
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The UK Government asked Dyson to produce 10,000 ventilators to help hospitals in the country during the pandemic. Dyson designed and built a new ventilator just ten days after, and is now manufacturing the product in large quantities, donating 5,000 extra units.
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A group of kids in a Japanese elementary school found a creative workaround to attend their graduation ceremony whilst their school is shutdown: building and holding their own ceremony on Minecraft.
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The third-party extension for Netflix enables people to watch the same movie or series and chat about it remotely, creating a communal experience during the quarantine period. This extension is free but only available using Google's Chrome browser.
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Using its shop windows to promote hand-washing guidelines and luring in people with messages so they do wash their hands, Lush is helping people across the UK to tackle COVID.
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The company recently announced it will, together with its hosts, help provide housing to 100,000 healthcare professionals, relief workers, and first responders worldwide during the crisis.
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Customers of the Scottish brewery and distillery can place beer orders (at a discount) via the BrewDog Hop Drop app and collect their orders at all UK BrewDog bars. The service includes bottles, cans, draft beer fills in growlers as well as any item from that bar’s food, spirits and wines menu.
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The body care company EO Products is shipping 200,000 hand sanitisers to hubs across the US that Lyft will then provide to its drivers, at no cost to them.
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To fight COVID, Nvidia is asking PC gamers to download an application that links computers into an international network using distributed processing power to chew through massive computing tasks.
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Woolworths will open exclusively for the elderly and disabled from 7am until 8am, Tuesday to Friday. These dedicated shopping hours are meant to help these groups to avoid panic buying.
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The community kitchens of the renowned Spanish-American chef will be operated mostly by volunteers out of the restaurants’ side doors, offering only takeout services.
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The government of South Korea asks travelers to the country to download a self-quarantine app to curb the spread of COVID. The GPS-based app helps monitor people self-quarantined at home, by for example setting off an alarm if people leave their designated location.
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The personal health hardware-maker is launching a study with the University of California in San Francisco (UCSF) to see if its smart ring device could help detect early signs that might indicate the onset of Covid-19.
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The AVATOUR remote presence platform enables business people to visit and inspect facilities remotely in real-time thanks to the use of Insta360’s 360-degree cameras, providing a substitute for travel during the lockdown.
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The delivery app Meituan Dianping has started deploying autonomous vehicles to send grocery orders to customers in one Beijing district. Other Chinese e-commerce companies like JD.com have announced the use of robots to deliver medical supplies to hospitals and groceries to communities in Wuhan.
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The architect and an international team of experts developed CURA (Connected Units for Respiratory Ailments), intensive-care pods specifically designed for COVID patients. The design is available as open-source online and the first units are currently under construction in Milan.
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Chatbot app DoNotPay launched a new service to help you delay your rent, credit card, or utility bill payments. The company opened a new chatbot that requests waivers and payment extensions to both landlords and companies, using relevant local and state laws.
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