Something Positive helps people feel more optimistic by spreading the latest good news and success stories around COVID.
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By entering details about your consumption of toilet paper - visits to the toilet per day, wipes per trip, your number of toilet paper rolls left and the number of people in the house - the toilet calculator will tell you how much toilet paper you need for your quarantine.
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The initiative, the Covid-19 Health Literacy Project, has already translated essential COVID information about prevention and treatment options, among other issues, in over 35 languages, including Navajo, Oromo (spoken by an ethnic group in Ethiopia), and Swahili.
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The MIT team created a ventilator design affordable and easily able to replicate that costs approximately $500. The team will share the design online so that companies can recreate the lifesaving device for hospitals around the world.
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This tool developed in partnership with The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) enables people to know more about COVID and to understand what to do depending on their symptoms, after answering a few questions.
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Epic is transforming its former headquarters in Madison, Wisconsin, into a child care centre open 24 hours a day and seven days a week for kids whose parents are working local hospitals treating patients with COVID - for free.
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Becky Wass from Cornwall (UK) created a postcard that allows people to offer help to their neighbours, with spaces for a name, address, phone number and possible tasks that the recipient might need help with, including “picking up shopping” and “a friendly phone call”.
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Alibaba's research institute said they had trained the AI model with sample data from more than 5,000 confirmed cases, and that it can complete its disease recognition process within 20 seconds with an accuracy of up to 96%.
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Several sports data companies now offer 'virtual' sports betting products powered by AI algorithms. The ATP Tennis Tour is now partnering with IMG Arena on the creation of an officially licensed tennis product with the hope that gamblers will be seduced by the authenticity.
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Any craft brewery in the world can download the open-source recipe and the label to join the All Together project, provided they donate a portion of the proceeds to an organisation that benefits hospitality workers.
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Workers from Naval Dockyard in Andhra Pradesh's Visakhapatnam designed a 'Portable Multi-feed Oxygen Manifold' which enables one oxygen bottle to supply six patients concurrently by using a six-way radial header fitted to a single cylinder.
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The Tamil Nadu government approved and is sending out drones of Indian startup Garuda Aerospace which, among others, has disinfected the Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital.
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A Kids Book About COVID-19 is a free eBook that helps kids and grownups everywhere in the world understand and learn more about COVID.
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The so-called Support Local initiative enables people to buy gift cards online to their favourite local businesses that can be used later to offer them immediate financial support.
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This new slack community enables book lovers around the world to discuss what they are reading during the quarantine. Each book has its own Slack channel, so it is easy to find other readers, share thoughts and questions.
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Pearl Jam's tour is cancelled due to COVID, but fans can still listen to their new album, Gigaton, with 30-second previews of all 15 tracks available when calling a hotline at 585-207-3275.
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LVMH converts three of its perfume factories, normally used to produce Christian Dior and LVMH perfumes, to make hand sanitiser.
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This rebranding comes in support of the New Yorkers that are respecting social distancing measures. The magazine website is now highlighting stories to keep people updated with the situation in the city.
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As cash money has been flagged as a hazard with regards to spreading COVID, startups and governments in Africa are setting up measures to shift a larger number of payment transactions towards mobile payments.
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Tom Goddard, a programmer at the University of California, San Francisco, has created with his colleagues a molecular vizualisation program called ChimeraX that enables to manipulate 3D models of the COVID virus with a depth-sensing camera and a VR headset.
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