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The shop is now selling its popular boba drinks to-go and DIY boba kits that include ingredients needed to make the sweet drink at home. MILK+T also tries to support its community by offering lunch for people who might not be able to stop by or to afford it.
Read MoreThe app has a feature that helps users earn SSG coins (StepSetGo’s in-app currency) for every indoor step taken. The app makers introduced a series of challenges that encourage greater engagement during lockdown. There are seven types of challenges spread over 21 days to win more SSG coins.
Read MoreIn mid-March, Allbirds announced that it would be donating free Wool Runner shoes to healthcare workers. In four days, the company donated $500,000 worth of shoes, which is about 5,000 pairs. Now the company is giving shoppers the option to donate a pair of Allbirds shoes for half-price.
Read MoreWorldwide, chefs are creating dishes that resemble the novel virus, meant to make people stuck at home laugh, but also at helping businesses stay afloat. O’doodleDoo’s Donuts, for example, located in Suffolk, Virginia, is making COVID-sprinkle donuts.
Read MoreAldi and McDonald's have agreed the discounter can take over staff from restaurants the fast-food chain had to close due to the COVID lockdown. The agreement is valid for a limited period only and afterwards all those who apply can simply return to their jobs at the US fast-food chain.
Read MoreJet2 has donated thousands of its in-flight snack boxes after flights were grounded to help UK charities support the elderly and the homeless in Greater Manchester and Yorkshire.
Read MoreSome US parents are discovering that the software they use to organise and plan their workdays and work projects can also help manage their kids homeschooling activities while they are quarantined at home.
Read MoreThe JTB uses its digital platform to throw virtual dance parties weekly over Instagram Live, but will also feature cooking demos and wellness sessions like yoga and other relaxing self-care practices for people in quarantine.
Read MoreThe app, developed by NHSX, the health service’s digital transformation arm of the NHS, would instantly trace close contacts of people carrying COVID and advise them to self-isolate.
Read MorePacific Ballroom Dance’s program leaders are now holding online classes for kids and adults. The studio is also making plans for a groundbreaking ballroom dance concert this spring, conducted virtually.
Read MoreThe ‘COVID-19 Preparedness’ app enables patients to self-screen and healthcare volunteers to triage using smartphones, broadening the capacity for emergency response in rural or underserved communities. The app can also help track the spread and containment of the virus.
Read MoreAI Biokinetic Technologies and Aspen Clinical Research are hoping to get a final approval for their COVID AI 19 app which uses AI to give COVID test results, thanks to a thermal temperature reading, an audio analysis and an X-ray analysis of the lungs, all on your phone.
Read MoreThe CEO of Lotus has offered the UK government its Hethel facility in Norfolk, England, to use it as a make-shift hospital in the war against COVID.
Read MoreDaniel Ahmadizadeh and Christopher Smeder designed Quarantine Together, an app for virtual dating. Every day at 6 p.m., the app asks its users whether they washed their hands. If they say yes, they are introduced to another user by text, and will be offered a link to video chat after 15 minutes.
Read MoreMain Page fills its windows each week with different merchandise for people who want to get out and window shop from their cars or take a walk outside of their home. Customers who are interested in items can call or email the store and arrange for a touch-free pickup. Items can be taken home and tried on before finalising a purchase.
Read MoreUber Eats is teaming up with French supermarket group Carrefour for a new delivery service aimed at helping people stuck at home buy essential goods and food. Berlin-based online marketplace Delivery Hero has also made changes to its operations spanning more than 40 countries to help get groceries to customers.
Read MoreMattel launches the Playroom, a free online resource which features activities and content from the company’s portfolio of brands including American Girl, Barbie, Fisher-Price, Hot Wheels, Thomas & Friends and more.
Read MoreThe website launched by caretaking and mental health online blog Girl’s Night In is full of activities, recommendations, and other ideas to help people stay in and take care of themselves and others, with a daily updates.
Read MoreThe ‘Free Public Support Group to Manage Coronavirus Anxiety’ is a free therapist-led Facebook group by US online therapy platform Talkspace that can provide support to anyone struggling with anxiety during COVID.
Read MoreDylan Coonrad, the creative director at Cannon Design wonders what it would look like if the universally recognisable street signs were no longer applicable. And he proposes new ideas of street signs to navigate public spaces in times of social distancing.
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