The platform matches students that need help and those who want to support others. Students are available for all subjects and give support with various tools and resources such as chatbots.
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Several NBA athletes, such as Utah Jazz All-Star Donovan Mitchell and four-time All-Star DeMarcus Cousins are set to play in the 16-players tournament on NBA2K, a popular online NBA game on the Playstation.
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Siedentopf's project ‘How-To Survive A Deadly Global Virus’ suggests in 12 photographic portraits a variety of objects that could be used as alternatives to face masks, like vegetables, pants and bras, or a sneaker that is tied around the face with shoelaces.
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To ensure that the patients with serious conditions other than COVID can still see their loved ones, an Amsterdam events agency suggests the 'Quarantainer': a mobile meeting place where there is no risk of infection, with a glass wall in the middle and microphones in both rooms so they can hear each other well.
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Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have begun mass-producing disposable face shields for medical workers fighting COVID, which come flat-packed and can be folded into a three-dimensional structure when needed for use.
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The Biosensor Patch 1AX, affixed on the chest area, will record temperature, respiration rate, ECG trace, heart rate and movement, in real-time. The data can then be sent wirelessly from the patch to an app on the user’s phone, where it is displayed and analysed.
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In India, Ninjacart provides essential fruits and vegetables to orphanages, old-age homes and slum areas at subsidised rates, and partners with non-governmental organisations to expand this initiative.
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Mayo Clinic partners with the Jacksonville Transportation Authority to deploy autonomous shuttles that transport medical supplies and COVID tests from the hospital's drive-thru testing location to a processing laboratory on the hospital's campus.
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Foward adapts to a need for remote health services to support non-COVID patients during lockdown. Patients get a kit consisting of an EKG, a connected thermometer, and a pulse oximeter delivered to their home, which provides a whole new level of remote care.
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Focus Features will livestream films exclusively on its Facebook page every Monday in April for free. The four films being livestreamed are Gosford Park, Moonrise Kingdom, Mallrats, and My Summer of Love. Each livestream will include a link to donate to the Entertainment Industry Foundation’s COVID Response Fund.
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Professor Curran is currently waiting for FDA approval of his innovative waterproofing solution created for the N95 masks, that could protect medical workers from small droplets of COVID.
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American Giant is part of a coalition of 11 brands that includes Hanes, Fruit of the Loom, and Los Angeles Apparel. These US brands are set to start manufacturing personal protective equipment for healthcare workers on the frontline.
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Developers in Singapore undertook a huge effort to build a comprehensive app for contact tracing and now want to help others by making it open source. The app helps identify people who have had close contact with a COVID patient to prevent spreading the infection further.
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The Dutch hairdresser Bella Rossa posted a video on Facebook in which she can be seen attending to a client shielded behind the umbrella doing business, as usual, while maintaining social distancing measures.
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The London Baker, a bakery in Lewisville's Castle Hills Village Shops has introduced two new Quarantine Cakes shaped like toilet paper rolls with the nicknames "#Surviving2020" and "Survival Kit." And it is not the only bakery doing so: toilet paper cakes have become a national phenomenon in the UK.
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Thanks to Decathlon's drawing of its snorkeling Easybreath mask, Isinnova was able to 3D-print a valve adapter that successfully turns the masks into emergency ventilators. The company shared the blueprint of the design for free online.
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To answer the shortage of medical equipment across the country, the small manufacturing company in Barneveld is starting to produce face shields that will soon be delivered to US hospitals and also be available on Amazon.
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The Philadelphia Department of Health secured a contract making Pacify accessible to all city residents immediately through at least July 1, for free, to ease any questions or concerns new parents may be experiencing during lockdown.
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Students from colleges including the University of Pennsylvania, Berklee School of Music, and Oberlin College are recreating physical buildings on their campuses by designing 1:1-scale replicas within the popular Minecraft’s game universe.
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The free-to-download app is designed to make it easy to self-report whether or not people feel well and what symptoms they are experiencing. It also asks for information about being tested for COVID and whether they are in self-isolation.
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