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From April 15, victims will be able to go to the Someplace Safe website and find a chat now button that will connect them directly to a domestic violence specialist. This will help women who are monitored, stalked, or never left alone calling from home to reach for help by texting.
Read MoreToys’R’Us Canada offers Stay-at-Home Play Packs, exclusive online resources with YouTube content, and the Wash Your Hands Challenge - a dance-along and scrub-along song on TikTok, to help keeping kids and families stay active and entertained during lockdown.
Read MoreThe award-winning distillery known for its whiskey and gin recently delivered over 100 gallons of its free hand sanitizer to Chicago Police and O’Hare Airport’s air traffic controllers, produced in only one week.
Read MoreFour graduate students remotely operated "newme" robots accepting graduation certificates on behalf of the graduating cohort. The newme robots, developed by ANA Holdings, had a display screen showing the faces of the students while the robots were dressed in graduation gowns.
Read MoreThe new course is designed to keep people company while stuck at home and use the time to create a healthy new habit of mindfulness, which has been shown to reduce stress and anxiety while boosting the immune system.
Read MoreKids everywhere can instantly stream the collection of stories on Audible, including titles across six different languages, to stay entertained and educated during lockdown.
Read MoreConstant Aviation is working around the clock to treat business and private aircraft with MicroShield 360, an FDA-approved antimicrobial shield that kills 99.99 percent of bacteria.
Read MoreUber is pledging to deliver free meals to first responders and healthcare workers on the front line of COVID across the U.S. and Canada. The meals will be delivered to medical workers and first responders in coordination with local, state and provincial governments.
Read MoreSummersalt opened up a free text message hotline, a ‘Joycast’, that will allow people to reach out if they need something to lift their mood during isolation. Someone from Summersalt’s ‘customer happiness’ team will answer by sending over a 10-minute meditation video, self-care ideas, or a puppy GIF.
Read MoreRosebud, an AI face generator, wants people to upload their profile pictures to automatically fit a mask to them. The initiative was developed to support the #Masks4All movement.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreSeveral 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.
Read MoreSiedentopf'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.
Read MoreTo 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.
Read MoreResearchers 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.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreIn 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.
Read MoreMayo 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.
Read MoreFoward 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.
Read MoreFocus 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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