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Governments around the world are now considering different technologies to trace the coronavirus outbreak. Smartphones are one of those technologies, but then privacy and personal data comes into question. To contain infectious disease outbreaks there has to be testing, tracing, and isolation. So with a smartphone tracing app it could make things a little easier […]
The days of the Classic Cartoon “The Jetson’s” has been here. The use of video conferencing has become the new meeting room to get work done this days. Now, here comes drone delivery. A Florida retirement community will doing test runs starting in May. Both CVS and UPS plan on using drones to deliver […]
Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft talks about reopening the United States and how to get the schools going. The billionaire also gives his thoughts on the economy opening up via CNN with Fareed Zakaria. Gates gives an estimation on when we will know more on schools opening and how we will go about opening […]
Xerox Holdings Corporation has good news for Rochester residents and workers in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic: Xerox has partnered with Vortran Medical Technology to mass-produce Vortran’s FDA-approved Airway Pressure Monitor (APM-Plus) and disposable GO2Vent ventilator at its Rochester facility. Vortran has struggled in recent weeks to meet production demands for these devices at […]
The Better Business Bureau has revealed that hackers can use social media posts about graduating from high school or other academic institutions to gain access to people’s various online accounts. Schools throughout the country have closed to stop the spread of SARS-CoV-2, resulting in many students who were supposed to graduate this year posting their […]
Former NBA player and Clark Atlanta University men’s basketball head coach, George Lynch, and entrepreneur Tracey Pennywell have announced their plans to donate at least 6,000 computers to Historically Black College and University (HBCU) student athletes via a new non-profit that they formed called HBCU Heroes. “Many HBCU student-athletes were using school resources, such as […]
As the weather changes becoming warmer we still have to continue to practice social distancing while we are out. That means we should not be congregating at parks. Earlier this week it was announced in Monroe County we are slipping when it comes to social distancing and staying home. Monroe County Executive Adam Bello said […]
There is a company that is tracking how well we are doing with the stay at home orders across the state and country. The company called Unacast tracks human mobility data. In other words they use GPS location from our smartphones and other devices. The social distancing scorecard grades are A-F. It goes off of […]
Right now this is the time to be playing games. To be honest that’s about all you can do. But what if that was taken away from you too? Microsoft’s Xbox Live service was down over the weekend. This is no time for shut downs, with the spread of the coronavirus COVID-19. Schools have […]
On Thursday, March 12, 2020, Facebook and Twitter both revealed that they had shut down accounts connected to Russian parties that were using the platforms to interfere with elections by targeting black social media users with fake news and divisive messages. Posts, pages, and tweets were typically about civil rights and race topics, but also […]
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