{"id":452,"date":"2020-04-28T03:09:48","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T03:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.legendshub.com\/blog\/?p=452"},"modified":"2020-04-28T03:10:28","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T03:10:28","slug":"technology-news-for-the-week-4-27-2020-legendshub-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legendshub.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/28\/technology-news-for-the-week-4-27-2020-legendshub-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Technology News for the week (4\/27\/2020) \u2013 Legendshub Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- Quick Adsense WordPress Plugin: http:\/\/quickadsense.com\/ -->\n<div class=\"2c935cf620b701aabbb7cc90bbf4023c\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<script>\r\n  (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({\r\n    google_ad_client: \"ca-pub-5554449970657557\",\r\n    enable_page_level_ads: true\r\n  });\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Hello Guys, Welcome to Legends hub Blog. Top technology news for the week are as follows. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>In COVID-19 Tech for Nurses, Baby food &amp; Online\nDairy <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some tech companies working hard to do good during COVID-19:\n&#8211; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>Under my Umbrella\u2014 <\/strong>Umbrella a startup that provides services to seniors, is now recruiting thousands of volunteers to deliver essential items to the elderly that can\u2019t leave their homes due to shelter-in-place orders. The deliveries include contact-free groceries and prescriptions. The New York-based startup connects seniors with local providers and began a volunteer platform to connect seniors to local volunteers. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>Mental health for nurses&#8211; <\/strong>Trusted Health, which connects nurses\nto jobs and career resources, partnered with The College of Nursing at The Ohio\nState University to create a program focused on mental health and well-being of\nnurses on the frontlines right now. In the last six weeks, over 400,000 nurses\nsigned up<strong>. <\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>Live captioning during science class&#8211;\n<\/strong>Remote education is\nno joke so Rev.com, a voice-to-text service, is providing its transcription\nservices for free to K-12 educators. In a statement the company said that the\nlive-captioning can be integrated into Zoom, and could assist students who\nstruggle with English as a second language. The service is free for the\nremainder of the school year. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"891\" height=\"566\" src=\"http:\/\/www.legendshub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Maases-1.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"453\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/www.legendshub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Maases-1.png\" data-link=\"http:\/\/www.legendshub.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=453\" class=\"wp-image-453\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.legendshub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Maases-1.png 891w, https:\/\/www.legendshub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Maases-1-300x191.png 300w, https:\/\/www.legendshub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Maases-1-768x488.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 891px) 100vw, 891px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>Coaching for first-generation and low-income students&#8211; <\/strong>Thousands of students now have to\nfind a new source of food, housing and employment. Some can\u2019t return to their\nhomes because flights are either unsafe or too expensive. So Beyond 12, a\nnonprofit organization that focuses on college completion, is raising funds to\nstart COVID-19 Virtual College Coaching Corps. The support program will focus on\nthe emotional, social and academic support for students at risk for not\ngraduating. The company says that in the past two weeks it raised $300K, and is\nnow looking to hire 20 new coaches and reach 20,000 students. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>Isolated? You\u2019re not alone&#8211; <\/strong>Astra Labs, a nonprofit software company, has created a website to help people cope with the impact of COVID-19: Isolatednotalone.com.\u00a0 This site answers the hard questions that arise from the pandemic: I just found out a loved one died from COVID-19, what can I do next? What are the options for a funeral? What happens if they die at home? What should my next steps be? <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>Contact-less solution for restaurants, for free&#8211; <\/strong>To skip sharing screens and pens, San\nFrancisco-based CardFree, which was founded in 2012, is giving three months of\nits mobile and online ordering software to restaurants for free. The deal is\nfor small and medium-sized businesses, and CardFree says the software \u201ccuts out\nthe middleman of third-party delivery apps.\u201d <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>Calling all science influencers of Instagram&#8211; <\/strong>Seed, a Venice-based startup that\ncreates science-based probiotics, has launched a free science course taught via\nInstagram. The venture capital-backed company is teaching about a confusing\nsubject that is now more important than ever: how microbes work amid COVID-19.\nThe course is six weeks. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>Spoon-fed goodness&#8211; <\/strong>Little Spoon, a direct-to-consumer\nbaby food company backed by Serena Williams, is providing free or discounted\nmeals to parents struggling to feed their kids. The company has donated\n$100,000 in Little Spoon meals to Feeding America food banks, and is providing\ndiscounts to healthcare workers. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>A forum for feelings&#8211; <\/strong>Now&amp;Me created a discussion forum\nfor people to share their highs and lows with others, with the option to post\nanonymously. The co-founder of Now&amp;Me, Drishti Gupta, says that \u201cwe believe\nthat feeling better starts with knowing it\u2019s okay to not be okay.\u201d<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>Crowd-sourced map to feed people&#8211; <\/strong>The pandemic has stress-tested food insecurity and the hunger crisis around the world. WhyHunger, a charity focused on the human right to nutritious food, partnered with 10x management and its software team to create an interactive map of free meal sites across the United States. Software engineers Greg Sadetsky and Colin Wren helped create the crowd-sourced and open sourced map.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Polish Startup Shares Affordable Ventilators techno\nwith India <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ventilade.org a Polish research startup is sharing its\nopen-source software to build vents by 3D at a fraction of a cost of regular\nmachines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;The Covid-19 pandemic is a global crisis the\nvirus will have to be defeated everywhere, said Adam Burakowski, Poland\u2019s\nambassador to India, who made news when he put out a video in Hindi, thanking\nthe \u2018Indian Medical Service.\u2019&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; He\nfurther adds,\u201d I consider the work of the Indian medical service to be very\nimportant. So, I felt I needed to praise them for their commitment. India is a\nhuge country and these healthcare workers are in the frontline and are doing an\nincredible job.\u201d<\/p>\n<!-- Quick Adsense WordPress Plugin: http:\/\/quickadsense.com\/ -->\n<div class=\"2c935cf620b701aabbb7cc90bbf4023c\" data-index=\"100\" style=\"\">\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"486\" src=\"http:\/\/www.legendshub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Maases-2-1024x486.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-454\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.legendshub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Maases-2-1024x486.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.legendshub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Maases-2-300x142.png 300w, https:\/\/www.legendshub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Maases-2-768x365.png 768w, https:\/\/www.legendshub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Maases-2.png 1026w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re glad that the\nIndian government has opened paracetamol exports. We would like to access both\nhydroxychloroquine (HCQ) and paracetamol from India,\u201d Burakowski said. Poland,\nhe said has evacuated almost 900 of its nationals from India, by using Polish\nairlines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the first\nIndian company to use the software of Ventilade to produce ventilators is\nBengaluru-based Rail Wheel Factory (RWF) which is awaiting clearances for its\nin-house design using this software.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The\ncompany tweeted, \u201cRWF has developed in-house prototype #CheapVentilator based\non #OpenSource design #VENTILAID, using mainly 3D printed parts.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Next phase of development includes\nincorporation of micro controller.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Burakowski said, the design is such that what cannot be printed can be available locally, which gives a lot of leeway to improvisation. The cost is as low as $45. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Tyrant Tech Used by Russia For Corona <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Russia under President Vladimir Putin has pioneered\nauthoritarian tech that is able to be firewalled from the rest of the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Covid-19 pandemic is now giving Russian authorities an\nopportunity to test new powers and technology and the country&#8217;s privacy and\nfree-speech advocates worry that the government is trying to building sweeping\nnew surveillance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Perhaps the main arsenal for fighting coronavirus is,\nMoscow&#8217;s massive facial-recognition system with originally prompting the\nunusual public backlash, with privacy advocates filing lawsuits over unlawful\nsurveillance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last week, Moscow police claimed to have caught and fined 200\npeople who violated quarantine and self-isolation using this facial recognition\neven though it was for less than half a minute but they were still picked up by\na camera. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We want there to be even more cameras so that that\nthere is no dark corner or side street left,&#8221; said Oleg Baranov, Moscow&#8217;s\npolice chief, in a recent briefing, adding that the service is currently\nworking to install an additional 9,000 cameras.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The system has also been used to analyze the social networks\nof those who have or are suspected of having coronavirus. And then there&#8217;s the\nuse of geolocation to track coronavirus carriers. Epidemiologists see tracking\nand data-crunching as one important tool for tracking and localizing outbreaks,\nbut Russia has taken a distinctive approach.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And\nsuch measures have prompted little public debate as Russia is far from being\nthe only country in the world that increased surveillance capabilities to curb\nthe spread of the virus. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"796\" height=\"529\" src=\"http:\/\/www.legendshub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/indiaair1-jumbo-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-455\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.legendshub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/indiaair1-jumbo-3.jpg 796w, https:\/\/www.legendshub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/indiaair1-jumbo-3-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.legendshub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/indiaair1-jumbo-3-768x510.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 796px) 100vw, 796px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In Israel, the Shin Bet security service has shifted its\npowerful surveillance program to retrace the movements of coronavirus patients\nor suspected carriers. The mechanism is similar to that used in Russia &#8212; phone\nand credit card data are used for mapping, and health officials must then alert\nand quarantine people who were within 2 meters, for 10 minutes or more, of\nsomeone infected with the virus, according to the country&#8217;s Health Ministry. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In South Korea, the government used the same data from credit card transactions, phone geolocation and surveillance footage to give detailed information on coronavirus patients, without identifying them by name, according to a government website. The result was a map where people can see if they were in close proximity to a coronavirus carrier. Meanwhile, Russia plans to expand its existing systems as the number of coronavirus cases grows. But Moscow&#8217;s system of Big Brother surveillance is far from perfect. Outside Russia&#8217;s capital, facial recognition is usually limited to airports and railway stations, but the government says it is preparing to tap into other surveillance tools in an effort to further map out the virus patterns.<\/p>\n\n<!-- Quick Adsense WordPress Plugin: http:\/\/quickadsense.com\/ -->\n<div class=\"2c935cf620b701aabbb7cc90bbf4023c\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<script>\r\n  (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({\r\n    google_ad_client: \"ca-pub-5554449970657557\",\r\n    enable_page_level_ads: true\r\n  });\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">Hello Guys, Welcome to Legends hub Blog. Top technology news for the week are as follows. 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