Overjet, a startup focused on using Artificial Intelligence to help dentists and insurance companies understand dental scans, announced that it has raised USD 7.85 million in a seed round. Overjet’s CEO Wardah Inam an MIT Ph.D. in electrical engineering and…
Novant Health and California based UAV delivery startup, Zipline have launched drone delivery of personal protective gear and medical equipment to hospitals in North Carolina. The firm will be allowed to use drones on two specified routes after the Federal Aviation Administration granted…
Amazon’s Lab126, the hardware group known for developing the company’s Kindle e-readers, Fire tablets, and Echo smart speakers, is now working on the company’s COVID-19 testing technology. Each team at Amazon’s Lab126 is taking the project seriously and hoping to…
Quidel Corporation, a major American manufacturer of diagnostic healthcare solutions, has announced that they have received emergency use authorization for a COVID-19 antigen test. The test will be primarily used in hospitals and emergency rooms for the rapid detection of SARS-CoV-2 in…
Italian scientists claim to have successfully developed a vaccine that can neutralize coronavirus that in human cells. The breakthrough made by scientists at Lazzaro Spallanzani National Institute for Infectious Diseases in Rome, Italy will likely be the most noticeable progress…
US Pharma major, Gilead Sciences, has announced that it is in talks and some of the leading Indian drug companies to produce its patented antiviral drug Remdesivir. It drug has recently received US Food & Drug Administration authorization for emergency…
An Amazon employee who worked at its fulfillment center in Staten Island, New York died due to Covid-19. This is the facility where the fulfillment workers have been calling for better safety measures against coronavirus. “We are deeply saddened by…
AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon have tied up with iHeartMedia to deliver nearly 40,000 phone chargers for free to COVID-19 patients in the hospitals, says T-Mobile’s press release. T-Mobile says it has already donated 20,000 chargers to hospitals and Verizon says…
Twitter has announced that the company has updated its COVID-19 policies. The new policies will require users remove misleading tweets that make unverified claims that “incite people to action and cause widespread panic, social unrest or large-scale disorder.” The changes…
Google has confirmed that it will use the Google Play Services infrastructure to update Android phones with the upcoming COVID-19 contact tracing system it is building in collaboration with Apple. It should ensure that more Android phones will actually get…
