- Virtual Influencers Make Real Money While Covid Locks Down Human Stars - The pandemic isn’t a problem when you’re computer-generated. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-10-29/lil-miquela-lol-s-seraphine-virtual-influencers-make-more-real-money-than-ever 9 comments technology
- United States COVID computational modeling analysis identifies spatial clusters of under vaccination and characterizes county-level progress over time https://academic.oup.com/aje/article/191/10/1792/6574722#374675581 22 comments science
- You can donate your computer's unused processing power to help scientists with simulations via Folding@Home. A reddit community called Banano is currently the top team contributor to this project with thousands of volunteers & they've helped creating COVID-19 vaccines! https://medicine.wustl.edu/news/foldinghomes-fight-against-covid-19-enlists-big-tech-gamers-pro-soccer/ 25 comments truereddit
- I am from 🇺🇸 and I do not know much about Russia or whatever is going on with Ukraine right now, but I do know that Russia is home to one of the most promising and exciting open science collaborations in the world: SiDock, which uses people's spare computing power to fight COVID http://sidock.si 3 comments russia
- An international team of bioinformaticians have discovered 100,000+ new RNA viruses by re-analyzing the world's public genetic databases with cloud computing. Including 9 new aquatic Coronaviruses. https://www.science.org/content/article/new-dangers-computers-uncover-100-000-novel-viruses-old-genetic-data 14 comments science
- The U.S. needs a National Strategic Computing Reserve: One year after supercomputers worked together to fight COVID, it’s time to broaden the partnership to prepare for other crises. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-u-s-needs-a-national-strategic-computing-reserve/ 5 comments technology
- Computer can determine whether you’ll die from COVID https://news.ku.dk/all_news/2021/02/computer-can-determine-whether-youll-die-from-covid/ 3 comments europe
- A new computer model that can predict how human genes & medicines will interact has identified at least 10 compounds that may hold promise as treatments for COVID-19. A few of the drug repurposing candidates the model generated have already been studied for their potential use in COVID-19 patients. https://news.osu.edu/computer-model-makes-strides-in-search-for-covid-19-treatments/ 3 comments science
- Covid deaths: 'Hard to compute sorrow' of 100,000 milestone - PM https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-55814751 3 comments worldnews
- A novel computational drug screening strategy combined with lab experiments suggest that pralatrexate, a chemotherapy medication originally developed to treat lymphoma, could potentially be repurposed to treat COVID-19. https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008489 4 comments science
- Florida State Police Raid Home Of COVID Whistleblower, Point Guns At Her & Her Family, Seize All Her Computer Equipment https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20201207/14591845837/florida-state-police-raid-home-covid-whistleblower-point-guns-her-her-family-seize-all-her-computer-equipment.shtml 33 comments politics
- Florida State Police Raid Home Of COVID Whistleblower, Point Guns At Her & Her Family, Seize All Her Computer Equipment https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20201207/14591845837/florida-state-police-raid-home-covid-whistleblower-point-guns-her-her-family-seize-all-her-computer-equipment.shtml 2981 comments technology
- Sanjay Madan and his wife and two sons worked as Ontario Government Computer specialists and perpetrated an over $11M theft of COVID relief funds. https://www.thestar.com/politics/provincial/2020/11/25/family-stole-11m-of-covid-19-relief-funds-in-massive-fraud-ontario-government-claims.html 9 comments worldnews
- Spanish grandma, 99, gets back to computer games after beating COVID-19 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-spain-grandmother/spanish-grandma-99-gets-back-to-computer-games-after-beating-covid-19-iduskbn2761ni?il=0 8 comments worldnews
- Chile’s former health minister is under fire for manipulating Covid data but the government won’t hand over potentially incriminating emails. Now, computers and documents have been stolen from under their noses - just 4 blocks from the presidential palace https://www.biobiochile.cl/noticias/nacional/region-metropolitana/2020/10/11/confirman-robo-de-computadores-y-documentos-desde-seremi-de-salud-metropolitana.shtml 5 comments worldnews
- DreamLab - donate your iPhone or iPad compute power to scientific research such as on COVID-19 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dreamlab/id1273619275 34 comments apple
- COBOL, A 60-Year-Old Computer Language, Is In The COVID-19 Spotlight - As State Governments Seek To Fix Overwhelmed Unemployment Benefit Systems, They Need Programmers Skilled In A Language That Was Passé By The Early 1980s. https://www.fastcompany.com/90488862/what-is-cobol 85 comments technology
- COBOL, A 60-Year-Old Computer Language, Is In The COVID-19 Spotlight - As State Governments Seek To Fix Overwhelmed Unemployment Benefit Systems, They Need Programmers Skilled In A Language That Was Passé By The Early 1980s. https://www.fastcompany.com/90488862/what-is-cobol 96 comments coding
- Hospital is invaded and depredated after Bolsonaro incites supporters The invaders kicked doors in the wards of patients with Covid-19 and threw computers on the floor https://catracalivre.com.br/cidadania/hospital-e-invadido-e-depredado-apos-bolsonaro-incitar-apoiadores/ 105 comments worldnews
- La Liga lending their super computer to coronavirus fight https://www.espn.com/soccer/spanish-primera-division/story/4087160/la-liga-lending-their-super-computer-to-coronavirus-fight-from-piracy-tracking-to-disease-tracking 26 comments soccer
- [DuBose] Per @SylvesterTurner, Russell Westbrook (through his Why Not? foundation) has purchased 650 computers for young students and their families in Houston. They’ll be used to help facilitate online learning amid the COVID-19 pandemic. https://twitter.com/bendubose/status/1249791635065626625?s=21 19 comments nba
- List of Free Computer Science Courses and Certificates in the time of COVID-19 https://www.notion.so/07d80644a8d8485f97cf893bfcd25638?v=0bf62518efc2405ebf4b6b8bc801b2aa 3 comments programming
- COBOL: Coronavirus pandemic exposes urgent need for programmers of a very old computer language https://mashable.com/article/coronavirus-unemployment-cobol-programmers/ 7 comments cobol
- Setting Up Distributed Computing on BSD Systems in Order to Aid COVID-19 Research https://bellebookandcode.com/tech/setting-up-distributed-computing-on-bsd-systems-in-order-to-aid-covid-19-research/ 3 comments openbsd
- Crowdsourced virtual supercomputer revs up coronavirus research — Anyone with a relatively recent computer can contribute by installing a program which downloads small amount of data for analysis to accelerate research for a coronavirus treatment. Nvidia called on gamers to join the effort as well. https://www.afp.com/en/news/3954/crowdsourced-virtual-supercomputer-revs-virus-research-doc-1q148f4 288 comments worldnews
- Coronavirus Strains IT Supply Chain: ‘We’re Down To Buying Computers From Costco’ https://www.crn.com/news/channel-programs/coronavirus-strains-it-supply-chain-we-re-down-to-buying-computers-from-costco- 12 comments chromeos
- Coronavirus Strains IT Supply Chain: ‘We’re Down To Buying Computers From Costco’ https://www.crn.com/news/channel-programs/coronavirus-strains-it-supply-chain-we-re-down-to-buying-computers-from-costco- 12 comments technology
- Cryptocurrency miners join hands for a noble cause. Urged to donate extra computing power for coronavirus research. https://btclights.com/mine-bitcoin-btc-and-donate-extra-computing-power-to-help-fight-coronavirus/ 4 comments technews
- Usiamo i nostri computer per qualcosa di veramente utile! Aiutiamo la ricerca sul COVID-19 None 3 comments italy
- U.S. health department computers attacked by hackers amid coronavirus response: report https://www.marketwatch.com/story/us-health-department-computers-attacked-by-hackers-amid-coronavirus-response-report-2020-03-16 5 comments politics
- Hackers just attacked a US health agency's computer system in an attempt to slow down its COVID-19 response https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-covid-19-cyberattack-hhs-health-human-services-hack-attempt-2020-3 183 comments politics
- Hackers just attacked a US health agency's computer system in an attempt to slow down its COVID-19 response https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-covid-19-cyberattack-hhs-health-human-services-hack-attempt-2020-3 56 comments technology
- People can use their computers to help develop a vaccine to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 https://foldingathome.org/2020/02/27/foldinghome-takes-up-the-fight-against-covid-19-2019-ncov/ 57 comments science
- "Folding@home update on SARS-CoV-2 (10 Mar 2020)" Macs are being used to computer COVID-19 protein behavior in pursuit of effective drugs https://foldingathome.org/2020/03/10/covid19-update/ 30 comments apple
- Nvidia rallying gamers to donate unused computing power to cure Coronavirus https://twitter.com/NVIDIAGeForce/status/1238496311776653312?s=19 94 comments hardware
- I'm a computer science student living in Canada. Here's a website I created as part of a project that puts a lot of information surrounding the coronavirus in an easy to digest webpage. (Numbers update automatically, and sources are included). http://www.coviddigest.com/ 11 comments programming
- Please consider downloading BOINC or folding@home to use your computers processor to help analyze COVID-19 research. None 39 comments windows
- People Can Volunteer Their Computer's Spare Computational Power to Fight COVID-19 https://www.publish0x.com/what-is-volunteer-computing-and-why-do-it/wanna-help-fight-the-corona-virus-you-can-with-your-pc-by-do-xmegdl 5 comments science
- Disease modelers gaze into computers to see future of Covid-19 - STAT https://www.statnews.com/2020/02/14/disease-modelers-see-future-of-covid-19/ 11 comments worldnews
- Bank of Japan refuses trader requests to work from home - The central bank doesn’t allow home computers to connect to its network for conducting asset purchases and other market transactions, raising concerns at financial firms as coronavirus cases in Tokyo surge. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/18/business/financial-markets/bank-of-japan-work-from-home/ 3 comments worldnews