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6 Ways Governments Drive Innovation – and How They Can Help Post-Pandemic Resilience
Amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, governments are attempting to further innovation to drive economic recovery. However, attempts to accelerate existing or emerging industry clusters have been more successful, instead of building new industry clusters is also incredibly costly, which could take decades to pay dividends. Here’s how governments...
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GIF Inventor Steve Wilhite Dies at 74 After Battling COVID-19
Stephen Wilhite, the creator of the GIF has died of COVID-19 at the age of 74. Wilhite received a Webby Lifetime Achievement Award in New York in 2013 for inventing the GIF in 1987, while working as an engineering lead at CompuServe, an early internet service provider.
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Covid Conspiracy Theories, Drawing Inspiration From US, Take Root In Europe
"It's not a virus, it's a tool to use power," says Monique Lustig in the Netherlands, while in Germany, Hellmuth Mendel argues that "Covid is a story invented by an international financial mafia". "And what if this was all just a film?" asks Christop
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Battery-Powered Face Mask Seeks To Fight COVID And Foggy Glasses
A South Korean company has invented a battery-powered filtered face mask designed to reduce annoying problems associated with conventional designs, such as breathing difficulties and fogged-up glasses.
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Australian Researchers Invent 20-Minute Coronavirus Blood Test
Researchers in Australia have devised a test that can determine novel coronavirus infection in about 20 minutes using blood samples in what they say is a world-first breakthrough. The researchers at Monash University said their test can determine if someone is currently infected and if they have been infected in the past.
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Self-Cleaning Masks Can Kill COVID-19 With Phone Charger's Heat: Researchers
Israeli researchers say they have invented a reusable face mask that can kill the coronavirus with heat by drawing power from a mobile phone charger.
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Lockdown Part Of Our Lives Until Coronavirus Vaccine Invented: Biplab Deb
Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Deb on Thursday said that people have to accept the lockdown "as a part of their lives" until a vaccine is developed for the coronavirus pandemic.
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Agartala Mechanic, School Drop-Out, Invents 'Social Distancing' Motorbike
A school drop-out has built a motorbike with a one-metre gap between the rider and the passenger to drive home the importance of social distancing in the coronavirus pandemic.
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Vietnam "Rice ATM" Feeds Those Out Of Job Amid Coronavirus Lockdown
A Vietnamese entrepreneur in Ho Chi Minh City has invented a 24/7 automatic dispensing machine providing free rice for people out of work following an ongoing nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus.
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Wristbands to AI Tools: New Inventions Seek to Help in Fight Against Coronavirus
From furniture makers to AI software developers, companies around the world are adapting existing products or inventing new ones to help fight the pandemic or just make life easier for those working from home, in hospitals or stuck in quarantine.
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Astrophysicist Ends Up In Hospital After Coronavirus Invention Goes Wrong
An Australian astrophysicist hoping to create a necklace that would prevent people from touching their faces instead ended up in the hospital after the attempt wentwrong.
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Coronavirus: This Picture Of Corona Pakoda Goes Viral On Social Media. Seen It Yet?
A picture of 'Corona Pakoda' has gone viral on social media, and netizens are loving the Pakoda that resembles the Coronavirus strain.
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Researchers Create AI-Powered Device That Detects Cough, Can Predict Pandemic in Making
A team of US researchers has invented a portable surveillance device powered by machine learning called 'FluSense' that can detect coughing and crowd size in real time, analyse the data to directly monitor flu-like illnesses and influenza trends and predict the next pandemic in the making.
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6 Ways Governments Drive Innovation – and How They Can Help Post-Pandemic Resilience
Amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, governments are attempting to further innovation to drive economic recovery. However, attempts to accelerate existing or emerging industry clusters have been more successful, instead of building new industry clusters is also incredibly costly, which could take decades to pay dividends. Here’s how governments...
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GIF Inventor Steve Wilhite Dies at 74 After Battling COVID-19
Stephen Wilhite, the creator of the GIF has died of COVID-19 at the age of 74. Wilhite received a Webby Lifetime Achievement Award in New York in 2013 for inventing the GIF in 1987, while working as an engineering lead at CompuServe, an early internet service provider.
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Covid Conspiracy Theories, Drawing Inspiration From US, Take Root In Europe
"It's not a virus, it's a tool to use power," says Monique Lustig in the Netherlands, while in Germany, Hellmuth Mendel argues that "Covid is a story invented by an international financial mafia". "And what if this was all just a film?" asks Christop
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Battery-Powered Face Mask Seeks To Fight COVID And Foggy Glasses
A South Korean company has invented a battery-powered filtered face mask designed to reduce annoying problems associated with conventional designs, such as breathing difficulties and fogged-up glasses.
-
Australian Researchers Invent 20-Minute Coronavirus Blood Test
Researchers in Australia have devised a test that can determine novel coronavirus infection in about 20 minutes using blood samples in what they say is a world-first breakthrough. The researchers at Monash University said their test can determine if someone is currently infected and if they have been infected in the past.
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Self-Cleaning Masks Can Kill COVID-19 With Phone Charger's Heat: Researchers
Israeli researchers say they have invented a reusable face mask that can kill the coronavirus with heat by drawing power from a mobile phone charger.
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Lockdown Part Of Our Lives Until Coronavirus Vaccine Invented: Biplab Deb
Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Deb on Thursday said that people have to accept the lockdown "as a part of their lives" until a vaccine is developed for the coronavirus pandemic.
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Agartala Mechanic, School Drop-Out, Invents 'Social Distancing' Motorbike
A school drop-out has built a motorbike with a one-metre gap between the rider and the passenger to drive home the importance of social distancing in the coronavirus pandemic.
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Vietnam "Rice ATM" Feeds Those Out Of Job Amid Coronavirus Lockdown
A Vietnamese entrepreneur in Ho Chi Minh City has invented a 24/7 automatic dispensing machine providing free rice for people out of work following an ongoing nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus.
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Wristbands to AI Tools: New Inventions Seek to Help in Fight Against Coronavirus
From furniture makers to AI software developers, companies around the world are adapting existing products or inventing new ones to help fight the pandemic or just make life easier for those working from home, in hospitals or stuck in quarantine.
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Astrophysicist Ends Up In Hospital After Coronavirus Invention Goes Wrong
An Australian astrophysicist hoping to create a necklace that would prevent people from touching their faces instead ended up in the hospital after the attempt wentwrong.
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Coronavirus: This Picture Of Corona Pakoda Goes Viral On Social Media. Seen It Yet?
A picture of 'Corona Pakoda' has gone viral on social media, and netizens are loving the Pakoda that resembles the Coronavirus strain.
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Researchers Create AI-Powered Device That Detects Cough, Can Predict Pandemic in Making
A team of US researchers has invented a portable surveillance device powered by machine learning called 'FluSense' that can detect coughing and crowd size in real time, analyse the data to directly monitor flu-like illnesses and influenza trends and predict the next pandemic in the making.
