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Photo by Lane Turner/The Boston Globe via Getty Images Instacart has announced new updates to its sick leave policies that give more of its workers, including part-time employees, access to sick pay amid the ongoing spread of the novel coronavirus. Any part-time employees or full-service shoppers diagnosed with COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel
Read Moreillustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Game Developers Conference will stream many of the talks it would have aired at its canceled event, organizers announced today. “Thanks to submissions from many of the original speakers who had talks accepted for GDC 2020, organizers will be streaming speaker-recorded versions of the talks they would
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Read MoreMicrosoft Teams free edition already supports online audio and video calls with support for screen sharing as well. In response to the Coronavirus outbreak, Microsoft is planning to enable two more meeting features that are only available on premium plans. Microsoft Teams free edition users will soon get Scheduled meetings and Meeting recordings features. With
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft is allowing and encouraging its employees to work from home as the novel coronavirus outbreak continues to spread in countries around the world. The software giant has updated its guidelines for employees, allowing anyone based in Seattle or San Francisco to work from home through March 9th.
Read MorePhoto: Microsoft Microsoft and the NFL have renewed and expanded their partnership, making Microsoft Teams the league’s official communication platform and keeping Surface products as the official tablet. The expanded partnership is a huge win for the tech giant weeks after IBM chose Slack over Microsoft Teams as the internal communication tool for its employees.
Read MorePhoto by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images Stanford University’s Folding@home distributed computing project is seeking volunteers to help researchers develop treatment therapies for the novel coronavirus. Folding@home (FAH) uses the processing capacity of networked computers to simulate the complex process of protein folding, which helps determine how to treat diseases like Alzheimer’s and cancer, and SARS, another
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