Bottom line: The situation surrounding Covid-19 in the US hasn't exactly improved over the past week. Rather, the search giant has likely worked out the kinks associated with sending its workforce home to comply with local quarantine orders.

Google is back at it just one week after the Covid-19 outbreak forced the software maker to pause upcoming Chrome releases.

Google said in a recent blog post that its stable channel will resume activity starting next week with security and critical updates for Chrome 80, the

In a nutshell: Dyson has become the latest tech company to join the fight against Covid-19 by diverting some of its resources and expertise to help design a ventilator to address shortages. Impressively enough, Dyson’s creation – the CoVent – came together in less than two weeks, after James Dyson received a call from UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

Dyson has joined forces with The Technology Partnership to design and build a ventilator based on the British company’s digital motor.

In an internal e-mail sent

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In context: With internet usage peaking during the current pandemic crisis, companies with large bandwidth requirements are beginning to cut back on their network speeds. Video streaming services were the first place restrictions by limiting HD resolutions. Sony has joined the effort by limiting download speeds for games sold on its digital storefront.

Update (03/27/20): It probably comes as no surprise that Sony is expanding its efforts to minimize bandwidth by slowing or delaying downloads on PSN. In an update to its original blog

What just happened? AT&T prepaid and AT&T subsidiary Cricket Wireless on Friday announced the launch of more affordable mobile phone plans to help customers facing financial hardship as a result of the Covid-19 outbreak. AT&T didn’t say how long the plan would be in effect although presumably, it’ll at least be for the duration of the crisis in the US.

The new plans includes unlimited talk and text plus 2GB of data (max download speeds of 8 Mbps (LTE)

Why it matters: Few things have united people across the tech sector quite like Covid-19. Millions of dollars are going toward fighting the virus, including a combined $75 million from The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and The Gates Foundation, along with donations from game companies and big industry names.

In a Facebook post, CEO Zuckerberg wrote that he and wife Priscilla were committing $25 million to accelerate the development of treatments for Covid-19. The money comes from The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI)

The big picture: Nvidia's business model for GeForce Now didn't sit well with some big game publishers, who took down their titles from the service in succession soon after the gaming platform launched publicly. Epic Games, now a publisher - incidentally - became a notable exception to that trend with CEO Tim Sweeney praising the service for its developer-friendly and publisher-friendly approach. Building on that support, Nvidia recently brought Remedy's Control to GeForce Now and announced that the service would be getting new Game

Forward-looking: Drones that are able to detect people infected with the coronavirus sounds like something from a sci-fi movie, but it's about to happen in Australia, and could arrive in other countries looking to stop the virus’ spread.

Drone maker Draganfly has been working on technology that uses specialized onboard thermal sensors and a smart computer vision system to monitor temperature, heart and respiratory rates from a distance. It can also detect people sneezing and coughing in large crowds or places where groups of people work or