Category: Tech4Good
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The quest for friction-free products: World Usability Day
Google Blog – 11.13.18 (11.10.18) World Usability Day is a one-day, global celebration that brings together design professionals, developers and product creators to humanize products and advocate for making them easier to use. This year, Google is celebrating with an extra emphasis on Digital Wellbeing. Read more: The quest for friction-free products: World Usability Day
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VR for Good competition
Vuze VR Blog – 11.12.18 (11.11.18) A UK charity has announced one of the world’s first ‘VR for good’ film competitions with a significant cash prize. LOROS Hospice cares for over 2,500 terminally ill patients across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland (UK) each year and has been working with critically acclaimed VR studio CATS are not PEAS…
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Jay’s Story: Ask Me About | Reinvent Mindsets
HP YouTube Channel – 11.12.18 HP is hiring and talent is our only criteria. HP is dedicated to becoming the employer of choice for underrepresented groups seeking careers in the tech industry. Source: Jay’s Story: Ask Me About | Reinvent Mindsets
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Google Play: Change the Game Design Challenge
Google YouTube Channel – 11.8.18 Change The Game is Google Play’s program to empower women in the gaming industry. Earlier this year, we challenged teens to submit their mobile game ideas for our first ever Change The Game Design Challenge. We selected five finalists and brought the games to life. Today, we’re thrilled to…
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Saving Lives With AI | Intel
Intel YouTube Channel – 11.8.18 (11.7.18) Intel and Montefiore Health Systems are using #IntelAI and predictive analytics to harness huge amounts of medical data to predict and prevent chronic health issues in patients, saving time and saving lives. Source: Saving Lives With AI
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Statistics Show It Can Wait | It Can Wait
AT&T YouTube Channel – 11.8.18 (11.6.18) AT&T research shows nearly 9-in-10 people admit to using their smartphone behind the wheel. Help us put an end to smartphone distracted driving and take the pledge at https://www.itcanwait.com/. Source: Statistics Show It Can Wait | It Can Wait | AT&T
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Reese Witherspoon Hosts Young Female Storytellers | AT&T Hello Sunshine Filmmaker Lab
AT&T YouTube Channel – 11.7.18 (11.5.18) Today, only 17% of creators in Hollywood are women. This past summer, the first-ever, all-girl AT&T Hello Sunshine Filmmaker Lab, produced by Fresh Films, had one goal: make that statistic history. Source: Reese Witherspoon Hosts Young Female Storytellers | AT&T Hello Sunshine Filmmaker Lab
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GoSun Provides 1,500 Solar Cookers to Support American Red Cross Relief Efforts in Response to Typhoon Yutu in the South Pacific
GoSun Newsroom – 11.4.18 (10.30.18) GoSun, the world’s leading solar cooking brand, provides 1,500 of their GoSun Sport portable solar ovens to the American Red Cross to support relief efforts in the aftermath of Super-Typhoon “Yutu” which struck the U.S. Territories of the North Mariana Islands on Friday, October 26. Source: GoSun Provides 1,500 Solar Cookers to…
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Amazon Launches Childhood-to-Career Program “Amazon Future Engineer” to Inspire and Empower Underprivileged Youth to Build Careers in Computer Science
Amazon Newsroom – 11.2.18 (11.1.18) The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that by 2020 there will be 1.4 million computer-science-related jobs available and only 400,000 computer science graduates with the skills to apply for those jobs. Computer science is the fastest growing profession within the Science, Technology, Engineering or Math (STEM) field, but only 8%…
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Find out what motivates the Googlers building technology for everyone
Google Blog – 11.2.18 (10.30.18) There’s a common belief that having a disability means living a life with limits. At Google, we believe that technology can remove some of those limits and give everyone the same power to achieve their goals. Read more: Find out what motivates the Googlers building technology for everyone