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Europe's largest news agency, recently launched a project to help develop new drugs for the coronavirus using subscribers' smartphones. If the company's app "Dreamlab" is installed on its smartphone, the app is connected to the institute's central server at dawn when the smartphone is not in use, replacing the complex math operations needed to find corona new drug substances. Data charges incurred at this time are free. Vodafone explained, "If 100,000 smartphones are connected, it can be calculated in three months with a high-performance octa-core (eight CPU cores) PC," adding, "It is comparable to a supercomputer."
Global IT companies are scrambling to join global efforts to end the coronavirus crisis. It aims to show companies not only seeking profits but also contributing to the public interest of mankind, while boasting the power of their high-tech technologies globally.
IBM, Oracle, Google, Apple.
IBM, Microsoft and Oracle, long-time competitors in the corporate IT industry, have been jointly pushing for the "MiPasa" project since late last month, which uses blockchain technology to verify and manage data related to coronavirus. The plan calls for integrated management of Corona-related big data collected by the World Health Organization (WHO), the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, Johns Hopkins Hospital and health authorities in each country.
Through this, the reliability of Coronavirus-related big data, which has been managed by countries around the world on their own, can be increased and widely shared. Information gathered in Mifasa is recorded in the blockchain by correcting errors through cross-validation between agencies. "Mipasa's big data will be used by governments in the future to prevent the spread of viruses and to recover from damage," IBM said.
Google and Apple are jointly developing a technology that uses smartphones to track the movements of people infected with coronavirus. It will provide a technology to use Bluetooth wireless technology in May to check for contact with infected people, and from June, it will incorporate a technology to track infected people into its Android and iOS operating systems so that it can check for contact with the movements of infected Coronavirus without having to download a separate app. Bloomberg reported that "the technology that can track one-third of the world's population is being developed."
Coronavirus analysis with AI
Artificial intelligence technology is also actively used. Alibaba, China's largest e-commerce company, is supplying Coronavieus Diagnostic AI to Europe. Coronavirus can be diagnosed with 96 percent accuracy within 20 seconds by analyzing patient CT images. It is thanks to the study of some 5,000 clinical data on Coronavirus patients.
Google's biotech subsidiary, runs a "drive-through" clinic in California, where it can get Coronavirus checkups in cars in partnership with retailer Wal-Mart. Recently, it has also developed a small patch that detects fever in real time and diagnoses coronavirus infections early. Google is analyzing the structure of the coronavirus using its medical AI "AlphaFold" from its AI subsidiary DeepMind. It is to help develop vaccines and treatments.
Some tech companies have jumped into the production of masks and hand sanitizers. HP, a U.S. computer company, produces medical facial protectors and cotton swabs used to diagnose infections with 3D printers and supplies them to medical facilities. British electronics maker Dyson and automaker Rolls-Royce have begun producing respirators essential for the treatment of coronavirus.