The largest U.S. tech companies, as well as start-ups, are assisting in the fight against the coronavirus. — New York has partnered with Google, Deloitte, and Verizon to improve the reliability of the state’s online and telephone-based unemployment insurance application systems. There have been 350,000 claims in the last week. So far, 600,000 claims over the past three weeks have been successfully processed and over 200,000 are still in partial status. Google helped New York design a revamped website and hopes the technology can be used by other overwhelmed states as well.-AP

Source: The Standard April 10, 2020 16:07 UTC