As IT pros around the world go all-out to support a workforce that's suddenly fully remote, many technology workers and companies are also joining efforts to alleviate the COVID-19 crisis in various ways, including developing products to combat the virus, tracking and predicting its spread, and protecting hospitals from cyberattacks.

Apple launches app COVID-19 app, website

Apple on Friday unveiled a screening tool and set of resources designed to help people stay updated on the ongoing pandemic and take steps to protect their health. The information provided is based on the latest Centers for Disease Control guidance.

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Microsoftnext Windows 10 feature update, code-named 20H1, is coming very soon. We don&t know exactly when it will be released or what its official name will be, but its version number will be 2004.

Windows 10 November 2019 Update

Windows 10 October 2018 Update

Windows 10 April 2018 Update

Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (October 2018)

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Slack plans to integrate Microsoft Teams calling features into its own popular collaboration app, further enhancing available connections between the rival platforms.

&We&re working on Teams integrations for calling features,& Slack co-founder and CEO Stewart Butterfield said during a call with a financial analyst on Thursday,according to CNBC.

Details about the integration, including an expected timeframe for availability, were not immediately available.

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Pilot fish works for a health care organization that's looking for ways to cut costs and boost efficiency using IT — and there are some obvious targets.

&One particular area where I felt we could make some gains involved the reports from outlying clinics,& says fish. &They were transmitted in files to a secure FTP server, and then employees would print out the files and enter the information into three different systems manually.&

The organization has already bought a package thatcapable of receiving the reports, parsing them and feeding data to the three systems. In fact, the transmission can all be done through secure connections to the remote clinics systems — no more FTP required.

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The &Apple will switch to ARM& story continues with TF International Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuolatest claimthat Macs will begin the migration toAppleown ARM-based processors starting in 2021.

Not one Mac, but many

If the report is correct (which Kuo's claims often seem to be), the iPhone maker will introduce both desktop and notebook Macs equipped with its new processor next year.

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Google today said it will resume Chrome releases in two weeks and plans to make good on the multi-week suspension by skipping a version.

Chrome 81, the upgrade that was previously slated for a March 17 debut, will instead launch in two weeks, on April 7.

In the meantime, Chrome 80 will receive at least one more update - at some point next week, Google said - with fixes for vulnerabilities and what the search firm called "critical" issues. Releases of the Beta, Dev and Canary channels, which contain builds of decreasing polish and stability, either have already resumed or will this week.

Google suspended Chrome releases on March 18, citing "adjusted work schedules" but clearly blaming the COVID-19 pandemic and its massive overturning of business and personal conduct.

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