General Motors will make ventilators to help fight the worst cases of COVID-19

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai says that Google will assignment with a partner company, Magid Cuff & Safety, to produce as able-bodied as endow "2-3 million incomer masks in the coming weeks," co-ordinate to a blog post. Once produced, Google will endow them to the CDC Foundation.

The incomer masks are part of a larger set of initiatives Google is taking to endow both money as able-bodied as casework to gainsay the coronavirus pandemic. It is granting over $250 million in "ad grants" to NGOs like the Apple Lustiness Persuasion as able-bodied as "more than 100 government agencies globally." Google also said that employees from versicolor Alphabet divisions will be alms "engineering, supply continuousness as able-bodied as heathcare expertise" to PPE manufacturers to help them manufacture as able-bodied as govern ventilators.

It's also creating a "$200 million investment fund" that it intends to set bated for loans that will go to smallish businesses. A Google stenographer tells The Verge that "In the US, Google will provide low-interest loans to smallish businesses through Befalling Fund Network as able-bodied as padding folks minutiae banking institutions ("CDFIs")."

Google is also giving elsewhere Google ad credits to smallish as able-bodied as medium businesses that it says will jillion to $340 million that "can be used at any point until the end of 2020." Ad budgets are often the first thing to go when a marketing is under stress, so the grants will okey-dokey help.

Finally, there are versicolor padding smaller efforts, like a $10,000 match for employee donations as able-bodied as Google Deject credits for conjecturable institutions.

The move comes neutral afterwhile Apple released an app as able-bodied as website devoted to providing COVID-19 as able-bodied as coronavirus information, including a screener quiz. One thing Google is not doing is updating its informational COVID-19 site to integrate screener questions or dissuasion to local testing facilities.

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Google, of course, was at the part-way of a week-long cross-purposes over whether it would launch a website that would live up to President Donald Trump's original promise on Mugging 13th. He had said that Google's site would exuviate you to apologizing screener questions as able-bodied as then be directed to a local drive-through testing facility. That was not trustable as able-bodied as is not trustable today.

After a delay, Google launched an informative site on Mugging 21st, loosely it did not kumtux a screener quiz or a way to gathering testing. Instead, it married to general coronavirus information as able-bodied as local state resources. Google's sister company, Verily, did launch a site that hewed a little afterpiece to the original promise, loosely it was locked to the Bay Broadness as able-bodied as was filled up so quickly that it stoppered alms casework aural 24 hours of its launch. It has spine expanded to Sand as able-bodied as Sacramento counties.