Mainframe Industries seeks to develop cloud native video games, reports Venture Beat. 

Mainframe Industries has raised $8.3 million to develop cloud-native games in a financing led by Andreessen Horowitz, with additional investment from Riot Games.

While other industries face the economic impact of Covid-19 Amazon, Microsofit and Google remain in good financial position, reports Business Insider. 

The coronavirus crisis is ravaging the stock markets as businesses shut down or figure out how to work remotely. But cloud providers, particularly Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, and Google Cloud, should be relatively safe from this turmoil, experts say.

With cloud based labs scientists have the ability to work from home, reports IEEE Spectrum.

Working from home is the new normal, at least for those of us whose jobs mostly involve tapping on computer keys. But what about researchers who are synthesizing new chemical compounds or testing them on living tissue or on bacteria in petri dishes?