Facebook gives more than 2,000 of its Portal ビデオ call 装置s to NHS care home 居住（者）s and 患者s for 解放する／自由な to help them connect with loved ones during the coronavirus pandemic

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Facebook is giving its Portal ビデオ call 装置s to care home 居住（者）s and 患者s to help them connect with loved ones during the coronavirus pandemic.

The social 網状組織 will 供給（する） 2,050 部隊s for 解放する／自由な to hospitals, care homes and other settings 含むing hospices, in-患者 learning disability and autism 部隊s.

It has already 供給（する）d 50 Portal 装置s to 操縦する 場所／位置s in Surrey, with Manchester, Newcastle, London, Essex and other areas to follow this week.?

It's hoped the 装置s will 緩和する loneliness during lockdown, 特に for the 年輩の and those with underlying health 条件s, who are most at 危険 of COVID-19.

Scroll 負かす／撃墜する for ビデオ?

Facebook Portal The wide-angle camera on Facebook's 10-インチ telephone keeps you in でっちあげる，人を罪に陥れる, follows you around and automatically pans and zoo ms, while minimising background noise

?'With the 全世界の pandemic and social distancing 対策, the ability to stay connected is more important than ever,' said Freddy Abnousi, 長，率いる of health 科学（工学）技術 at Facebook.???

'That's why we are 操縦するing a programme with NHSX to 供給する Portal 装置s in hospitals and other care settings to support 患者s and help 減ずる social 孤立／分離.'???

Some care homes around the country had already been using Facebook Portal to connect during lockdown.?

CHD Living, a Surrey-based care home group, was 特に using Portal to connect 居住（者）s with children and adults who don’t have grandparents, Wired 報告（する）／憶測s.???

But now Facebook is 公式に getting behind the 率先 by giving out 2,000 of the 装置s for 解放する／自由な.? ?????

'科学（工学）技術 companies big and small continue to 誓約（する） their 資源s and 専門的知識 to support our NHS and social care system in these 前例のない times,' said Iain O'Neil, 数字表示式の 変形 director at NHSX, the 国家の Health Service's 数字表示式の 支店.?

'We are working hard to find and develop services that 会合，会う people's 平等に 前例のない needs.

'科学（工学）技術 has never been so important to 供給するing one of life's most 必須の things ? the ability to communicate with the people we love 関わりなく where they are.'??

NHSX says 明確な／細部 care settings will be selected on the basis of Wi-Fi connectivity and ability to run 装置s in 居住（者）s' rooms or another 私的な 場所.

居住（者） Pat Tolson 雑談（する）s 経由で Facebook Portal to her family, helped by 広い地所 経営者／支配人 Neil Gandecha at the Foxholes Care Home as the spread of COVID-19

It is also 調査するing connectivity 選択s for care homes without WiFi, such as using 4G hotspots or data-enabled tablets.??

'It is 広大な／多数の／重要な to see Facebook giving care home 居住（者）s and 患者s the 装置s they need to connect with their family and friends at such a challenging time,' said?数字表示式の 長官 Oliver Dowden.

'The 科学（工学）技術 部門 is rising to the challenge at this moment of 国家の 緊急 and we in 政府 are working closely with them to help people stay home, 保護する the NHS and save lives.'??

Facebook's line of Portal 装置s, which were first 解放（する）d in 2018 and 現在／一般に start from £79, 供給する live ビデオ 雑談（する） 経由で Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp.

Both Portal and Portal+ are equipped with 12 megapixel cameras that adjust based on whoever is entering the でっちあげる，人を罪に陥れる. They zoom out or in whenever someone moves around the room

Portal's camera automatically 跡をつけるs people's movements and comes with アマゾン's Alexa smart assistant to 答える／応じる to 発言する／表明する 命令（する）s.?

Facebook has 以前 認める it collects 工夫する usage （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状） to understand how Portal is 存在 used and '改善する the 製品.'?

'When you use Portal, we 過程 the same 肉親，親類d of （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状） as when you use Facebook 製品s on your other 装置s', a spokesperson wrote in a blog 地位，任命する at the time of its 解放（する）.

'Some of this （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状）, 含むing the fact that you logged into your account or how often you use a feature or app, may be used to 知らせる the 広告s you see across Facebook.

'While we don’t listen to, 見解（をとる） or keep the contents of your Portal ビデオ calls, or use this （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状） to 的 広告s, we do 過程 some 装置 usage （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状） to understand how Portal is 存在 used and to 改善する the 製品', the 会社／堅い said.??

Facebook also said that in the event the 装置 衝突，墜落s, 'small fragments of ビデオ and 音声部の （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状） that are いっそう少なく than one second in length' are sent to the 会社／堅い.?

Portal's 初めの 解放（する） was hot on the heels of the Cambridge Analytica スキャンダル, which was why many people on social マスコミ said they 辞退するd to have the 装置 in their house.???