Facebook repairs bug that prompted brief app outages (Update)
Popular smartphone apps including Spotify and Pinterest suffered outages Friday for a few hours due to a bug in Facebook's systems.
Jul 10, 2020
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Britain scraps virus tracing app for Google-Apple system
Britain scrapped plans to launch its own coronavirus contact tracing smartphone app because of technical problems and will now work on building one using technology supplied by Apple and Google, health authorities said Thursday.
Jun 18, 2020
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US virus tracking: a patchwork of apps, human tracers
Digital or manual? Bluetooth or GPS? Centralized or decentralized?
May 24, 2020
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Apple, Google release technology for pandemic apps
Apple and Google on Wednesday released long-awaited smartphone technology to automatically notify people if they might have been exposed to the coronavirus.
May 20, 2020
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France looks past Google, Apple for virus contact tracing
France, which has long been sceptical of the growing power of US tech titans, is seeking to bypass Apple and Google for a smartphone app to help trace people infected with the novel coronavirus.
May 20, 2020
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Secure smart-home entry via earprint
Fingerprints and DNA are widely known forms of biometrics, thanks to crime dramas on television. But as technology advances the Internet of Things, the interconnection of computer devices in common objects, other forms of ...
May 15, 2020
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Virus tracing app raises privacy concerns in India
As India enters an extended coronavirus lockdown, the government is actively pursuing contact tracing to help control infections. At the heart of the effort in the country of 1.3 billion people is a government-run smartphone ...
May 08, 2020
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Here come COVID-19 tracing apps—and privacy trade-offs
As governments around the world consider how to monitor new coronavirus outbreaks while reopening their societies, many are starting to bet on smartphone apps to help stanch the pandemic.
May 05, 2020
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Contact tracing app warns of COVID-19 exposure while protecting privacy
Three Boston University computer scientists and engineers are working on a smartphone app that could let people know if they have come in contact with someone who has tested positive for COVID-19, while protecting the privacy ...
Apr 16, 2020
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Virus 'tracing' by smartphone: a key to reopening society?
Can an app contain the pandemic? Interest is growing in smartphone technology as a potential key to ending lockdowns and reopening economies around the world.
Apr 15, 2020
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