Despite very public messaging that the Bluetooth contact-tracing tools for COVID-19 developed by Google and Apple would not track users' locations, its implementation within Android operating systems ...

When Google and Apple announced last week that the two companies are building changes into Android and iOS to enable Bluetooth-based Covid-19 contact tracing, they touched off an immediate firestorm ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The Bluetooth-based system predicted close contacts with an accuracy between 0.88 and 1. The system also ...

Traditional manual contact tracing is not fast enough to keep pace with the rapid spread of COVID-19. Here, technology can shorten the delay between confirming an infected case and isolating all ...

How can Bluetooth direction-finding be used in digital contact tracing? For a start, the technology requires additional hardware and software infrastructure to be fully functional. For example, more ...

Utah is accepting applications from companies that can supply a Bluetooth contact tracing technology to track the spread of COVID-19. That’s not because state leaders want to scrap Healthy Together, ...

Since Covid-19 began its spread across the world, technologists have proposed using so-called contact-tracing apps to track infections via smartphones. Now, Google and Apple are teaming up to give ...