Within weeks of Covid-19 shutting down the world in 2020, teams at archrivals Apple and Google partnered on a rare joint project. They developed a way to log people’s proximity using Bluetooth chips ...

As the pandemic has eased, daily life has returned to normal, and many companies that switched to remote work have gone back to office-based operations. However, Google, the tech giant, has decided to ...

Google on Friday removed the Android version of the Infowars app from the Google Play online store, after comments made by Infowars founder Alex Jones about the COVID-19 pandemic were deemed false and ...

Washington’s COVID-19 exposure notification app is scheduled to conclude May 11 in tandem with the end of the Public Health Emergency. The smartphone application uses privacy-preserving Bluetooth ...

The Washington State Department of Health (DOH) announced Monday that its COVID-19 exposure notification smartphone app, WA Notify, is going away today. The COVID-19 exposure notification app is ...

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) is facing a class-action lawsuit for allegedly using Google technology to covertly install tracking apps on over one million Android phones as part ...

On March 20, 2020—three days before the first UK lockdown—Tim Spector realized that the country was in desperate need of a Covid tracking app. Spector, a professor of genetic epidemiology at King’s ...

As variants of the COVID-19 virus emerge throughout the USA, there is a renewed push to get more Americans vaccinated. As of Wednesday, about 67% of Americans were fully vaccinated against COVID-19, ...