As the world scrambles to flatten the curve, contact-tracing apps have been positioned as a vital defense for suppressing the spread of coronavirus. Out of the more than 200 countries that have been ...

(TNS) — It’s been nearly a year since North Carolina and dozens of other states introduced contact tracing apps to their arsenal of tools to fight the spread of COVID-19. North Carolina’s app, ...

A COVID-19 patient's iPhone receives its daily contract tracing message from the city of New York on November 19, 2020, in Brooklyn, New York. (Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images) ...

BLACKSBURG, Va. – Smartphone apps track lots of data to provide users with an optimal experience. During the COVID-19 pandemic, contact tracing apps in particular have gained massive amounts of ...

Digital contact tracing apps, or DCTs, use technologies like Bluetooth to alert users when they are at risk for potential disease exposure. The goal of DCTs was to assist with the shortage of health ...

Covid-19 has turned our lives upside down. But it has also been a catalyst for plenty of new technology, and it made apps even more popular than they were pre-pandemic. Among the most controversial ...

In the age of cellphones and the internet, consumers often face a simple choice: convenience or privacy? Do we let Big Tech have access to our private communications and free email accounts because it ...

In a survey of more than 8,000 Irish adults, 82pc said they were willing to download a contact-tracing app ‘for the greater good’. New research carried out by a team from the Science Foundation ...

It’s been nearly a year since North Carolina and dozens of other states introduced contact-tracing apps to their arsenal of tools to fight the spread of COVID-19. North Carolina’s app, SlowCOVIDNC, is ...

The spread of COVID-19 is tough to trace and even tougher to predict, but researchers at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Mellon University created an early warning system to help protect you from the virus ...

Mathematical modeling of disease spread suggests that herd immunity could be achieved with fewer vaccine doses by using Bluetooth-based contact-tracing apps to identify people who have more exposure ...