Google’s coronavirus contact tracing framework, which alerts users if they have been near someone with COVID-19, has been making its data available to third-party apps. The software giant had been ...

California will launch a COVID-19 exposure-notification system Thursday that uses smartphones to track interactions with infected people. The state “has partnered with Google and Apple to launch a ...

Electron microscope image of the virus that causes COVID-19. Photo: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Apple and Google revealed Friday that they’re teaming up to take on one of the ...

A new study suggests that Google and Apple’s exposure notification API may have saved thousands of lives. As many as 8,000 people in England and Wales may have averted infection thanks to the API and ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Google is being sued for allegedly exposing users' information on its ...

The Exposure Notification software can be used in official health authority apps as part of contact-tracing measures. Sign up for the top news stories every day to keep you informed with what's going ...

Apple and Google shocked the world last Friday with their COVID-19 announcement to collaborate on an opt-in Bluetooth-based proximity contact detection API for iOS and Android. Contact tracing is the ...

(Reuters) - Apple Inc and Alphabet Inc's Google on Monday said they would ban the use of location tracking in apps that use a new contact tracing system the two are building to help slow the spread of ...

The automated contact-tracing system deployed by Google and Apple that was aimed at curbing the spread of COVID-19 has been, in no uncertain terms, a complete failure. The basic system’s effectiveness ...

Google has issued a fix for a bug that has affected, for the past couple of days, all Android-based apps that use the Exposure Notifications System, which includes many contact-tracing apps around the ...

Google is facing a lawsuit after a bug in its contact tracing tech reportedly exposed user data. Google and Apple developed a system that helps health officials alert people exposed to COVID-19. An ...