At the heart of all Bluetooth-based contact tracing apps is one fundamental issue: whether they actually help in the struggle to slow the spread of Covid-19. Whether they’re effective or not can be ...

Last week, Apple and Google announced that they would be joining forces to create a tool that will assist public health authorities in creating contact tracing apps to help stop the spread of Covid-19 ...

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 ...

The Bluetooth SIG (Special Interest Group) wants to bring a COVID-19 contact tracing system to wearable devices. The group behind the Bluetooth standards has announced that they are working on a new ...

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 ...

IS LIVE IN LAWRENCE TO EXPLAIN. JENNIFER: GOOD MORNING. PEOPLE HAVE BEEN LINING UP HERE IN LAWRENCE TO GET TESTED. NOW, THE STATE IS LOOKING FOR A NEW WAY TO NOTIFY PEOPLE WHEN THEY HAVE BEEN EXPOSED ...