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 ...

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 ...

Update: The app is a secondary one popularly used for electronic check-ins at venues, distinct from the government app which uses the Apple/Google API. German police have misused a COVID-19 contact ...

Android users in Massachusetts may automatically see a new state COVID-19 exposure notification app installed on their phone, according to a number of reports surfacing. Google told 9to5Google that it ...

On August 9, 2022, Australia’s COVIDSafe app was officially decommissioned, and all its features removed. People were encouraged to uninstall the app. Reports of its closure have made international ...

A federal judge has tentatively approved a proposed settlement of a lawsuit accusing Google of exposing sensitive information of Android users who downloaded a COVID-19 contact tracing app. The deal ...

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) ...

When Utah tapped tech developer Twenty to create its $6 million COVID-19 contact tracing app this spring, the state health department later had to shift gears when only 200 people opted to share their ...

The idea behind digital contact tracing is that, when an individual tests positive for an infectious disease such as COVID-19, an app on their smartphone can send a notification to other smartphones ...

The MI COVID Alert app is supposed to warn you if you’ve been near an infected person. My phone has been suspiciously silent. Credit: Lee DeVito About a year ago, Michigan got a new weapon in its ...

A team of experts at the Pandemic Sciences Institute at the University of Oxford and Department of Statistics at the University of Warwick estimate the NHS COVID-19 app prevented around 1 million ...