Marcel Salathé is an associate professor and head of the Digital Epidemiology Lab, School of Life Sciences, School of Computer and Communication Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ...

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 ...

SEATTLE — As parts of the country look to reopen the economy, a new app by the University of Washington hopes to be a reliable way to track the virus and its future spread. The CovidSafe app is ...

A version of this article first appeared on the website of the Public Interest Technology program at New America. During the COVID-19 pandemic, alongside social distancing and masks, governments and ...

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 ...

Contact tracing has been a core component of the public health response to the coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Its main objective is to interrupt transmission chains by identifying people who ...

Apple and Google join forces using Bluetooth technology to help governments and health agencies reduce the spread of COVID-19. In a rare moment of collaboration, Apple and Google said Friday they have ...

Did you know that Apple and Android phones have had COVID-19 contact tracing apps built into their operating systems? No? Well it doesn't matter, because Texas will not let residents use the system ...

Authorities in Germany are under fire for tracking down witnesses to a potential crime by using data from a mobile phone app that was intended to help identify close contacts of people infected with ...