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Apple and Google to create contact tracing technology

By Stephen Nellis and Paresh Dave

Apr 11 2020 11:52AM

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Apple and Google to create contact tracing technology

Apple and Google will work together to create contact tracing technology that aims to slow the spread of the coronavirus by allowing users to opt into a system that catalogs other phones they have been near. The two Silicon Valley companies make the world's dominant smartphone operating ...

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