Apple and Google to create contact tracing technology

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Apple and Google to create contact tracing technology

Will allow mobile devices to trade information via Bluetooth.

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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