As the world scrambles to flatten the curve, contact-tracing apps have been positioned as a vital defense for suppressing the spread of coronavirus. Out of the more than 200 countries that have been ...

During the pandemic, contact tracing apps kept Americans informed of potential exposure risk with the goal of reducing infections. But did apps like this help reduce the spread of COVID and how might ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Los Angeles city and county are partnering with a mobile app company to provide new methods for faster coronavirus contact tracing and notifications about possible exposure. The ...

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 ...

Don't expect contact tracing apps to become the next passport. Photo: Killian Bell/Cult of Mac Contact-tracing apps could play a key role in lifting border restrictions after the coronavirus pandemic ...

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 ...

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 ...

There was much posted about technology helping with contact tracing early on, however the last month or two I've heard or seen nothing about advances here. Are they still being worked on? Put to ...