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 ...

Don’t call it StopCovid anymore. France’s contact-tracing app has been updated and is now called TousAntiCovid, which means "everyone against Covid". The French government is trying to pivot so that ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

LONDON — Downloads of the U.K.'s contact tracing app surged last week, according to new data, despite widespread concerns of people being told to self-isolate amid a sharp rise in coronavirus cases.

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 ...

Back in March 2020, when contact-tracing apps were first being frantically built, they seemed to me like a mirage -- a fantasy embraced by the smartphone-toting, jet-setting class who wanted to ...