Category: APPS

The UK previously said it would not use the specially-released Apple-Google API as it would mean promising to keep user data decentralized.
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A Utah-based startup says it has exclusive business rights to the use of smartphones and other electronic devices for tracing people who have come into contact with a person with Covid-19, setting up …
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In recognition of May’s Global Accessibility Awareness Day, the company will be highlighting its tech to help people with disabilities.
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To help fight the spread of misinformation, a new WhatsApp bot has been released by the Facebook-owned chat app and Poynter International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) that can actually debunk myths …
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A number of popular third-party apps for Apple Inc.’s iPhone were knocked out of service for some people for about an hour on Wednesday afternoon. Software developers on Twitter cited a bug in …
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Multiple iPhone and iPad users are seeing their apps crashing at launch as of this afternoon, and the issue appears to be caused by a faulty …
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To turn a video into an audio file on your iPhone, you’ll need to download a third-party app from the App Store.
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These Bluetooth proximity apps are generating daily headlines as the effectiveness versus privacy debate rages on. Building on perceived success in Asia, the apps are now launching in the West. And …
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The Apple TV app on Tuesday added the American Film Institute’s AFI Movie Club to its rotation of human-curated collections, enabling quick and easy access to film classics promoted by the …
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The UK is one of the few countries that has chosen to create a contact-tracing app that is incompatible with the contact-tracing API currently being developed by Google and Apple. Instead of …
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The Apple TV app for the ‌Apple TV‌, iPhone, iPad, Mac, and other devices now features an AFI Film Club section highlighting movie picks and recommendations from the American Film Institute. As noted …
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Apple and Google released concept images of how a coronavirus contact tracing app built on top of their common API would look like. The screenshots explain how a user can enroll in the process, …
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Apple and Google will reportedly ban location tracking in apps that use their proprietary COVID-19 contact tracing system. According to Reuters, the two tech companies—which teamed up to help slow the …
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The NHS app is based on the government’s “centralized” framework instead of the tech giant’s “decentralized” technology.
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France accused Apple on Tuesday of undermining its effort to fight the coronavirus by refusing to help make its iPhones more compatible with a planned “StopCovid” contact-tracing app. Countries are …
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The NHS has released some details on how the app will work, but some questions around how it will use Bluetooth remain unanswered.
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If you’ve been thinking about jumping ship from Evernote to Apple’s surprisingly robust little Mac app, it’s super easy to do now. Apple has always packed a lot of decent software into OS X …
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