Apple will celebrate Global Accessibility Awareness Day on May 21 by highlighting its work to improve accessibility across its hardware, software and customer support.
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UK may ditch NHS contact-tracing app for Apple and Google model
MPs and rights groups have warned lack of data protection could make UK app illegal …
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Documents show the UK may re-engineer its contact-tracing app to work with Google and Apple’s technology
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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Startup Seeks Royalties From Google, Apple Covid-Tracking Apps
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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Apple promotes accessibility tech with dedicated Apple Care team, app curation
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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New WhatsApp bot can debunk Coronavirus hoaxes
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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Spotify, Venmo, Other iPhone Apps Briefly Crash for Some Users
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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Facebook SDK Issue Causing Some iOS Apps to Crash
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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How to turn a video into an audio file on your iPhone using a third-party app
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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Why New Contact Tracing Apps Have A Critical WhatsApp-Sized Problem
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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Apple TV app adds curated picks from AFI Movie Club
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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Without Apple and Google, the UK’s contact-tracing app is in trouble
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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AFI Movie Club Picks Now Featured in Apple TV App
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 show what coronavirus contact tracing apps will look like
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, Google Ban GPS Data Collection in COVID-19 Contact-Tracing Apps
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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Britain’s NHS shuns Apple and Google as it rolls out coronavirus contact-tracing app
The NHS app is based on the government’s “centralized” framework instead of the tech giant’s “decentralized” technology.
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France accuses Apple of refusing help with ‘StopCovid’ app
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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