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UK’s NHS working with Apple and Google on an app to track coronavirus – report
Interested to read that the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) has been working on a mobile phone app with Google and Apple that the British government hopes will help in end...
Nintendo game pulled from Chinese platforms after protest by Hong Kong activist
A popular Nintendo Switch video game has been pulled off China’s grey market e-commerce platforms, after Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong used the game to protest against Beiji...
Apple and Google plan software to slow virus, joining global debate on tracking
Apple and Google have announced that they will work together to create contact tracing technology that aims to slow the spread of the coronavirus by allowing users to opt into logg...
European Union to adopt unified policy on coronavirus smartphone apps
The EU, which has been heavily criticised by media and politicians across Europe for being ‘irrelevant’ during coronavirus is drawing up common rules for using mobile a...
Facebook launches ‘Tuned’, its new messaging app for couples
Facebook Inc has launched a new app for couples called “Tuned” that allows a person to chat, share photos, music and have a timeline of shared memories with their partn...
Quibi sees more than 300,000 downloads on launch day: Sensor Tower
The new app for the short-form mobile video platform Quibi garnered more than 300,000 downloads on its launch day, industry site Sensor Tower declared on Tuesday, as stay-at-home v...
In coronavirus fight, much criticised Facebook data helps US cities and states
Infectious disease researchers are using Facebook Inc mobile location data to provide daily updates to US cities and states evaluating the effectiveness of social distancing orders...
1.5 million Israeli citizens are now using voluntary coronavirus monitoring app
Around one and a half million Israelis have downloaded a smartphone app in the past week that alerts users who have crossed paths with a coronavirus patient, according to the Healt...
Apple doubles China donations for COVID-19 recovery efforts
Apple more than doubled its donation to China’s efforts to fight COVID-19 to over 50 million yuan ($7 million), CEO Tim Cook posted on Weibo on Wednesday, weeks after the iPh...
Video chat app Houseparty offers $1 million reward over hacking claims
Group video chat app Houseparty offered a reward of $1 million for evidence of what it said was a smear campaign against the company as it fought to quash claims that the app was s...
Facebook appoints Robert Kimmitt as lead independent director
Facebook has named the former deputy secretary to the US Treasury, Robert Kimmitt, to its board as lead independent director, effective immediately.Â
Elderly in UK care home embrace technology to beat coronavirus lockdown
Residents in a British care home are embracing technology to stay in touch with friends and family as the country faces the possibility of weeks of lockdown amid the coronavirus ep...
Home-bound users fume as video apps do not sync with TVs
Kat Volpe laid out an exercise mat and tried to sync her iPhone with her big screen TV for a fitness class webcast on Instagram last week during New York’s coronavirus lockdo...
Apple limits online iPhone purchases to two per person
Apple Inc is limiting customer purchases of iPhones over its online stores in many countries including the US and China to a maximum of two handsets per person, checks on its websi...