At the heart of all Bluetooth-based contact tracing apps is one fundamental issue: whether they actually help in the struggle to slow the spread of Covid-19. Whether they’re effective or not can be ...

Last week, Apple and Google announced that they would be joining forces to create a tool that will assist public health authorities in creating contact tracing apps to help stop the spread of Covid-19 ...

Traditional manual contact tracing is not fast enough to keep pace with the rapid spread of COVID-19. Here, technology can shorten the delay between confirming an infected case and isolating all ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The Bluetooth-based system predicted close contacts with an accuracy between 0.88 and 1. The system also ...

A new proof-of-concept machine learning system outlined in npj digital medicine could provide Bluetooth-based contact tracing tools with the means to quantify the risk of coronavirus transmission when ...

False positives and rampant privacy issues suggest we need to make a new investment in hiring people False positives and rampant privacy issues suggest we need to make a new investment in hiring ...