A profile of Swiss data scientists has offered more information about how the contact tracing project jointly ran by Apple and Google came about, including how the team got the attention of the tech giants.
Physical security keys are nothing new on iOS, but a new update announced Wednesday expands the use of keys with NFC and other new technologies for Google authentication.
A $ billion class action lawsuit has been filed, that alleges Google has been tracking users' browsing habits despite engaging Chrome's Incognito mode.
Google's entry-level Pixel 4a is just over the horizon. Here's how it might stack up against Apple's budget-friendly iPhone SE.
Latvia's upcoming COVID-19 tracing app will be one of the first to use the Apple-Google contact tracing API, and may also work in tandem with apps produced in other European countries.
Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said he is "committed" to find other opportunities to collaborate with Apple beyond the companies' Exposure Notification system.
Apple and Google's Exposure Notification API has exited beta, with the full first version of the software now available to health agencies and other governmental officials.
As Apple and Google work to build out a so-called "Exposure Notification" API and accompanying operating system-level assets to help monitor the spread of COVID-19, health experts argue the companies' overly stringent privacy policies will render the solution useless out of the gate.
Google plans to implement new limitations in its Chrome web browser after discovering certain ads overuse CPU and data resources, costing users device battery life and money.
A pair of rare images showing late Apple CEO and cofounder Steve Jobs having lunch with Google executives Larry Page and Eric Schmidt, circa 2007, have surfaced online.
Trials of the UK's NHS coronavirus contact-tracing app reveal that users must have iOS 11 or later, and battery life is profoundly impacted by the feature.
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt is no longer working with the company, ceasing to be an advisor to the search giant in February 20 months after leaving Alphabet's board of directors.
Several European countries, including Switzerland and Germany, are demanding all user data generated by coronavirus contact tracing apps be stored on-device, rather than aggregated on a centralized server.
The Australian government has admitted that its Covidsafe app doesn't work properly on the iPhone because it isn't using Apple's Exposure Notification frameworks, and an update to do so is planned.
As world governments scramble to contain the spread of COVID-19, France and the UK this week announced plans to begin testing digital contact tracing solutions developed without the aid of Apple and Google's exposure notification system.
Google has updated its Google Drive app for iPhone and iPad with a new biometric security option allowing users to protect files stored in the cloud.
Apple and Google continue to advance the exposure notification plans, with the release of more code and user interface resources to help developers produce apps.
In the rough business climate caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, Apple has taken pride in going beyond "competent business as usual" to help. But the company and its trillion-dollar peers should now take the initiative to gather testing data that governments globally are failing to handle. Lives— and their profits— depend on it.
Google on Tuesday revealed the discovery of a handful of now-patched bugs in Apple's Image I/O, a multimedia processing framework vital to the company's platforms.
The National Health Service says it will utilize its own centralized contract-tracing system, rather than deploying the exposure notification technology being developed by Apple and Google.
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