15-04-2020 15:20 via feedproxy.google.com

EU welcomes Apple-Google contact-tracing tech

Technologists in the EU and elsewhere are focusing on contact-tracing as they race to try to use Bluetooth short-range communications between devices as a proxy for measuring the risk that a person infected with the coronavirus can pass it on.
Apple and Google team on cross-platform COVID-19 contact tracing tool. Click for larger view (Source: Apple and Google)
Douglas Busvine for Reuters:Apple and Alphabet’s Google said last week that they would launch tools to support such applications i
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