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Apple updates COVID-19 screening app, website, adds anonymous symptom tracking

Apple has recently updated its COVID-19 app and website as of Thursday. The new changes allow users to anonymously share any potential symptoms they may have. Other collected data includes the following: Age Number of existing health conditions Potential exposure risks Apple is currently developing the tool in conjunction with the Centers for Disease Control […]

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Google announces improved security support for iOS devices

Because improved security is never a bad thing. Google on Wednesday announced that it would be including native support for the W3C WebTuthn implementation for Google Accounts running on Apple devices running iOS 13.3 or later. This improves the security key experience on iOS and allows for additional security key types to be used with […]

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Apple Research app receives update, features new hearing test, COVID-19 survey

Apple on Tuesday updated its Apple Research app to include updates for its Apple Hearing Study and its Apple Heart & Movement Study. The update features a new “Speech in Noise” test that helps with the Apple Hearing study, the test having been design to help researchers understand the user’s hearing ability under varying circumstances, […]

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Apple releases iOS 13.5, iPadOS 13.5 updates, focuses on FaceTime, Face ID, and COVID-19 contact tracing fixes

Apple on Wednesday released iOS 13.5 and iPadOS 13.5, the current updates to its mobile operating systems. The updates offer significant fixes and improvements, and also focus on speeding up access to the passcode field when wearing a face mask, introduce the Exposure Notification API to support COVID-19 contact tracing, and offer assorted bug fixes […]

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Apple, Google launch COVID-19 exposure notification API to 23 nations

With any luck, this could help turn the tide of the pandemic. COVID-19 exposure technology developed via a partnership between Apple and Google is now available in 23 countries across five continents. This allows governments to release Per Apple CEO Tim Cook: Technology can help health officials rapidly tell someone they may have been exposed […]