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 ...

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 ...

When Singapore launched the first smartphone app of its kind last month to identify and alert people who had interacted with carriers of the novel coronavirus, the city-state of roughly 5.7 million ...

Those apps that scan for devices using Bluetooth could sound great. The AirPods have fallen out of the ear and they're somewhere in the house. Whip open the app to find them. Or that lost phone, ...

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As more governments turn to contact tracing apps to aid in their efforts to contain the coronavirus outbreak, cybersecurity experts are warning this may spark renewed interest in Bluetooth attacks.

Although Tom has spent many years building a career in corporate IT, his passion has always been following what's coming in consumer gadgetry, and getting his hands on as much of it as possible for ...

The Philips Hue app that you use to connect and control your Hue lights and accessories via a Hue Bridge is getting a major Bluetooth upgrade. According to a new report on Hueblog.com, the company is ...

Australian police officers can be tracked using publicly available Bluetooth apps due to a design flaw in a popular line of ...