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Elon Musk says '3 years of random testing' found no traces of drug use as he fires back at bombshell WSJ report
Elon Musk said "not even trace quantities" of drugs were found in his system during three years of …
Tom Carter
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I went to the Apple Store to check on the watch situation. The Series 9 and Ultra 2 have been taken off of shelves.
Apple pulled two of its watches from shelves this week. There's no signs of them at my local store …
Haley Tenore
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Default settings in Microsoft tool exposes 38 million users’ personal data, says report
"The number of accounts exposing sensitive information, however, indicates that the risk of …
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New tool spots to identify security and privacy issues with COVID-19 tracing apps
A team of researchers has developed a tool to identify security and privacy risks associated with C…
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Singapore said its contact tracing app would only be used to fight the coronavirus, but now police are accessing its data for criminal investigations
According to the update, app data "may be used in circumstances where citizen safety and security i…
Azmi Haroun
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Singapore will give residents wearable 'tokens' that track the people they interact with in a new effort to contain COVID-19
Singapore's contact tracing app drew praise for its early rollout in March, but it wasn't able to p…
Aaron Holmes
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As Apple and Google begin to roll out their contact tracing tech, a new bill could enforce strict rules to protect user data
A new bill is being drawn up to create rules over how users' private information is managed in cont…
Hugh Langley
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Utah reportedly spent nearly $3 million on a contact tracing app that less than 2% of the state's population has downloaded
Utah's struggles to get people to use the app show how difficult it will be to rely on the technolo…
Tyler Sonnemaker
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The UK is paying contact tracers $12 an hour to do nothing because of chaotic training and problems as banal as not being able to log in
Contact tracers in training in the UK with contractor Sitel have described confused training sessio…
Mia Jankowicz
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Aarogya Setu downloads drop 90% since April
Prashant Kumar who lives in Noida sector 143 often goes to a nearby mall-cum-office complex with hi…
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England and Wales will finally get a coronavirus tracing app on September 24, after months of delay
The UK's journey to release a contact tracing app, which was originally promised to come out in May…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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You aren't legally allowed to know which variant gave you COVID-19 in the US, even if it's Delta
Sequencing tests, which pick up on variants, have be federally approved before their results can be…
Aria Bendix
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The first app using Apple and Google's COVID-19 contact tracing tech in the US is about to launch
The technology uses Bluetooth on iPhones and Androids to warn people if they've come in contact wit…
Aaron Holmes
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How Ireland built its COVID-19 contract tracing app, which is so successful that US states want to use it
The technical director at NearForm talks to Business Insider about how the firm managed to build Ir…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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Ireland's contact-tracing app has done so well that US states want to use it
NearForm, the company which built Ireland's contact tracing app, has donated its code to an open-so…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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Uber has been quietly helping governments with contact tracing for months
Uber received 560 coronavirus-related requests from 29 countries in the first half of 2020 to help …
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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What to do if you're exposed to COVID-19 after being fully vaccinated, according to experts
Some public health experts say you should only get tested if you're symptomatic, but others suggest…
Andrea Michelson
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The UK will use Apple and Google's technology for its contact-tracing app after months of floundering
The UK has finally abandoned its own contact-tracing app approach.
Shona Ghosh,Isobel Asher Hamilton
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A new audiobook of AI-generated poems has an unlikely narrator: Werner Herzog
Werner Herzog, the prolific German director, narrated an AI-generated book of poems written by Open…
Will Gendron
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Apple and Google's ambitious COVID-19 contact-tracing tech can help contain the pandemic if used widely. But so far only 3 states have agreed — and none has started to use it.
Adoption of Apple and Google's contact-tracing smartphone technology is still incredibly low, and m…