You might know Bluetooth best for helping you pair your headphones and smartphone, but the 21-year-old wireless technology is getting a new wave of attention now that it’s at the heart of ...

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 ...

Despite very public messaging that the Bluetooth contact-tracing tools for COVID-19 developed by Google and Apple would not track users' locations, its implementation within Android operating systems ...

The proposal forgoes a system based on location tracking for Bluetooth proximity tracking. The idea is that rather than tracking your location, the system will use the Bluetooth on your phone, which ...

How can Bluetooth direction-finding be used in digital contact tracing? For a start, the technology requires additional hardware and software infrastructure to be fully functional. For example, more ...

Google and Apple just released software to let developers create contact-tracing apps and fight COVID-19. What does this do? We can explain. I'm that 5G guy. I've actually been here for every "G." ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The Bluetooth-based system predicted close contacts with an accuracy between 0.88 and 1. The system also ...

Utah is accepting applications from companies that can supply a Bluetooth contact tracing technology to track the spread of COVID-19. That’s not because state leaders want to scrap Healthy Together, ...

Google and Apple are racing to build a framework for smartphone apps that may help reopen the world economy during the coronavirus pandemic. But what would the apps do? And how would they work? A ...

Why use a phone when your heart can contact emergency response on its own? Researchers in India say when a heart attack strikes, your heart should soon be able to send a text message to the hospital ...