Pennsylvania's health department is launching a smartphone app that will use Bluetooth connection history to determine contacts who may have spread the coronavirus. The app, COVID Alert PA, was ...

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 ...

Ah, Jack Dorsey. How we long for the days when Twitter was blue and free of rampant racism, bots, and pornography. Well, the ...

As we embrace the conveniences of modern technology, we must also confront the potential threats to our privacy. Recent developments reveal that certain applications have been tracking car locations ...

We did a hands-on demo with Find My Car Smarter, one of the first iOS apps to take advantage of the Bluetooth 4.0 capabilities of the iPhone 4S. We did a hands-on demo with Find My Car Smarter, one of ...

A previously unnoticed Bluetooth chip in the location-aware HD sports camera enables it to wirelessly connect to an upcoming smartphone app. Antuan started out in the automotive industry the ...

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 ...

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 ...

AmpMe — an app that can create makeshift sound systems by syncing smartphones and tablet devices together — is adding Bluetooth speakers to the mix. To make it work, the Montreal, Canada-based startup ...

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In context: A new feature in iOS 13 asks you if you would like an app to have access to your Bluetooth. Apple added it for privacy reasons, and it is surprising how many apps want access to your ...

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, ...