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Arizona State University adopts blockchain-based app to track COVID-19
Open The New York Times' rolling survey of coronavirus cases on United States college campuses, and the picture looks bleak: As of Nov. 5, over 252,000 cases had been confirmed across 1,600 colleges nationwide.
The spread of infection, combined with...
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New COVID-19 app can make contact tracing more private and secure
Engineers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Virginia Tech are collaborating on a smartphone app that can help conduct contact tracing needed to contain the spread of COVID-19 without risking users' privacy or personal security. Their work is funded by...
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German COVID-19 Contact-Tracing Vulnerability Allowed RCE
A security vulnerability in the infrastructure underlying Germany’s official COVID-19 contact-tracing app, called the Corona-Warn-App (CWA), would have allowed pre-authenticated remote code execution (RCE).
Researcher Alvaro Muñoz wrote in a report this week that he and his team at GitHub...
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Google launches end-to-end encryption for Android messages
Google said that it will be rolling out end-to-end encryption for Android users, making it harder for anyone including law enforcement to read the content of messages.
"End-to-end encryption ensures that no one, including Google and third parties, can read...
Infrastructure
Vodafone strikes technology infrastructure deal with Sumitomo
UK's Vodafone Group and Japanese trading house Sumitomo Corp will collaborate on international technology infrastructure and digital services projects, the companies said on Thursday, without providing further details on the alliance.
Vodafone, Europe's largest mobile and fixed network operator, said...
Enterprise IT
Application of Technology in Asset and Inventory Management
Asset management has always been a big challenge for a lot of businesses. Technology has come in to help and over the past decade or two, we have seen an increase in the number of businesses using technology, particularly...
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Scientists develop app that uses AI to diagnose asymptomatic Covid-19 cases
Researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US have found that asymptomatic cases of Covid-19 may differ from healthy individuals in the way that they cough.
Scientists have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) model that they claim can...
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