For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. You can’t walk into the intensive care units at St. Luke’s University Health Network because of concerns over spreading the novel coronavirus. But if you did, you’d see something new amid the beds, medical equipment and tubes. It’s …
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Apple tells senators it’s committed to privacy with its coronavirus tools
For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Apple repeated its privacy pledges in a letter to US senators, answering questions about a website and app it unveiled last month to help update people about the coronavirus and assist in self-screening symptoms. In the letter dated Friday and sent in response …
Read More »Apple and Google building coronavirus tracking tech for iOS and Android, coming in May
For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Two of the tech industry’s biggest players are working together to fight the coronavirus, announcing a new set of tools that could come to a majority of smartphones around the world. The new technology, outlined in white papers published by Apple and Google …
Read More »Microsoft warns hospitals about VPN cyberattacks during coronavirus
For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Roughly four out of five Americans are on government-mandated lockdowns, forcing many of them to work from home to avoid spreading the novel coronavirus. Many of these people use technology to access their work called virtual private networks, or VPNs. And now Microsoft …
Read More »Microsoft’s Skype sees massive increase in usage as coronavirus spreads
For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Hundreds of millions of people are staying indoors, isolated from one another, in an effort to slow the spread of the pandemic coronavirus and keep hospitals from being overwhelmed with patients. To keep in touch, people have been turning to social networks such as …
Read More »Apple might delay next big iPhone launch due to coronavirus, report says
For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. The coronavirus pandemic has already forced major events such as the SXSW music and tech festival and the Olympics to be canceled or delayed. Now — if a new media report turns out to be accurate — Apple may wait a little longer to launch …
Read More »Apple expanding App Store to 20 more countries, including Afghanistan and Iraq
Apple’s planning to make its app store available in more countries, pledging that developers will be able to sell their programs for the iPhone and iPad in 177 countries or regions by the end of the year. The announcement came Monday in part because Apple said developers need to fill out administrative forms on its site to price and mark …
Read More »Apple expects to begin reopening retail stores by mid
For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Apple expects to begin reopening its retail stores in the first half of April, according to a new report from Bloomberg, following international closures in the face of the coronavirus pandemic. The iPhone maker will also allow employees to work remotely through at …
Read More »Microsoft expands past HoloLens for Teams
Some companies are already using Microsoft’s HoloLens headset to video chat with workers in oil fields and on factory floors. Now, Microsoft hopes to expand that by working with another headset company to bring Teams to their devices too. Microsoft said sometime this spring, its Teams software will begin working with devices made by RealWear, a company whose headsets are …
Read More »Microsoft can filter out the sound of you eating potato chips on a conference call
Just in time for us all to be working from home because of the pandemic coronavirus, Microsoft’s built new technology for its Teams software that can identify your voice and filter out any other sounds. That could be a leaf blower, a dog barking or even, yes, you rustling through a bag of potato chips. Microsoft demonstrated the technology to …
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