Government agencies and health services around the world are working together to find ways to counteract the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus in order to protect people and help society return to its normal life.

Software developers also contribute by creating technical tools to contain the virus and save lives.

Following the spirit of worldwide collaboration, Google and Apple have begun to jointly develop technology that will help governments and health services use Bluetooth to combat the spread of the virus. The basic principles of the new technology are the security and privacy of users.

As long as COVID 19 coronavirus can be transmitted from infected people to those near them, health authorities have come to the conclusion that contact tracing is one of the most effective ways to contain the pandemic. The world’s leading healthcare services, universities and nonprofit organizations from around the world are already developing technologies for voluntary contact tracing. To support these efforts, Apple and Google will soon launch a comprehensive solution that will include application programming interfaces (APIs) and operating system-level technologies to help launch contact tracing. Given the urgency of this issue, this solution is planned to be implemented in two stages.

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We would like to address to you in this hard time of the worldwide pandemic, self-quarantine, and isolation to inform you that we fully share the same feelings of surreal and uneasiness. Most of us are being asked to work from home. Social media are full of disturbing posts. But despite all this, we must not forget that after the storm comes nice weather. So what we suggest doing right now is to lie low, try to stay calm and we will be informing you about interesting trends in the world of information technology that always appear.

Hopefully, you’ll have plenty of time to check out what we keep offering to you. Thanks for your understanding and patience, keep washing your hands and — events or no events in the digital world — we’ll see you very soon.