ios News of 05/28/20

Facebook Launches Collab, A Mix-And-Match App For Making Collaborative Music Videos

Facebook launches Collab, a mix-and-match app for making collaborative music videos image Facebook’s internal R&D group, NPE Team, is rolling out yet another new app today called Collab after having just launched a new group audio calling app, CatchUp , on Tuesday. With Collab, the focus has now returned to video, and ...

Apple Fixes Bug That Stopped IOS Apps From Opening

Apple has now resolved the bug that was plaguing iPhone and iPad apps over the weekend, causing some apps to not launch at all. The issue was related to a bug with Apple’s Family Sharing system, it appears, as users reported error messages which ...

This Week In Apps: Facebook Takes On Shopify, Tinder Considers Its Future, Contact-Tracing Tech Goes Live

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the Extra Crunch series that recaps the latest OS news, the applications they support and the money that flows through it all. The app industry is as hot as ever, with  a record  204 billion downloads and $120 ...

The FBI Is Mad Because It Keeps Getting Into Locked IPhones Without Apple’S Help

Riana Pfefferkorn Contributor Share on Twitter Riana Pfefferkorn is the associate director of Surveillance and Cybersecurity at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society . The debate over ...

Apple And Google Launch Exposure Notification API, Enabling Public Health Authorities To Release Apps

Apple and Google launch exposure notification API, enabling public health authorities to release apps image Apple and Google today made available the first public version of their exposure notification API, which was originally debuted as a joint-contact tracing software tool. The partners later renamed it the Exposure Notification system to more ...

COVID-19 Exposure Notification Settings Begin To Go Live For IOS Users With New Update

COVID-19 exposure notification settings begin to go live for iOS users with new update image Apple has released iOS 13.5, which includes support for the Exposure Notification API that it co-created with Google to support public health authorities in their contact-tracing efforts to combat COVID-19. The API requires third-party apps ...

Mammoth Biosciences Partners With GSK To Develop Handheld CRISPR-Based COVID-19 Test

California-based Mammoth Biosciences has signed a powerful partner for its development of a CRISPR-based test for COVID-19, which would aim to delivery accurate, fast results using a handheld, disposable testing platform. Mammoth Biosciences will ...

Facebook To Acquire Giphy In A Deal Reportedly Worth $400 Million

Facebook will acquire Giphy, the web-based animated gif search engine and platform provider, Facebook confirmed today, in a deal worth around $400 million, according to a report by  Axios . Facebook said it isn’t disclosing terms of the ...

Biotherapeutics Startup Hummingbird Bioscience Brings Its Total Series B Funding To $25 Million

Hummingbird Bioscience , a startup focused on developing new treatments for cancer and other diseases, announced today it has added $6 million to its previously announced Series B , bringing the round’s total to $25 million. The extension was ...

Acast Partners With JioSaavn, One Of India’S Largest Streaming Audio Services

Acast , a podcast monetization and distribution platform, announced a new partnership with JioSaavn , one of the largest streaming audio services in India. The agreement mean JioSaavn will distribute content from Acast and have access to its ...

UK Eyeing Switch To Apple-Google API For Coronavirus Contacts Tracing — Report

UK eyeing switch to Apple-Google API for coronavirus contacts tracing — report image The UK may be rethinking its decision to shun Apple and Google’s API for its national coronavirus contacts tracing app, according to the Financial Times , which reported yesterday that the government is paying an IT supplier to investigate ...

Your IPhone Will Soon Be Able To Tell 911 About Your Medical Conditions And Allergies

Your iPhone will soon be able to tell 911 about your medical conditions and allergies image Got something in your medical history that first responders should know about if you call 911? Things like known drug allergies, or the medications you’re on? The iPhone and Apple Watch will soon be able to share this information with first ...

NHS COVID-19: The UK’S Coronavirus Contacts-Tracing App Explained

NHS COVID-19: The UK’s coronavirus contacts-tracing app explained image The UK has this week started testing a coronavirus contacts-tracing app which NHSX, a digital arm of the country’s National Health Service, has been planning and developing since early March. The test is taking place in the Isle of Wight, a ...

Why COVID-19 Could Delay Interswitch, Africa’S Next Big IPO

Why COVID-19 could delay Interswitch, Africa’s next big IPO image The economic effects of COVID-19 could delay Africa’s next big IPO — that of Nigerian fintech unicorn Interswitch . If so, it wouldn’t be the first time the Lagos-based payments company’s plans for going public were postponed; ...

Apple And Google Release Sample Code, UI And Detailed Policies For COVID-19 Exposure Notification Apps

Apple and Google are providing additional resources for developers working with the first version of their Exposure Notification API, the development tools the companies have created and are working on in order to provide a cross-platform way ...

This Week In Apps: Zoom Gets Busted, TikTok’S New Record, Contact Tracing API Launches

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the Extra Crunch series that recaps the latest OS news, the applications they support and the money that flows through it all. The app industry is as hot as ever, with a record 204 billion downloads and $120 ...

Germany Ditches Centralized Approach To App For COVID-19 Contacts Tracing

Germany ditches centralized approach to app for COVID-19 contacts tracing image Germany has U-turned on building a centralized COVID-19 contacts tracing app — and will instead adopt a decentralized architecture, Reuters reported Sunday, citing a joint statement by chancellery minister Helge Braun and health minister Jens ...

First Version Of Apple And Google’S Contact Tracing API Should Be Available To Developers Next Week

The first version of Apple and Google’s jointly developed, cross-platform contact tracing API should be available to developers as of next week, according to a conversation between Apple CEO Tim Cook and European Commission for internal ...

Germany’S COVID-19 Contacts Tracing App To Link To Labs For Test Result Notification

Germany’s COVID-19 contacts tracing app to link to labs for test result notification image A German research institute that’s involved in developing a COVID-19 contacts tracing app with the backing of the national government has released some new details about the work which suggests the app is being designed as more of a ...

Apple Expands App Store, Music, ICloud And Other Services To Dozens Of Additional Markets

Apple said today it is launching its services App Store, Apple Podcasts, iCloud, and Apple Music to dozens of additional markets in Africa, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Middle East among others in what is one of the biggest geographical expansions ...