I don't know if you've heard, but hell hath officially frozen over.
And you know I have to be serious, because I used the word "hath."Yes, indeedly: Google and Apple, better known as Valjean and Javert (or maybe vice-versa, depending on your perspective), have set aside their differences and set out to work together — on a contact-tracing system for this current COVID crisis of ours.The effort will introduce a standard programming interface to both Android and iOS that'll be capable of tracking what devices you come in contact with during the day (and/or night, if you're still being wild).
Then, if someone you've been near identifies themselves as being sick with COVID-19, the system will alert you that you may've been exposed.To read this article in full, please click here