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Google and Apple earlier this month announced a partnership to build contact tracing into iOS and Android. Ahead of the capability launching in mid-May, both companies are previewing the exposure notification API for health agency developers. Contact tracing involves keeping a record of everyone you’ve recently interacted with so that they can be alerted if you later test positive for…

Apple has released a new beta of iOS 13.5 today, containing the first version of its exposure notification API for COVID-19 contact tracing. The beta is available to developers now alongside the first beta release of Xcode 11.5. The Xcode release includes an updated version of the iOS SDK that incorporates the exposure notification API. In conjunction with this, Apple and Google representatives…

Google’s Project Zero security team shared their findings of a series of zero-click vulnerabilities that affected the iPhone and other Apple hardware. The vulnerabilities were disclosed on the dedicated Project Zero blog, with the teams findings going into detail on just what this means for iPhone owners. The team at Project Zero found an issue in the multimedia processing ImageIO framework…

The OnePlus 8 Pro is the culmination of years of hardware and software decisions that might not have come to fruition if the BBK-owned firm simply disregarded the input of its ravenous fanbase. Since the launch of the 7 Pro, OnePlus has firmly set its sights on the “true flagship,” a device with almost no compromises, no corner-cutting, and even a little future-proofing, too. This is the…