Many userspace developers want a “flight recorder” for applications on Linux. While Solaris offers a comprehensive tracing tool, dtrace, Linux is now growing pieces of tracing functionality. Dynamic ...

Khronos Group, the company behind the Vulkan application programming interface (API), announced today that it now supports ray tracing, the buzzword friendly feature Nvidia pushed and console makers ...

Modern distributed systems are built on top of a rich set of microservices and cloud APIs in order to break up complex applications into smaller chunks of code. While each service is easier to debug ...

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Today, Apple and Google are releasing their COVID-19 contact tracing technology to public health agencies (PHAs) around the world. So far, 22 countries on five continents have requested the API, which ...

An update by Apple and Google to a more sophisticated version of their joint coronavirus contact tracing API should mean more accurate risk assessments by the apps which use it. In the UK, however – ...

The UK is currently tuning trials for its contact-tracing app which it built without Apple and Google's specialized contact-tracing API. Meanwhile, it's quietly building a second app which does use ...

In the contact-tracing API developed jointly by Apple and Google, location data, among other things, cannot be harvested. Apple and Google have released new details about their contact-tracing ...

Apple and Google announced a collaboration to release a COVID-19 contact tracing API at the end of last week. It will enable health departments around the country to release apps to track and contain ...

Apple and Google’s application programming interface (API) for contact tracing is now available publicly, the two companies announced today. The APIs will be rolled out through publicly available ...