Bytemarks Café: Contact Tracing And The Tech Behind It

By Burt Lum

Published April 29, 2020 at 6:54 PM HST

ap_contact_tracing_smartphone_iphone_coronavirus_covid-19.jpg — A smartphone belonging to Drew Grande, 40, of Cranston, R.I., shows notes he made for contact tracing Wednesday, April 15, 2020.

Find out what contact tracing is all about, and how it helps to flatten the curve. On this edition of Bytemarks Café, a discussion about the technology behind contact tracing, and how mobile devices can be sensors to determine proximity to COVID-19.

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Burt Lum is the host of Bytemarks Café. Wednesdays at 6:30 p.m. on HPR-1.

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