Technology

You may have recently noticed that your cell phone now has a setting for COVID-19 exposure notifications. The “COVID-19 Exposure Record” setting, as seen in the Privacy section of an iPhone. The setup is designed to work with applications developed by public health agencies to track exposure to COVID-19 among …

For the first time in its decades-long history, the event was completely virtual due to the coronavirus pandemic. That meant it was a developer event with no developers present and a tech “conference” that looked a lot like a long, prerecorded commercial. (Apple did not respond to a request for …

SYDNEY (Reuters) – Asian stocks rose to a four-month high on Wednesday as investors remained stubbornly optimistic about prospects for a reopening of the world economy, even as coronavirus cases seemed to accelerate to new peaks. FILE PHOTO: A man wearing a protective face mask, after the outbreak of coronavirus …

WWDC 2020 has already started and Apple announced new versions of its operating systems and a big change for Mac. From iOS 14 with a new home screen to the redesigned macOS Big Sur and the transition from Intel processors to ARM chips on Mac, we want to know what …

Researchers at the University of Washington used an infrared laser to cool a solid semiconductor material, labeled “cantilever” here, at least 20 degrees C, or 36 F, below room temperature. Credit: Anupum Pant For the general public, lasers heat objects. And in general, that would be correct. But lasers also …