Quite a few apps use Bluetooth for legitimate reasons. TrackR, the app that tracks your key (or whatever else) fobs, is an example of an app that requires Bluetooth access to function.

The inherent limitations of Bluetooth will make Apple and Google’s contact-tracing apps woefully imprecise, but right now it might be the best solution we’ve got ...

A new class of apps use Bluetooth to automate contact tracing, letting you know if you've crossed paths with someone who has tested positive for COVID-19.

AmpMe — an app that can create makeshift sound systems by syncing smartphones and tablet devices together — is adding Bluetooth speakers to the mix. To make it work, the Montreal, Canada-based ...

At the heart of all Bluetooth-based contact tracing apps is one fundamental issue: whether they actually help in the struggle to slow the spread of Covid-19. Whether they’re effective or not can ...

When Singapore launched the first smartphone app of its kind last month to identify and alert people who had interacted with carriers of the novel coronavirus, the city-state of roughly 5.7 million… ...

Developed by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, Bitchat is an instant messaging app with end-to-end encryption that uses ...

A previously unnoticed Bluetooth chip in the location-aware HD sports camera enables it to wirelessly connect to an upcoming smartphone app.