Coronavirus: NHSX enlists military innovation hub for Covid-19 app project

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ISSUE DATE: 21 May 2020 TOP STORIES Coronavirus: NHSX enlists military innovation hub for Covid-19 app project Organisations will work together to gather and share coronavirus symptom data from third-party tracker apps. READ MORE → Government eyes virtual reality projects with new funding Investment increases in competition aimed at fast-tracking development of innovations arising from the coronavirus crisis. READ MORE → NCSC discloses multiple vulnerabilities in contact-tracing app National Cyber Security Centre has received mountains of feedback on the security of the government’s Covid-19 contact-tracing app, and has now taken the step of making multiple disclosures. READ MORE → ADVERTISEMENT

IN DEPTH Facial-recognition suppliers race to identify hidden faces The number of companies claiming to have developed facial-recognition tools that can identify masked faces has skyrocketed since the started of the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic. READ MORE → Serco exposes contact tracers’ data in email error Error saw almost 300 coronavirus contact tracers’ email addresses made visible to other recipients of the message. READ MORE → SAS seizes World Bee Day to promote analytics Data analytics supplier SAS took the opportunity of World Bee Day to say it is decoding bee communication through machine learning, and generally promoting bee health. READ MORE → Nokia, KDDI trial fully virtualised 5G cloud RAN Finnish comms tech supplier Nokia adds to portfolio of customers trailing its cloud RAN solutions in deal with leading Japanese operator KDDI, including Nokia AirScale. READ MORE →

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