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Apple and Google’s COVID-19 tracking system will make its full US debut in new Virginia app

The Verge

This week, Virginia plans to release a COVID-19 exposure notification app based on the specifications published by Apple and Google in April. No location data or personal information is ever collected, stored or transmitted to VDH as part of the app,” a health department official told Virginia Public Media , which first reported the news.

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How to Run Facebook Fundraising Ads: 5 Simple Steps

Nonprofit Tech for Good

His work is focused on nonprofits, advocacy, and public affairs. Guest Blogger Bio: Brent Merritt runs Metric Communications as an independent consulting practice focused on digital strategy for advocacy, public affairs, and nonprofits. from the University of Virginia. and has appeared in Axios Media Trends.

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Back to school: JMU parent helps improve university’s COVID-19 dashboard

Tableau

As James Madison University (JMU) prepared for Fall 2020 classes, freshman parent and Tableau Partner, Lee Feinberg, volunteered to help improve the school’s Stop The Spread dashboard. Editor's note: this story was originally published on James Madison University News. . Sometimes help comes from unexpected places.

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Facebook reinvents Facebook with the launch of Campus for college students

The Verge

Charmaine Hung, PM of Campus, says the team opted for a separate profile because students might not want to share hyper-specific college information on their public profile. For now, Campus is being piloted with 30 universities around the US, including Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, University of Louisville, Vassar, and Virginia Tech. (No

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Apple releases iOS 13.7 with support for new automatic COVID-19 notification system

The Verge

But at the time, any given state needed to have an app developed by a public health agency that used the API. The first official app supporting the exposure notification system debuted in Virginia earlier in August. The University of Alabama at Birmingham launched a closed pilot for an exposure notification app last month as well.

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Medium acquires social book reading app Glose

TechCrunch

As the name suggests, that version is tailored for universities and high schools. Over 1 million people have used Glose and 25 universities have signed up to Glose Education, including Stanford and Columbia University. More recently, Glose has launched a separate service called Glose Education. Glose also supports audio books.

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The 10 most innovative computing companies of 2025

Fast Company Tech

The same month, IBM delivered its first quantum computer on a university campus, at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. It will join campuses in Chicago, Dallas, Phoenix, Salt Lake City, and Northern Virginia, with five more domestic locations in development.

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