If you have an Android phone or tablet, Google will email you soon - if it hasn’t already - to say your device will automatically beam its location anonymously to strangers’ compatible gadgets nearby.

Apple and Google are working to develop new alerts of unwanted tracking to warn people when someone is spying on their movements through Bluetooth location-tracking products. Bluetooth ...

The Denver Police Department is fighting against auto thefts by offering 450 free AirTag and SmartTag Bluetooth location tracking devices to local residents. DenverTrack allows police to find a stolen ...

Bluetooth, the omnipresent and often frustrating wireless standard, is getting a major update to version 6.0. The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) released details of the update this week, ...

Despite very public messaging that the Bluetooth contact-tracing tools for COVID-19 developed by Google and Apple would not track users' locations, its implementation within Android operating systems ...

Bluetooth® Core Specification v5.1 is a significant advancement in the evolution of Bluetooth technology, particularly for its direction-finding capabilities. This feature enhances the precision of ...

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