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Five times tech did not go as planned for the Government
09:42am, Friday, 19'th Jun 2020
The London Economic | The failure of the coronavirus contact tracing app is not the first time the Government has changed course on tech.| Politics
2,400 care home patients and staff in Wales test positive
06:47am, Friday, 19'th Jun 2020
The news comes one day before the First Minister is set to make announcements about the potential easing of lockdown measures in Wales
PHOTO RELEASE — Ingalls Shipbuilding Extends Full-Time Job Offers to 60 High School Seniors
12:00am, Friday, 19'th Jun 2020
PASCAGOULA, Miss., June 19, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today Huntington Ingalls Industries’ (NYSE: HII) Ingalls Shipbuilding division extended full-time...
Timeline: the NHS Test and Trace App - Evening Telegraph
11:49pm, Thursday, 18'th Jun 2020
After months of development, the Government has abandoned its own contact-tracing app in favour of a design by tech giants Apple and Google.
Timeline: the NHS Test and Trace App - Evening Express
11:49pm, Thursday, 18'th Jun 2020
After months of development, the Government has abandoned its own contact-tracing app in favour of a design by tech giants Apple and Google.
Ministers show how world beating they are all over again | John Crace
07:23pm, Thursday, 18'th Jun 2020
From Hancock being forced to bin the test and trace app to Raab’s BLM gaffe, who can rival the cabinet for incompetence?
Five times tech did not go as planned for the Government - Evening Telegraph
05:37pm, Thursday, 18'th Jun 2020
After weeks of testing on the Isle of Wight, the UK’s delayed coronavirus contact tracing app will adopt an Apple-Google model after all.
First people to get coronavirus vaccine confirmed
05:15pm, Thursday, 18'th Jun 2020
Health Secretary Matt Hancock outlined the plans
Matt Hancock blames Apple for app failure and claims there was plan b all along
05:10pm, Thursday, 18'th Jun 2020
The Health Secretary claimed his team had "backed both horses" and had been working on a 'plan b' app since the beginning - but in May the Department of Health told the Mirror there was "no alternativ
Matt Hancock on dropping coronavirus app in favour of Apple and Google model
04:47pm, Thursday, 18'th Jun 2020
The government plans to switch the contact-tracing app in shock U-turn
Government defends dropping coronavirus app in favour of Apple and Google model
04:45pm, Thursday, 18'th Jun 2020
The government plans to switch the contact-tracing app in shock U-turn
In major U-turn, UK agrees to adopt Apple-Google contact-tracing API
02:45pm, Thursday, 18'th Jun 2020
Despite originally deciding to build its own centralised app, the UK will now embrace the contact-tracing API put forward by Apple and Google.
Ditched Government coronavirus app only detected 4% of contacts on iPhones
02:24pm, Thursday, 18'th Jun 2020
The Government has put all of its efforts behind the framework offered by Apple and Google - which is much better at detecting other phones
Government abandons NHS coronavirus app in favour of Apple and Google system
12:46pm, Thursday, 18'th Jun 2020
The app under development by NHSX - and tested on the Isle of Wight - only correctly identifies contacts 75% of the time on Android phones, and just 4% of the time on iPhones
