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Microsoft engineer adapts fan-tracking app for COVID-19 use

by Associated Press
| April 7, 2020 3:03 PM

A Microsoft engineer who designed an app to track North Dakota State University football fans on their annual trek to Texas for the national championship has taken that concept and applied it to contact tracing for the coronavirus.

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