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Creating an app that could help fight the coronavirus

caption: FILE - In this Oct. 4, 2016 file photo, the new Google Pixel phone is displayed next to a Google Home smart speaker, left, following a product event in San Francisco.
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FILE - In this Oct. 4, 2016 file photo, the new Google Pixel phone is displayed next to a Google Home smart speaker, left, following a product event in San Francisco.
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The University of Washington and volunteers from Microsoft have teamed up to create an app that could help contact tracers slow the spread of coronavirus.

Record host Bill Radke spoke to Sham Kakade, a University of Washington professor who's leading the CovidSafe app project.

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