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Contact-tracing: France gets ready to launch its own app, rejects Apple and Google option
StopCovid launches tomorrow, and it will not use the API put forward by Apple and Google.
Social distancing: Google's new tool lets you see a two-metre gap with AR
The experimental feature creates a two-metre bubble displayed on top of your real environment.
Contact-tracing app: How much difference will it really make?
After a much-hyped debut, the excitement around the UK's coronavirus contact-tracing app has dipped. What happened?
Cancel NASA: Coronavirus is America's final frontier now
In the midst of all of this economic chaos and sickness and death, NASA is business as usual. That's too bad. If we can cancel our lives, and sports, and everything else, we can end our manned space program
Samsung's ECG monitoring app approved by Korean regulator
The Samsung Health Monitor app with the ECG function will be available on the Galaxy Watch Active2 sometime during the third quarter.
‘We are doing in a few months what would normally take a drug development process years to do’: DoE’s Argonne Labs battles COVID-19 with AI
The Department of Energy’s super-computing facilities are dramatically speeding up the search for a cure for COVID-19 with new kinds of neural network designs and a novel computer from Silicon Valley startup Cerebras.
Hydrow deal: Save on the smart indoor rower with this coupon code
If you've lost your routine and are struggling to find your new quarantine normal, it's never too late to reset.
When Italy went into lockdown, scientists from all over the world came together as friends to fight COVID-19
Italy was isolated at the beginning of its COVID-19 outbreak. A physicist searching for dark matter found a way out of the alienation by bringing together dozens of colleagues on a ventilator project to fight the disease.
GlassesUSA sale: Need new work specs? Buy one, get one free with this code
Get your next pair of glasses -- even prescription -- at a discount from GlassesUSA.com.
Office furniture sale: Branch slashes prices on premium chairs, cabinets, and more
Working from home? Outfit your office with all-new Branch furniture at a fraction of the cost.
Google rolls out suite of accessibility updates and launches Action Blocks
Samsung also released three new accessibility features for its devices.
Dependability demands of your VDI infrastructure are skyrocketing
Your IT continuity risks are evolving in line with your evolving responses to COVID-19. Here are three things to consider when evaluating your virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI).
Optus and Curtin University partner to build on-campus 5G lab
It will be used for research, teaching, learning, and collaboration on 5G projects.
Apple releases iOS 13.5 with COVID-19 contact tracing feature, Face ID improvements
The Exposure Notification API is included in this update, enabling contact tracing for iPhone and Android phone owners alike.
Microsoft announces first vertical cloud offering: Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare
At Build 2020, Microsoft is taking the wraps off the first of its planned industry-specific clouds, the Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare, which is due to start rolling out in Q4 this year.
UAG straps for Samsung Galaxy Watch models: Nylon and leather stylish options
Samsung's line of Galaxy Watches support quick release band options and the excellent case maker, UAG, just released three strap options for several models.
Pad & Quill Lowry Cuff Edition for Apple Watch: 3-piece aviator band offers style and quality
There are some extremely expensive cuff style bands for the Apple Watch, but thankfully the folks at Pad & Quill offer an affordable, exquisitely constructed handmade leather option for less than $100. This new Edition one improves upon its previous Lowry Cuff model too.
InvisibleShield Glass+ 360 for Apple Watch: Protects the display and edges of your smartwatch
Wearing your Apple Watch daily means it is out there exposed to contact with various objects so it's not bad insurance to protect that display with a glass protector. ZAGG also includes a bumper to protect the edges of the Apple Watch.
CES 2019: Health gadgets and tech take center stage
Healthcare, both physical and mental, has become the focus of some vendors at CES this year.
Last-minute back-to-school tech supplies for under $200
Add these useful, cool tech items to your back-to-school list for 2018.
These wearable tech brands are a huge disappointment
Have ever quit using a fitness tracker, and if so, why? Here is what respondents to a survey hated about their trackers -- and which came out on top.
DoE’s Argonne Lab super-charges COVID-19 drug discovery with AI
Tiernan Ray says the Argonne National Laboratory is accelerating its use of neural networks to find cures for COVID-19 -- with the help of a super-fast computer from Silicon Valley startup Cerebras Systems. Read more: https://zd.net/3gwAuyS
Google rolls out suite of accessibility updates and launches Action Blocks
Samsung also released three new accessibility features for its devices.
Optus and Curtin University partner to build on-campus 5G lab
It will be used for research, teaching, learning, and collaboration on 5G projects.
Physicists worldwide come together to build dirt-cheap, open-source ventilator
Tiernan Ray says, while under lockdown in Italy at the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak, scientist Cristiano Galbiato rallied over 100 colleagues from around the globe to help him design a breakthrough ventilator that could spur a new, low-cost supply of the devices. Read more: https://zd.net/2WM8Nug
Monash University researchers use AI technology to examine hospital readmissions
In hope that it will relieve some pressure off the healthcare system.
Google research: COVID-19 super-spreaders should be included in projection models
Google data scientists constructed a simulation of how super-spreaders, people with above-average numbers of contacts, spread COVID-19. One of the findings of the research is that testing for infection needs to be more selective than simply mass-testing everyone in the population.
How telemedicine is helping the fight against COVID-19
Dr. Jason Hallock, chief medical officer, SOC Telemed, sits down with Tonya Hall to talk about ways that the health and tech industries have had to work together in order to safely combat the dangers of the COVID-19 crisis.
Formlabs gets FDA approval to 3D print key ventilator piece
The 3D printing company has received emergency clearance to print adapters designed to convert BiPAP machines into ventilators.
Contact tracing: COVID-19 panacea or privacy nightmare?
Does Apple and Google’s plan to fight COVID-19 go too far, or not far enough? Jason Perlow and Jason Cipriani debate the merits of this controversial partnership in another episode of Jason Squared.
Why the NHS snubbed Google and Apple's API for contact tracing
Daphne Leprince-Ringuet explains that the UK's health services is going solo to develop a coronavirus contact-tracing app. Here is why. Read more: https://zd.net/2ziaC8E
Garmin: How wearable data can aid COVID-19 treatment, research
ZDNet's Larry Dignan spoke with Phil McClendon, lead product manager for Garmin consumer wearables, and Sean McNamara, who manages sales and marketing for the Garmin Health, about how wearable data can help researchers battle COVID-19.
Apple releases iOS 13.5 beta with COVID-19 contact tracing feature
The first release gives developers the tools and API they'll need to build apps and services to track and alert you of potential exposure.
Samsung's blood pressure app approved by South Korean regulator
The app measures blood pressure when paired with a smartwatch.
Coronavirus: How NHS contract-tracing app will protect your data
NHS insists the public's data is safe in the hands of the health service. Privacy campaigners want more detail.
Alexa, call my son! Seniors embrace tech in lockdown era
Technology use is up among seniors looking to fend off loneliness. Their changing habits shed new light on why some tools like voice assistants are more useful than others.
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