Apple Watch, Fitbit data can spot if you are sick days before symptoms show up
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Best GPS sports watches in 2020: Coros, Garmin, Polar, and other smartwatches
While smartwatches often include GPS and can provide casual athletes with all they need, dedicated GPS sports watches track more data and provide much more customization of the information you are provided while working out. Most provide some basic smartphone notifications, but the emphasis is on focused sports tracking.
How robots are revolutionizing healthcare
From automated disinfection and patient video conferencing, to tech-driven surgeries, robots are leading the future of healthcare.
Apple Watch, Fitbit data can spot if you are sick days before symptoms show up
A Stanford study is showing how wearables have promise in helping to keep a lid on coronavirus infections.
Mount Sinai study suggests social media may help some people keep active during COVID-19 lockdown
What good is social media? A study between the Icahn School of Medicine and multiple institutions in Spain found a significant link between using social apps on a phone and keeping active during quarantine.
Gen Z has the most trouble working from home during the new normal
Is your company deciding when or if to head back into the office, and if so, how do you feel about it? Gen Z certainly wants to return.
Polar Unite announced: Ultra light fitness wearable with advanced sleep and daily training guide
The new Polar Unite is an affordable watch designed for 24/7 wear with all of the great Polar sleep and activity tracking technology seen in its high end watches. There is no GPS in the Unite, but its designed to provide lifestyle guidance.
Best smartwatches in 2020: Apple and Samsung battle for a spot on your wrist
It's been five years since the first Apple Watch was released, and it is clear that Apple's wearable is the best smartwatch available today. It requires an iPhone, though, so others are better for Android phone owners and those looking for something different.
Test and Trace: We'll hold onto your data for eight years now - down from 20
Still feels like a lot? That's because it is.
Contact tracing: France snubs Apple and Google but its StopCovid app still underwhelms
The country has launched a contact-tracing app without the help of Apple or Google. An impressive feat, but with limited results so far.
With unprecedented amounts of genetic data, researchers are tracking how COVID-19 mutates around the world
With access to tens of thousands of virus samples, COVID-19 researchers are constructing family trees that show the virus’s rapid spread, an unprecedented view of disease.
Australian government sinks AU$19 million into AI health research projects
The funding will be divvied up between five research projects.
Machine learning will mean more drug ads, and hopefully better outcomes, says ad-tech firm DeepIntent
Machine learning firm DeepIntent is intent on helping Big Pharma reach more prospective customers. The company believes the improved marketing can also improve healthcare outcomes.
New York Blood Center Enterprise's response to COVID-19
New York Blood Center (NYBCe), located in the epicenter of the pandemic, share their response to stabilization and reopening, as well as reflections and advice for delivering on mission today.
Telehealth data breaches to worsen as adoption skyrockets
The stakes are high, and a rush to market may inevitably lead to major errors like this one.
Fitbit Charge 4 on long-term test: Good features, but battery life with GPS is an issue
The Charge 4 performs very well as a general health and fitness tracker, but power users will want more granular metrics and a longer-lasting battery for GPS use.
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.
Ethical contact tracing
Tonya Hall speaks with Chester Wisniewski, principal research scientist at Sophos, about contact tracing and the best ways to balance data gathering, tracking, and privacy.
Using a neural network for COVID-19 detection
Tonya Hall sits down with Sheldon Fernandez, CEO of DarwinAI, to discuss how we can use neural networks to detect COVID-19.
La Trobe University uses AI to bring mental health care to cancer patients
In a bid to provide personalised support to patients undergoing cancer treatment.
Returning to work after COVID-19: What employers should consider
From the tech needed post-COVID-19, to improved video-conferencing at home, employers must juggle the needs of employees while keeping company culture intact.
The smartphone may be the new frontier in COVID-19 testing
Tiernan Ray says a scientist at University of Cincinnati is developing a simple-stripped down test for COVID-19 that can be done with some plastic tubes, a heating lamp, and a smartphone. Read more: https://zd.net/3fErdU1
This is how remote working will change our homes
Daphne Leprince-Ringuet tells Karen Roby that working from home is here to stay. How will our homes adapt to office life? Read more: https://zd.net/37APckg
The convergence of telemedicine, personal health tech, and AI
Dr. Jason Hallock, chief medical officer at SOC Telemed, sits down and tells Tonya Hall that the COVID-19 pandemic sped up the evolution of telehealth by forcing a fast-paced convergence between personal health technology and artificial intelligence.
France develops its own contact-tracing app bypassing Apple and Google's protocol
StopCovid will not use the API put forward by Apple and Google.
Lockdown surge for Raspberry Pi sales
Lockdown means more home and education use, plus the Pi finds a place in the battle to save coronavirus patients.
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.
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