Philips’ new personal health tech includes a fitness watch
Beyond this? There’s a $100 connected scale that can track your body fat and BMI over time, a $60 ear thermometer with historical temperature data and blood pressure monitors for both your upper arm ($100) and wrist ($90). All of the devices are available today, so you don’t have to wait to give any of them a try… that is, if you haven’t already bought something from the likes of Withings or Fitbit. More here:...
Apple Announces Advancements to ResearchKit
Creating a clearer picture of Parkinson’s disease. Since its launch in 2015, the mPower app has enrolled over 10,000 participants, making it the largest Parkinson’s study in history — with 93 percent of participants never having taken part in any kind of research before. The app helps researchers better understand Parkinson’s disease by using the gyroscope and other iPhone features to measure dexterity, balance, gait, and memory....
Instagram should have had harassment prevention tools years ago
Each time, I did the only thing you can do when you find yourself abused on Instagram: I swiped on the comment, hit the block button and reported it as hate speech. Most recently, a stranger left comments on half a dozen of my photos, one of which was from two-and-a-half years ago (meaning, you’d have to spend some time digging through my archive to find it).After spending however many minutes it took to flag each comment about...
Instagram should have had harassment prevention tools years ago
Each time, I did the only thing you can do when you find yourself abused on Instagram: I swiped on the comment, hit the block button and reported it as hate speech. Most recently, a stranger left comments on half a dozen of my photos, one of which was from two-and-a-half years ago (meaning, you’d have to spend some time digging through my archive to find it).After spending however many minutes it took to flag each comment about...
Clinton and Kaine will answer your questions on Quora
Quora may seem an unusual choice for such a thing, but it previously hosted queries from the White House following President Obama’s 2012 State of the Union address. Founder Adam D’Angelo said in March that the site has 100 million monthly unique visitors, with about half of those from the US. Reddit, by contrast, hosts around 230 million users per month. (Trump’s AMA was not hosted on the main forum, but rather the...
