Oura Health Oy, the Finnish smart ring maker, is the latest wearable company seeking to move into blood pressure monitoring. On Monday, the startup said it plans to launch a Blood Pressure Profile study later this year, designed to detect early signs of hypertension — or elevated blood pressure — without displaying actual systolic or diastolic readings, as part of …
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Live updates: Monitoring inclement weather for Notre Dame football vs. USC
Notre Dame football is set to host USC on Saturday evening in Notre Dame Stadium. But inclement weather may threaten game-day operations at Notre Dame. The game between No. 13 Notre Dame (4-2) and No. 20 USC (5-1) has been slated to start at 7:30 p.m. EDT while being televised on NBC. Blue & Gold will monitor if any delays …
Read More »Battlefield 6 issues “fix” for jump momentum bug and is “monitoring” Breakthrough player counts
Battlefield 6 has issued a fix for an issue where jump momentum gets “unintentionally interrupted” depending on what weapon you have equipped. Battlefield Studios didn’t go into too much detail about what caused the issue, or what weapons were at the root of it, but rapidly deployed a fix “across all platforms” so that you can now keep your momentum …
Read More »Rapid monitoring of global land change
This study employs two different algorithms to detect land cover change: (1) a theme-based algorithm that identifies loss of estimated vegetation cover fraction and (2) a statistical signal-based algorithm that identifies spectral anomalies in all land covers. Both algorithms compare the current observation to observations from a baseline of the previous three years within the same calendar window (±15 days). …
Read More »Valley health officials monitoring cases of deadly fungus infection
Health officials across the Rio Grande Valley said they are keeping an eye on the rising cases of a potentially deadly fungus. Officials said the fungus — known as Candida Auris — is not a current risk to the public, but it can be deadly for patients in hospitals and nursing homes. The fungus spreads primarily in hospitals and long-term …
Read More »AirPods Pro 3 heart rate monitoring ‘mind-bogglingly good’ in tests
We yesterday published our own in-depth review of AirPods Pro 3, with our editor-in-chief Chance Miller concluding that the latest iteration feels like a turning point for the product. Triathlete DC Rainmaker conducted detailed comparative tests of the new heart rate monitor as part of his own review, and concluded that it was “mind-bogglingly good” … In his review, Chance …
Read More »Can Wear OS watches please adopt blood pressure monitoring?
Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority When Apple drops a new health feature, the ripple effect is rarely subtle. The company’s latest announcement that hypertension notifications are coming to the Apple Watch lineup is one of those moments. For years, smartwatches have toyed with the promise of more medical-grade metrics. My hope is that now, thanks to Apple, blood pressure monitoring is …
Read More »Acoustic Monitoring Of The World’s Least Understood Mammals Reveals Unprecedented Insights Into Their Vocalizations
It’s been said that there are many benefits to being a marine biologist, but there is one insurmountable obstacle we humans simply can’t overcome: we are, in fact, primates. Terrestrial ones at that, meaning we don’t have the upper hand when it comes to tracking animals like whales in their natural environment. For this reason, many whales are some of …
Read More »Apple Debuts AirPods Pro 3 With Pulse Monitoring, Better Fit – Bloomberg
Apple Debuts AirPods Pro 3 With Pulse Monitoring, Better Fit Bloomberg Introducing AirPods Pro 3, the ultimate audio experience Apple Apple shows new AirPods Pro with live translation, blood pressure monitor in latest Apple Watch Reuters Apple’s Live Translation Is Fluent in Convenience, Not Culture CNET Apple debuts AirPods Pro 3 with improved audio and built-in heart rate tracking Yahoo Finance Source link
Read More »Researchers claim that a Raspberry Pi’s Wi-Fi can provide “clinical-level heart rate monitoring” without the need for a wearable
Summary Wi-Fi signals and machine learning can noninvasively process heart rate with clinical-level accuracy in under 5 seconds. After being tested on 118 people, it read pulse during motion using a $30 Raspberry Pi chip. If successful, it could enable contactless heart monitoring without wearables. When you want to track your health, you’d usually have to shell out for a …
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