Google fitness app to catch breath and heart rate
World
February 5, 2021
SAN FRANCISCO: Google on Thursday unveiled an upgraded fitness app which uses smartphone camera capabilities to measure respiration and heart rate.
Google Fit already uses smartphone sensors to figure out how far people walk or how many calories they have burned, but new features rolling out to Google Pixel phones will add pulse and breathing to health data crunched by the app.
Sensors and software that make it possible to take stunning photos with smartphones or automatically adapt streaming video to how handsets are held can be used to sense respiration and heartbeat, according to Google health technologies team leader Shwetak Patel.
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Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern speaks at Labour s first caucus meeting of 2021. Video / Jason Walls
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern speaks at Labour s first caucus meeting of 2021. Video / Jason Walls
Jason Walls is a political reporter for the New Zealand Heraldjason.walls@nzme.co.nz@Jasonwalls92
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has dubbed 2021 the year of the vaccine and outlined parts of her government s plans for a mass vaccination rollout across the country.
She was speaking to MPs at Labour s annual caucus retreat in Nelson this morning – the traditional beginning-of-the-year gathering before the political year kicks off in earnest.
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The Drakenstein Child Health Study, which began in 2012, is Zar s latest and most ambitious undertaking and aims to shine a bright spotlight on what pollution is doing not only to our lungs but to our brains, to our immune systems, and even to the bacteria that colonize us.