Samsung launched the Galaxy Watch 5 series last year with a suite of health sensors, including everything it needed to detect atrial fibrillation (AFib) like the Apple Watch. However, it wasn’t allowed to do that until now. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared Samsung to provide AFib monitoring …
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Apple recently confirmed a report that claimed it was planning to go hunting for illegal materials on iPhones. This, from a company that has long promoted its privacy protections. Condemnation was swift from civil liberties groups, but many have withheld judgment because of Apple’s intended target: images of child sexual …
Read More »Early cancer detection startup GRAIL closes on $900 million in Series B funding
Life sciences startups need a whole lot more cash than most and that’s certainly true for GRAIL, a cancer detection startup trying to figure out a way to find the “emperor of all maladies” much earlier through blood testing technology. The startup, which spun out of genomics company Illumina announced …
Read More »LIGO’s black hole detection survives the gravastar test
Ever since the historic discovery of gravitational waves by the Laser Interferometry Gravitational wave Observatory (LIGO), scientists have been trying to amend and refine that data. The original idea was that the first confirmed detection of gravitational waves was the result of a binary black hole event: two black holes …
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