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India Today
5 days ago
- India Today
Android 16 launched: Top 10 features
Android 16 launched: Top 10 features By Divya Bhati Android 16 adds real-time tracking for services like food delivery and navigation, showing updates directly in the notification drawer and always-on display. Live Updates in Notifications This mode enables deeper device-level security including memory exploit checks, USB restrictions, spam protection, and cloud-based encrypted logs. Advanced Protection Mode The on-device AI in Google Messages will now detect and warn users about potential scam texts, while also blocking risky permissions during suspicious phone calls. AI-Powered Scam Detection Building on Health Connect, Android 16 adds support for medical records using the FHIR standard, allowing users to easily share health data with trusted apps and providers. Medical records Android 16 also adds support for Auracast, letting users stream audio to multiple Bluetooth LE Audio-compatible devices. Auracast Audio Sharing Android 16 removes all the default restriction on resizing across apps supporting dynamic resizing, edge-to-edge content, and orientation flexibility, making it much friendlier for tablets and foldables. Big screen support If your phone suspects someone else might be watching (e.g., you're on public Wi-Fi or haven't unlocked recently), the Android 16 new update will hide sensitive info like OTPs in notifications. Sensitive notifications Text with poor contrast is now highlighted with high-contrast colour boxes, improving readability for users with low vision or contrast sensitivity. Accessibility Upgrades Android 16 Also introduces hybrid auto exposure, manual ISO and white balance tweaks, Ultra HDR in HEIC format, and a professional video codec for finer control. Camera controls Later this year, Pixel phones will receive an updated Android look with smoother animations, improved haptics, vibrant colour themes, and a fresh font system. Design refresh
Yahoo
07-06-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
‘The Human Race' to benefit ten local nonprofits
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — An event to benefit ten local nonprofits will hit the ground running Saturday in Sioux Falls. Health Connect is a local health and safety information clearinghouse that's asking people to lace up their running shoes for The Human Race. Spring Creek golf course sold for $2.5 million 'The Human Race is a benefit for 10 nonprofits here in our community,' Health Connect of South Dakota Executive Director Fran Rice said. Rice says the fundraiser had 90 participants last June, but more than 130 have already committed this year. 'We've had an extraordinary response to registrations and we're very excited that it's growing and growing,' Rice said. The cost is $75 with 75% of the registration fee going directly to the nonprofit of your choice from this year's list of ten. 'People really like that unique part about it where they can really give a hand up to one of those nonprofits that they have a heart for,' Rice said. 'The demand is increasing and we're doing our best to manage that, to keep up with it, and this type of investment is huge is a huge benefit,' The Foster Network Executive Director David Moody said. The Foster Network is one of the nonprofits on the list. The organization now serves hundreds of foster families every month, and will use the dollars to expand its storage area. 'We see ourselves as integral to the community, what we do benefits everybody in the community. There's certainly a lot of nonprofits and other organizations that are worthy causes. We feel like we're one that works well with all the others and provides a benefit to this community that the community needs,' Moody said. If you're still asking yourself 'why should I attend?'… 'Because we're helping ten nonprofits that are very pivotal in our community,' Rice said. 'It's all a part of caring and collaborating,' Rice added. The Human Race is Saturday morning at Sertoma Park in Sioux Falls, with the 5K beginning at 9:00, followed by the one-mile walk at 9:15. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Engadget
21-05-2025
- Health
- Engadget
Oura's smart ring gets better at tracking your activities
Oura has rolled out activity updates to its smart ring, including a new trend view for active minutes so that users can get a better look at how active they are for the day, the week or even the whole month. They'll also be able to add their max heart rate to the activity setting, and Oura will adjust heart rate zones accordingly. Oura now allows users to add or edit activities for the past seven days manually, instead of just for that particular day, and it now displays heart rate data from activities imported from partner integrations via Apple HealthKit and Health Connect by Android. Its Automatic Activity Detection feature has also been updated to work all hours to track movements, even for activities between midnight and 4AM. In addition to those new features, Oura has upgraded its system to be able to count steps more accurately. The company uses an advanced machine-learning model to determine whether a movement is an actual step, and it says the technology slashes average daily step count error by 61 percent. It has upgraded its Active Calorie burn feature to be more accurate by taking heart rate into account during exercise, as well. Oura can now also use your phone's GPS data to show your runs and walks in more detail within its app. All these updates are now available on iOS, but the new fitness metrics and new trend view for active minutes won't be out on Android until June. We've also pinged Oura to clarify which models are getting the updates. Aside from announcing its upgraded features, Oura has revealed its new partnerships with third-party entities. Users can now link their smart ring with CorePower Yoga so that they can track their yoga activities, Sculpt Society, Technogym and Open, which uses a person's biometrics to create personalized recovery rituals for them.
Yahoo
18-03-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Google is using AI to display crowdsourced medical information
Since the start of March, Google has been aggressively expanding the availability of AI Overviews, dropping the requirement that you need to be logged into your Google account to access the feature. Now the company is bringing yet another AI tool to Search. The next time you go online to find medical information on your phone, you may see a new "What People Suggest" panel at the top of Google. Using AI, the feature will organize "different perspectives from online discussions into easy-to-understand themes," explains Google. For instance, say you or one of your family members suffers from arthritis, the panel will curate "real insights from people who also have the condition," with links so you can dig deeper. The feature is currently only available on mobile devices in the US. Google doesn't say how it plans to prevent the panel from surfacing misinformation. Instead, it mentions that it has worked to improve AI Overviews related to health topics so they "continue to meet a high bar for clinical factuality." However, even after Google implemented additional safeguards to prevent AI Overviews from generating inaccurate summaries, and began using Gemini 2.0 to tackle more complicated questions, the feature can still return bizarre answers. For instance, an AI Overview recently told my colleague Kris Holt that the first day Canadians can start contributing toward their RRSP for 2026 starts on March 61. At the same event where Google debuted the What People Suggest panel, the company had other health-related announcements. The search giant said it was releasing a series of new Medical Records APIs through its Health Connect platform. With the update, Google says it will be easier to connect your health data with data from your doctor's office. Google also provided an update on the Pixel Watch 3's loss of pulse detection feature. After announcing it was coming soon with the latest Pixel feature drop, Google now says it will roll out at end of the month.
Yahoo
18-03-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Google launches new healthcare-related features for Search, Android
Google on Tuesday announced new products and features aimed at healthcare use cases, including improved overviews in Google Search for health queries, medical records APIs, and new health-focused "open" AI models. In Search, Google says it's using AI and ranking systems to expand "knowledge panel" answers on thousands of health-related topics, and adding support for healthcare queries in Spanish, Portuguese, and Japanese on mobile. Search already provided knowledge panel answers for ailments such as the flu or the common cold, but the update greatly expands the number of topics the knowledge panels cover, the company said. Google is also debuting a Search feature it's calling "What People Suggest" on mobile in the U.S. to highlight content from users with shared experiences relating to health conditions. For instance, if someone asks about common exercises for people dealing with arthritis, What People Suggest will collate reports from various forums around the web using AI. What People Suggest builds on capabilities like Google's personal health stories feature on YouTube, and seems pretty clearly aimed at keeping people from leaving Search for Reddit and other sources of health advice. "While people come to Search to find reliable medical information from experts, they also value hearing from others who have similar experiences," Karen DeSalvo, chief health officer at Google, wrote in a blog post provided to TechCrunch. "Using AI, we're able to organize different perspectives from online discussions into easy-to-understand themes, helping you quickly grasp what people are saying." Google on Tuesday also launched new medical records APIs globally for its Health Connect platform for Android devices. These will help collect data from medical providers and let users see this data across different apps, as well as make it easier to access the info on devices like phones, Google said. "These APIs enable apps to read and write medical record information like allergies, medications, immunizations, and lab results in standard FHIR format," DeSalvo explained in the blog post. "With these additions, Health Connect supports over 50 data types across activity, sleep, nutrition, vitals, and now medical records — making it easier to connect your everyday health data with data from your doctor's office." In other product announcements pertaining to health, Google said that the Loss of Pulse Detection feature on its Pixel Watch 3 smartwatch, which has received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), will launch by the end of March in the U.S. The feature can detect when you've experienced a loss of pulse — for example, due to primary cardiac arrest, respiratory or circulatory failure, overdose, or poisoning — and automatically prompt a call to emergency services if you're unresponsive. Google also unveiled new open AI models for drug discovery called TxGemma, following the company's launch of a collection of Gemini AI models for multimodal use cases in healthcare. TxGemma is set to be released in the coming weeks.
