Health

Fitbit will soon get health-focused artificial intelligence (AI) features, Google said during its annual The Check Up event on Tuesday. Instead of adding features for specific tasks within certain workflows of the platform, Google Research will work with Fitbit to create a personal health-centric large language model (LLM). The LLM will be powered by the tech giant's most powerful foundation model, Gemini. Further, Premium users will be able to test out the experimental AI features before they are…

Orbital sunset envelopes Earth as the International Space Station orbited 262 miles above southern Africa. In the foreground is the Canadarm2 robotic arm. Credit: NASAEquipment installs, health investigations, and training occupied the schedule aboard the International Space Station (ISS) on Tuesday as the seven orbital residents near the arrival of three crew members and a cargo delivery.NASA’s SpaceX 30th commercial resupply mission to the station is scheduled for launch at 4:55 p.m. EDT on Thursday, March 21 from Space…

The field of insurance technology has had a rough time. About 7 years ago, early insurtech companies promised to disrupt the insurance industry with new tech, but today, most of those companies have either been acquired or are floundering in the public markets. Fortunately, insurtech has found a new wave to ride in the past couple of years: “embedded insurance.” Insurance startups have found success in helping third-party companies “embed” insurance products into their customer journeys to…

An apparently happy and healthy-looking Kate Middleton was seen walking alongside her husband, Prince William, near Windsor Castle in video footage reportedly shot over the weekend. The video is helping to dispel one of this year’s most enduring conspiracy theories regarding her health and whereabouts while recovering from abdominal surgery — though skepticism still abounds, as the Palace has yet to verify or comment on the video. And now speculation around the royal has moved to a second image she shared in…

Like most other corners of the tech world, Google sees AI powering the next innovations in health technology. The company’s annual The Check Up event expanded on its plans to add a personal health chatbot to the Fitbit app, expand Google Lens for better skin condition searches and use a version of its Gemini chatbot in the medical field.One of the more intriguing of Google’s announcements on Tuesday was more detail about an experimental AI feature for Fitbit users, briefly teased last year. Fitbit Labs will let owners…

As seen in the image below, when someone searches for a health condition on Google, the results will now include a diagram that helps visualize and understand the issue, plus an overview and treatment insights.  GoogleThis feature in Search builds on the AI-powered image comparison feature, launched last year, which allows users to upload photos of their skin, such as a rash, and match them with photos on the web. Google also plans to make more visual health condition results available on mobile. The update will be…

Simple Resistance Exercises Improve Overall Health and Reduce Death RisksWeight training turns out to be as important as aerobic activity for warding off diseaseBy Lydia Denworth I’ve always been unwilling to be pressed into bench-pressing. Lifting weights seemed the province of serious athletes looking to improve performance or men looking to bulk up. Instead I walk several miles every day and do yoga regularly. But although research into resistance and strength training is still catching up to that on aerobic exercise,…

Matthew Miller/ZDNETWearables track important biometric data that can tell you about your personal health, habits, and more. However, interpreting this data takes time, so Google Research and Fitbit are partnering to use artificial intelligence (AI) to make the analysis process easier. On Tuesday, at The Check Up, Google Health's annual event, Google Research and Fitbit announced they are working together to build a Personal Health Large Language model (LLM) that gives users more insights and recommendations based on…

Nvidia announced a collaboration with Hippocratic AI on Monday, a healthcare company that offers generative AI nurses who work for just $9 an hour. Hippocratic promotes how it can undercut real human nurses, who can cost $90 an hour, with its cheap AI agents that offer medical advice to patients over video calls in real-time.Like It or Not, Your Doctor Will Use AI | AI Unlocked“Voice-based digital agents powered by generative AI can usher in an age of abundance in healthcare, but only if the technology responds to…

Our brains are in rougher shape than we might think. New research from the World Health Organization and others estimates that nearly half of people globally are living with neurological conditions, such as Alzheimer’s disease, stroke, or epilepsy, just to name a few. Collectively, these neurological problems are now thought to be the single largest leading cause of disability and illness worldwide.Do We Have to Send Humans to Mars for Exploration?The findings are the latest to emerge from the Global Burden of Diseases…