Addiction
Want to quit vaping? There's an app for that
More Australians than ever are vaping, according to recently released data.
Mar 27, 2024
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News tagged with android
Parkinson's & Movement disorders
Smartwatches may be key to development of new Parkinson's treatments
New research shows that commercially available smartphones and watches, like the Apple Watch, are able to capture key features of early, untreated Parkinson's disease. These technologies could provide researchers with more ...
Apr 18, 2023
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Health
New app to help people eat five portions of fruit and veg a day
A new app has been developed to help people reach the recommended target of eating five portions of fruits and vegetables a day.
Dec 28, 2022
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Health
Need to show proof of vaccination? How to store a COVID-19 vaccine card on your smartphone
As new variants of the COVID-19 virus emerge throughout the U.S., a renewed push is being made to get more Americans vaccinated.
Aug 5, 2022
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Diabetes
FDA clears first smartphone app to deliver insulin doses
Add one feature to the technological Swiss army knife that is your smartphone: the ability to deliver doses of insulin.
Feb 21, 2022
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Health informatics
A mobility-based approach to optimize pandemic lockdown strategies
A new strategy for modeling the spread of COVID-19 incorporates smartphone-captured data on people's movements and shows promise for aiding development of optimal lockdown policies. Ritabrata Dutta of Warwick University, ...
Aug 12, 2021
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Health
Is Night Shift really helping you sleep better?
How often have you laid in bed scrolling through news stories, social media or responding to a text? After staring at the screen, have you ever found that it is harder to fall asleep?
Apr 26, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
How phones can alert you to COVID-19 exposure
More than 8.1 million people in the U.S. have turned their iPhones and Android devices into pandemic contact-tracing tools, but it hasn't been of much use when their neighbors, classmates and coworkers aren't on the same ...
Dec 6, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Who suffers most from Melbourne's extended lockdown? Hint: They are not necessarily particularly vocal
Businesses are protesting vociferously about Victoria's extended lockdown. It's "gut-wrenching," "devastating," a "trainwreck," a "death knell."
Sep 17, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Egypt tries plasma treatment to fight pandemic
Mohamed Fathi, an Egyptian man who has recovered from COVID-19, winced as he watched tubes running down his arm to donate blood plasma, but insisted: "if I can help just one person, that's a very good thing".
Sep 8, 2020
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Android
An android is a robot or synthetic organism designed to look and act like a human. The word derives from ανδρός, the genitive of the Greek ανήρ anēr, meaning "man", and the suffix -eides, used to mean "of the species; alike" (from eidos, "species"). Though the word derives from a gender-specific root, its usage in English is usually gender neutral. The term was first mentioned by St. Albertus Magnus in 1270 and was popularized by the French writer Villiers in his 1886 novel L'Ève future, although the term "android" appears in US patents as early as 1863 in reference to miniature humanlike toy automations.
Thus far, androids have largely remained within the domain of science fiction, frequently seen in film and television. However, some humanoid robots now exist.
The term "droid" - invented by George Lucas in Star Wars (1977) but now used widely within science fiction - although originally an abbreviation of "android", has been used (by Lucas and others) to mean any robot, including distinctly non-humaniform machines like R2-D2.
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