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The NHS COVID app: what's gone wrong?

... outbreak - was supposed to involve a 'contact tracing' app that has failed to materialise. The app was intended to help find people who have been in close ... direction of what they're looking at doing. They had an app, they were testing it on the Isle of Wight, and it ...

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App shown to help with OCD symptoms

... the University of Cambridge have designed a smartphone app for people with the condition, and early studies have ... this what inspired you? Why did you set out to design this app? Barbara - Yeah. We set out to design the app because the two treatments that there are: the cognitive ...

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The NHS coronavirus app, rated

The NHS’ mobile phone app designed to tackle COVID-19 - currently being tested on ... that normally involves interviews and questionnaires; the app is for catching connections that the old methods would ... engineer Greig Paul... Greig - When you're using the app, you don't need to do anything. In the background, ...

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Are Covid-19 contact apps data safe?

The NHS contact tracing app is causing controversy. It's a departure from the ... and location tracking) using their Covid-19 tracking app. They would also like to be able to access all of the ... Focusses on privacy at the expense of the utility of the app for contact tracing. These apps only perform task 1 ...

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The World's First Certified Contraceptive App

Last month the fertility app Natural Cycles became the world's first app to be certified as a method of contraception. Chris Smith ... her temperature in the morning then enters it into the app, and then the algorithm crunches the data and returns a ...

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Apps are selling your personal data

You've probably heard the phrase "there's an app for that" - be it Facebook, Angry Birds, Google Maps, ... So it's no wonder we tend to just hit 'accept' when an app asks for permission to use our device's camera, have ... or even look at our location. But why does a game app need to know this information? And what exactly are these ...

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An app for avoiding busy supermarkets

... PhD student Yohan Iddawela, who told Chris Smith about his app for just that… Yohan - Crowdless is a free app that shows you how crowded supermarkets are, so you can ... Columbia to COVID! How did you manage to repurpose the app to do this? Yohan - We were using some of the same ...

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Walking for well-being

A new prototype app for smartphones has been made aiming to help older people ... of York’s Dr Chris Power, who was technical lead on the app… Chris - We do know from reports, such as those that ... getting out. So what we’re trying to do is look at an app that would help people get out from the house and plan ...

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Covid appdate

The England and Wales NHS test and trace app has been - finally - released! This public health tool, ... a positive COVID test if you got tested at a hospital. The app was originally very similar to Australia’s version, ... They must have that information, right? Because the app interacts actively with an Amazon server at least once a ...

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The future of digital contact tracing

... Germany launched what it claims is the world’s best app for covid contact tracing. We were expecting ours in May, ... security engineer Greig Paul... Greig - They had an app, they were testing it on the Isle of Wight. And it ... route of contact tracing. So what’s next? What if the app doesn’t happen? Where does digital contact tracing go ...

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Are period tracking apps a privacy concern?

... the news in the US. The concern is that the data in your app would be potentially used as incriminating evidence, if ... Yes. I think there are definitely valid concerns. Lots of app companies have stepped up to be reassuring, which is nice ... that's a special set of rules. While it's nice that app companies are often recognizing this. I wouldn't ...

Cosmic ray detector app

... cosmic ray detector has never been easier, thanks to a new app called DECO (Distributed Electronic Cosmic-Ray ... Observatory). Using a smartphone camera, the DECO app picks up muons, one of the main types ... effect," says Justin Vandenbroucke, the creator of the app and professor of physics at the University of ...

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Anosmia now on the Covid-19 symptom list

... a free phone application called the "Covid Symptom Study App" launched by Kings College London researcher Tim Spector, ... taste and they were telling us there was nowhere on the app. So we quickly added it to the app and within about a week we had enough cases that we knew ...

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The video games that improve kids’ social skills

... The race is just one scenario in Gomins, a games app designed by Alava Reyes to help parents detect emotional ... up too soon or too late.’ Dr Peña says the point of the app is to test skills such as stress control, ... recognition and tolerance. Throughout a game, the app records the child’s responses in order to flag ...

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An app for anaemia at your fingertips

... way to do this. And so I have developed a smartphone app that's able to measure the color of someone's fingernails ... capture the image and then process the image with the app and it extracts the colour and that's what tells you ... level will be? Rob - Yes exactly. A user can download the app on their phone and simply take an image of their ...

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Q&A: Listening for Covid-19

... UK. Prof. Mascolo has developed a sound-collecting app to help train artificial intelligence to detect the ... collect. Is this what led you to build the Covid-19 Sounds app? Our project actually started in October before the ... (which went live at the start of April) and an Android app (launched a few weeks later) that people can download. We ...

A mindfulness app

... University psychiatrist who has designed a mindfulness app.... Tom - I think there is a growing recognition of ... So if you were to go out and search for mindfulness app and to download it on their phone, most of the apps would ... the past or the future. So what we’ve done in the Mindz app, which gives the first meditation feedback within the ...

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Brain-Training App Impacts Vary

If you go onto an app store and type “brain training”, you are confronted ... skills is still lacking... Anja - Almost everyone has an app that is mentally challenging. Some of them are for fun, ... are that you will not only improve on the game or on the app itself, but it might transfer to other areas of your life ...

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Technology: transforming healthcare?

... of hospitals - or the doctor's surgery - altogether. A new App called Babylon Health claims it can bring a medical ... took Chris Smith through the fine print... Ali - It's an app that brings you to your doctor as much as possible in ... bit - so people with a smartphone, you would download this app and install it and then it would be what, a pay per go ...

An app to help jet lag

... University of Michigan spoke to Chris Smith about a new app called Entrain which he says will help. Chris - How does this work? Danny - The app that we've just released, we used mathematics to ... an individual from one time zone to another. And so, the app puts this research in the hands of individuals. Chris - ...

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Midwifery app helps screen birth conditions

... lecturer at Anglia Ruskin University has developed a new app that aims to help healthcare practitioners, educators and ... at hips, heart, eyes, and testes in these babies. But the app actually covers much more than that because it's a ... recorder. It's about networking, I think, and that this app has really enabled that. Chris - Is this effectively that ...

A new smartphone app could use the power of a crowd to return a stolen bike to its owner.

How a smartphone could find your stolen bike

... research project called City.Risks which has developed an app that networks all the smartphones in an area through an ... is linked up to crime data so a tourist can download the app and then be warned if they are about to venture into a ... said Costicoglou. 'They can also receive in the mobile app information alerts from city authorities for something ...

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Smartphones detect ear infections

An app to detect fluid in the middle ears of babies and ... restricts eardrum vibration, producing a narrower dip. The app uses the shape of the dip to compute the likelihood of ... expensive equipment restricted to professional use, the app uses hardware already built into the smartphone. ...

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What's causing the UK Pingdemic?

... over 500,000 people got a ping, a little message on that app and were advised to self-isolate. So these people are ... somebody tests positive, they have the virus, and then the app finds out who they'd been close to, normally around less ... have been confined to their homes because the Covid-19 app has pinged them and told them they’ve been in contact ...