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Could your wearable technology stop your medical devices from working?

Sam Lambert
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Should you be wearing a Fitbit if you’ve also got a pacemaker? Wearable technology such as fitness trackers and smartwatches have become extremely popular, as bioimpedance sensing tech help us to keep track of a number of helpful health stats. However, according to new research, that same tech could be affecting the way that implanted medical devices, such as pacemakers, function. Smartwatches, smart rings, smart scales, fitness trackers and other gadgets can all cause interference. The study was published in the Heart Rhythm journal showed that a broad spectrum of…

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PhonePe mobile payments company gets $200 million investment from Walmart

Jorge Gonzalez
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The Indian company raised the funds as a component of an ongoing round. PhonePe, a mobile payments giant from India, has announced that an investment from Walmart has brought it another $200 million in funding as a part of an ongoing round that has already helped it bring in $650 million. The funding has arrived regardless of the economic downturn. PhonePe has been bringing in funds too help build itself up in the face of its upcoming separation from Flipkart, its parent company. Walmart already owns the majority of the…

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Classroom QR codes to boost UNC Emergency Preparedness

Stephanie Beck
QR codes - University of North Carolina

The University of North Carolina is using the barcodes and an app to improve safety. A group of University of North Carolina (UNC) faculty, including representatives from Campus Safety, University Police, the Center for Faculty Excellence, biology professor Kelly Hogan and others have developed and launch new emergency preparedness projects including classroom QR codes. The barcodes are placed on the podiums of large lecture halls to inform faculty in case of emergency. Scanning the QR codes provides the faculty member – or whoever else happens to be at the front…

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Criminals in Brazil are benefiting from Elon Musk’s Starlink internet service

L. Green
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The technology was meant to provide connectivity in the Amazon rainforest, but criminals are using it. Brazilian federal agents are increasingly finding Starlink internet units on the sites they raid in the Amazon rainforest. The agents are shot at, and the criminals often escape, but the technology is being left behind. Starlink internet services are a division of Elon Musk’s SpaceX. The company has nearly 4,000 satellites in low orbit, providing with people in remote areas of the world – such as the Amazon rainforest – with online connectivity. The…

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All social media apps have risks similar to TikTok

John Montgallo
different Social media apps

A transparency group is cautioning that the Chinese platform isn’t the only one posing risks. A nonprofit advocacy group called the Tech Oversight Project is urging Congress to hold US social medias accountable ahead of hearing testimony from TikTok’s CEO. The group says the US platforms pose similar national security and mental health risks to TikTok. The nonprofit has stated that Alphabet Inc.’s Google, Meta Platforms Inc.’s social media apps such as Facebook and Instagram, Apple Inc and Amazon.com Inc’s products all employ comparable harmful business practices to TikTok. Moreover,…

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