digital health

Apple unveils AI-powered Health app with longevity tracking

Apple on Wednesday unveiled a redesigned Health app powered by Apple Intelligence at its Surprise and Shine event, introducing features that bring the company into more direct competition with health-focused wearable makers like Oura and Whoop. The update, paired with…

Google unveils wearable insulin resistance tracking, a first for consumer devices

Google Alphabet Inc. on Wednesday announced Health Guardian, a suite of proactive health features for its Pixel Watch and Fitbit wearables that includes the ability to track insulin resistance trends over time — a first for consumer wearable devices. The…

FDA clears Samsung Galaxy Buds as over-the-counter hearing aids

Samsung announced Tuesday that its Galaxy Buds Hearing Aid feature has received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, allowing compatible earbuds to function as over-the-counter hearing aids for adults with perceived mild to moderate hearing loss.

Google unveils AI model trained on a trillion minutes of wearable health data

Google Alphabet Inc. Research on Wednesday introduced SensorFM, a foundation model for wearable health that was pretrained on more than one trillion minutes of sensor data from five million people, marking what the company describes as a step toward general-purpose…