This app turns your smartphone into a fetal heart rate monitor

University of Washington researchers built a smartphone app that tracks fetal heart rate as accurately as clinic tools using only the phone's speaker and mic, though it's not ready for release yet.

Rydberg atoms detect clear signals from a handheld radio

For the first time, a team of US researchers has used sensors containing highly excited Rydberg atoms to detect signals from ...
CNET

Fitbit's Gemini-Powered Coach Comes to the iPhone and Rolls Out to More Countries

The redesigned Fitbit app and AI health coach are rolling out to iOS users and Fitbit Premium subscribers in the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Singapore. Vanessa Hand Orellana Lead Writer ...
CNN

Astronomers detect a solar system they say should not be possible

An exoplanetary system about 116 light-years from Earth could flip the script on how planets form, according to researchers who discovered it using telescopes from NASA and the European Space Agency, ...
Des Moines Register

VeraSnap Becomes World’s First Consumer App to Detect Photo-of-Screen Attacks Using LiDAR Depth Analysis

VeritasChain Standards Organization today released CPP v1.4 (Capture Provenance Profile), introducing the Depth Analysis Extension for screen detection capabilities in cryptographic evidence capture ...
Android Authority

I wish every Android phone had Samsung's Separate App Sound feature. Here's how it works

Modern Samsung phones are packed with features — more so than practically any other Android brand. That’s obviously great if you like to tinker with and get the most out of your phone, but with so ...
Popular Science

Caterpillars use tiny hairs to hear

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Have you ever walked into a room full of caterpillars? While the ...
Phys.org

Caterpillars hear through tiny body hairs, which could inspire improved microphones

No ears, no problem. The tobacco hornworm caterpillar, a common garden pest, can actually detect airborne sound via microscopic hairs on its body, according to a team of faculty and graduate students ...
9to5Mac

Silent iPhone alarms: check your alarm sound settings have not been changed

If you are having your iPhone alarms go off without making a noise, you may want to check the settings have not been reset for them. We’re not sure how many users this affects, but we’ve heard from a ...
Ars Technica

Wikipedia volunteers spent years cataloging AI tells. Now there’s a plugin to avoid them.

On Saturday, tech entrepreneur Siqi Chen released an open source plugin for Anthropic’s Claude Code AI assistant that instructs the AI model to stop writing like an AI model. Called “Humanizer,” the ...
The Columbian

From the Newsroom: Columbian’s app gets fresh look, better sound

Last week, The Columbian launched an updated version of our app on the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store, and it is a huge upgrade to the experience. Available on your iPhones, iPads, Android ...