Health – Era Recipe

Experiments show that a smartphone camera can provide you with an important health metric

Illustration of a system using 8-second facial videos and deep learning to estimate heart rate.

There are different ways to read your heart rate. Most smartwatches from Apple, Samsung, Google, and others give you a real-time reading of how many times your heart beats in a minute. Another device you can buy, a pulse oximeter, gives you a reading when you press a spring-loaded hinge, place your finger in the …

Fitbit Air and Google Health app settings on the lavender band.

The long-awaited Google Health rebrand is here, and not everyone likes it. In fact, sentiment toward the new Google Health app is so negative that Google is releasing a support document that highlights the bugs it’s already squashed and promises to “continue to listen to feedback, add new capabilities, and fix existing issues while being …