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 …

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