Online sound snippets intended to help market ring tones sold by phone operators and other distributors often are illegally downloaded and used free of charge, a new study found. Cell phone operators ...

Wearables are now a common sight, with 16% of Americans reporting owning a smartwatch by one recent count. Apple, Samsung and Fitbit generated 88% of all unit sales, according to the 2019 report from ...

The accuracy of wearables employing photoplethysmography (PPG)-based heart rate sensors may vary significantly between specific devices and activity types, but these sensors’ performances do not ...

Consumers are increasingly using smartwatches and other wearable devices to measure their heart rate and rhythm during exercise and for overall health monitoring. However, those measurements may be ...

A systematic review draws together five decades of research -- including more than 730,000 individual measurements -- to assess how a person's skin tone can influence the readings provided by some of ...

In a recent study published in the journal Nature Medicine, researchers tested the ability of specialized and general physicians to diagnose skin illness across skin tone in a simulated ...

Traditional medical imaging technology has long struggled to obtain clear pictures of patients with Fitzpatrick skin phototypes II to V. This can make certain medical conditions more difficult to ...