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Apple has been studying ways to make its AirPods into a health device that helps with body posture, detects temperature, and aids in hearing.

The EU Parliament passed a resolution in favour of a complete ban on mass surveillance of citizens and predictive policing on October 7.

Announcing our final agenda and speakers line-up for MediaNama's PrivacyNama 2021 conference, October 6 & 7; registrations will close shortly!

4 Min Read TOKYO (Reuters) - In an Olympic first, more than 100 archers are broadcasting their heart rates as they go for bullseye at the Tokyo Games, pushing forward contactless health monitoring despite disquiet in some quarters on accuracy and surveillance implications. View of a heart-rate display on a screen during archery at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games in Japan June 28, 2021. Picture taken June 28, 2021. REUTERS/Ju-min Park Pattern-recognition software from Japanese tech giant Panasonic ...

Online Exam Monitoring Is Now Common In Australian Universities — But Is It Here To Stay? Share Published 6 hours ago: April 23, 2021 at 1:00 pm - Filed to:conversation To sign up for our daily newsletter covering the latest news, features and reviews, head HERE. For a running feed of all our stories, follow us on Twitter HERE. Or you can bookmark the Gizmodo Australia homepage to visit whenever you need a news fix. COVID-19 lockdowns were a huge disruption for Australian universities. With ...

Automation creates more work Tutors we interviewed described the additional unseen work involved. They had to write suitable assessment tasks, set up the proctoring parameters, and wade through post-exam reports to judge evidence of anomalies. Moreover, technical staff had to methodically review the content of every assessment to confirm it would be compatible with the software. Even after all this work, exams were still troubled by glitches. One computer science tutor described the platforms...