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Kern County is asking residents to show their support for the on Go Red for Women campaign by participating in an online event for National Wear Red Day on Friday.  To participate, residents should wear red and post those photos online with either the #WearRedDay or #KernCountyGoesRed and tag @AHASouthernCA Facebook and Instagram and @AHACalifornia on Twitter.  “Nothing is as powerful as a community united for a common purpose,” Ken Keller, who is the 2021 Kern County Go Red for Women cha...

This Week in Apps: GameStop madness hits trading apps, Apple privacy changes, Clubhouse becomes a unicorn Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes using apps on Android devices alone. And in the U.S., app u...

Google has still not added privacy labels to its iPhone apps  Google promised that it would start adding privacy labels to its iOS apps but the labels are nowhere to be seen. advertisement HIGHLIGHTS Some of the apps include Gmail, Google search, Photos, Docs, and YouTube. Apple during the Worldwide Developers Conference had announced that all apps on the App Store would be required to feature privacy labels. In the first week of January, it was announced that Google will start rolling out pr...

Rite Aid expands no-charge COVID-19 testing program to ages 4 and older Gene J. Puskar/AP This is the sign outside a Rite Aid store in McKeesport, Pa, on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) and last updated 2021-01-21 10:47:38-05 BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) — Rite Aid announced it is expanding its no-charge COVID-19 testing program in partnership with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Effective January 22 Rite Aid says its COVID-19 testing sites will offer no-ch...

iStock As the COVID-19 pandemic swept the country, the healthcare system turned to digital tools to predict disease spread, analyze massive amounts of data, and diagnose and treat patients remotely. Virtual medicine and telehealth have provided a way to ensure physical distance and prevent the spread of infection among healthcare workers and patients. In a panel at the Consumer Electronics Show 2021 titled “Digital Health in 2020: Rules of Contagion,” tech industry and health system special...

Justin Sullivan/Getty Images This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Verily, Alphabets secretive healthcare moonshot, is overhauling its leadership structure and cutting down on CEO Andy Conrads direct reports. A new chief operating officer took over a lot of Conrads responsibilities. Theres also a new tech chief, and the company is looking for chief marketing, revenue,...

Share Alphabet’s life sciences and healthcare subsidiary Verily has raised $700 million in an investment round funded by its existing investors, including Alphabet, Silver Lake, Temasek, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan and others. WHAT IT DOES Verily serves as Alphabet’s research arm that develops tools and devices to collect, organize and activate health data. It also creates interventions to prevent and manage disease. The company often partners with other health-focused organizatio...

Alphabet health company Verily bolsters warchest with another $700 million CNBC 12/17/2020 Jennifer Elias Alphabets life sciences arm Verily says it has raised $700 million of fresh capital in its latest funding round. It comes nearly two years after raising $1 billion from the same external investors. The company says the funds will go toward expanding research including its insurance efforts and its healthcare platform Baseline, which it has used for Covid-19 research. © P...

More By allowing ads to appear on this site, you support the local businesses who, in turn, support great journalism. Challenges Hamper Area COVID Testing As California endures another lockdown due to surging COVID-19 infection rates and area hospitals are facing strained ICU resources, testing availability has become a challenging obstacle to tracking the infection. While many local places offer testing, availability is typically limited to appoi...