Phone Monitoring Apps

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  How to Check Battery Health on Android Smartphones

  Smartphone batteries degrade and lose capacity over time, and a battery replacement eventually becomes necessary. Battery health monitoring is a feature that is now available on select Google Pixel phones with the Android 16 update. Many third-party Android manufacturers have also enabled this convenient feature, allowing users to monitor their pho...

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  Your Phone's Selfie Camera Can Now Detect Depression. Here's How

  Emobot, a medical device app, uses AI-powered facial recognition to track users' emotions and monitor mental health, helping doctors assess depression treatment effectiveness.

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  Google Introduces AI-Powered Safety Tools to Protect Users from Phone Call Scams and Malicious Apps

  Google introduced two new artificial intelligence (AI) safety tools for Android devices on Wednesday. These tools are aimed at protecting users from phone call-based scams and malicious apps by monitoring the activity in real time. The first is Scam Detection in Phone by Google, which monitors conversation patterns to determine whether an incoming ...

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  Samsung Galaxy Ring Reportedly Works With Other Android Smartphones via Galaxy Wearable App

  Samsung Galaxy Ring made its debut at the Galaxy Unpacked event on July 10. It is the South Korean technology conglomerate’s first-ever wearable smart ring sporting an array of health and fitness monitoring features. While the Galaxy Ring was initially speculated to be only compatible with Galaxy smartphones, recent claims on social media suggest...

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  Employee Claims Company Wants To Track Personal Phone, Internet Shocked

  The employee claimed that his company demanded employees to download an app which would monitor their personal phone activities.

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  Google Brings Circle to Search, Magic Compose, More to Pixel 8 Pro With January Feature Drop

  Google Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro are getting new features with the January Pixel feature drop. The January feature drop update comes with the new Circle to Search feature found on the Galaxy S24 series of smartphones. It also adds a new mode to the thermometer app on the Pixel 8 Pro, and generative AI features on the flagship phone.

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  Samsung SeeColors Accessibility Mode for Colour Blind Users Added to 2023 TV and Monitor Lineup: Details

  SeeColors — Samsung's accessibility app for users with colour vision deficiency (CVD) or colour blindness — is coming to Samsung TVs and monitors launched this year as an accessibility feature. Customers who have already purchased the firm's 2023 TV and monitor models will also get the feature as part of a software update, according to Samsung.

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  Kaspersky Finds Cybersecurity Threat That Targets iPhone Users via Malicious iMessage Attachment

  Prominent cybersecurity and anti-virus firm Kaspersky has discovered a new cyberattack threat that targets iPhone models running older versions of iOS via iMessage application. The malware, found when the company was monitoring its own Wi-Fi network for mobile devices, infects the phone via a received iMessage, which contains a malicious attachment...

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  Android 14 Might Introduce Battery Health Feature, Apps Could Use APIs to Reveal Health Statistics

  Android 14 may give users insights into their device's battery health when it is released later this year. These include details such as the health of the phone's battery, the manufacturing date, when it was first used, how many charging cycles have been completed, and the charging policy. Users can also reportedly use third-party apps to access th...

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  Smartphone App Can Assess Structural Integrity of Bridges Using Natural Vibrations, Study Shows

  Smartphone applications are capable of assessing the structural integrity of bridges, according to a new study. Researchers have discovered that mobile devices can capture the same kind of information about bridge vibrations that stationary sensors compile. It has also been estimated that depending on the age of a road bridge, mobile-device monitor...