California releases smartphone virus tool as cases soar
AP, Dec. 8, 2020
AP, Dec. 8, 2020
In this episode of the UCI Podcast Video Series, Tyler Yasaka, a software engineer and junior specialist in otolaryngology at the UCI School of Medicine, and Dr. Ronald Sahyouni, a biomedical engineer in UCI’s joint M.D./Ph.D. Medical Scientist Training Program and an incoming neurosurgery resident at UC San Diego, discuss how and why they created […]
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Technology anonymously notifies users of potential exposure to COVID-19
Possession, not use, of a mobile phone counteracts feelings of isolation, UCI-led study finds
Data used by agencies worldwide is now freely available
Your smartphone could become part of the world’s largest telescope. A team led by UC Irvine physicist Daniel Whiteson and UC Davis physicist Michael Mulhearn has designed an app to turn the global network of smartphones into a planet-sized cosmic ray detector, according to a paper posted today to the physics website arXiv.
UC Irvine computer scientists have created an app that could allow an individual to securely store and use his or her own DNA on a smartphone. GenoDroid, they said, could potentially be used for paternity and common-ancestry tests, customized cancer-fighting drugs and more.
UCI professors study how busy families use smartphones.