Former Google X company Verily’s health tracking watch is now a real, working...
While Google is rumored to be prepping up to two new in-house made Android Wear smartwatches — which may or may not be featured in next week’s event — a spinoff of Alphabet‘s former Google X named...
View ArticleAlphabet’s Verily details its sleek Study Watch for collecting health data
For the past two years, Verily — previously known as Google Life Sciences — has been working on a wearable that records vast amounts of health data. The Alphabet company is now showing off the rather...
View ArticleAlphabet’s Verily begins Baseline study to quantify health, other gadgets in...
Following last week’s announcement of the Study Watch, Verily is starting its four-year study to quantify good health with biometric data. In better understanding health, Baseline hopes to ultimately...
View ArticleVerily loses mental health lead as Alphabet division details work on depression
As part of its broader research into life sciences, Verily is tackling mental health by using technology to allow for earlier diagnosis and intervention. However, the Alphabet division has lost a...
View ArticleAlphabet’s Verily releasing 20 million mosquitos this summer to counter...
Verily Life Sciences is set to release 20 million modified mosquitos in Fresno, California throughout the summer. Aimed at reducing the global impact of the disease-carrying insect, this is the...
View ArticleAlphabet’s Verily reportedly invests in cancer detection startup Freenome
According to a new report from CNBC, Alphabet’s Life Sciences arm Verily has invested in a cancer detection startup called Freenome. It’s unclear just how much Verily put into the company, but its...
View ArticleVerily offering ‘pioneering start-ups’ lab and office space to foster...
Back in July, a report revealed that Verily Life Sciences made an investment and built a lab for cancer detection startup Freenome at its campus. The Alphabet division has now revealed that the lab...
View ArticleAlphabet’s Verily analyzing retinas w/ machine learning to predict heart disease
Alphabet’s health division, Verily, has a number of ongoing projects that leverage technology and data science to improve healthcare. The latest applies machine learning to retinal images to identify...
View ArticleVerily reportedly entering health insurance market to drive down costs w/ data
Verily might be entering the health insurance market according to a new report this morning. Alphabet’s health division would not become an insurer, but rather work with existing ones and other...
View ArticleVerily managing data from NIH’s 10 year, 1M patient ‘precision health’...
In 2015, President Obama announced the Precision Medicine Initiative to research individualized health care. Today, that All of Us program is officially launching and open for enrollment. With several...
View ArticleAlphabet’s Verily working on noninvasive blood collection devices, like watches
Verily’s health ambitions include both data analysis and developing hardware sensors. In addition to current projects to make a continuous glucose monitor, the Alphabet health division is now rumored...
View ArticleAlphabet invests $375M in tech-focused health insurance startup Oscar
In recent years, more and more startups have worked to disrupt traditional industries by leveraging technology and big data. Oscar was founded in 2012 to improve health insurance, and today it...
View ArticleVerily pauses work on glucose-sensing contact lens, focusing on other Smart...
One of Verily’s first projects was to make contact lenses that could detect glucose levels from teardrops. Less invasive than fingertip blood pricks for people living with diabetes, the Alphabet...
View ArticleVerily partners with Walgreens on managing chronic conditions, lowering...
Technology has the potential to revolutionize healthcare over the coming years with Google internally spinning up a health division, while Alphabet has Verily. The latter today announced a strategic...
View ArticleVerily raises $1 billion in external funding as Alphabet CFO Ruth Porat joins...
After Waymo, Verily is Alphabet’s next most promising ‘bet’ by focussing on how technology can revolutionize healthcare and medicine in the coming years. To fund “growth and innovation,” Verily today...
View ArticleFDA clears ECG feature on Verily Study Watch for medical research
Verily has a number of ongoing hardware projects from smart contact lenses to miniaturized continuous glucose monitors. Alphabet’s health division is also working on a Study Watch that was just...
View ArticleVerily developing smart shoes for health and weight tracking, fall detection
Verily has a number of ongoing hardware and sensor projects from the recently FDA-approved ECG Study Watch to Smart Lenses for corrective vision. A new report today reveals that the Alphabet division...
View ArticleVerily’s OneFifteen creating high-tech campus to help opioid recovery,...
For the past several years, the U.S. has experienced a public health emergency due to opioid overdoses. Verily today announced the OneFifteen nonprofit to combat the crisis by building a high-tech...
View ArticleGoogle & Verily’s ML algorithm for detecting eye disease enters clinical use...
For the past three years, Google and Verily have leveraged machine learning to screen for the two leading causes of preventable blindness in adults. In India, this algorithm is now being used in a...
View ArticleVerily hires longtime Tesla CFO for ‘new wave of transformation’ in health
Next to Waymo, Verily is likely Alphabet’s most promising ‘bet’ given the burgeoning technology and healthcare field. The company today announced that it has hired ex-Tesla chief financial officer...
View ArticleVerily Study Watch gets FDA clearance for ‘Irregular Pulse Monitor’
Even before Google’s Fitbit acquisition, Alphabet already has a health wearable with the Verily Study Watch. That clinical device has just received FDA clearance to detect irregular heart rhythms....
View ArticleGoogle building limited coronavirus ‘triage’ website to aid US testing [Updated]
The United States this afternoon declared a national emergency to better respond to COVID-19. During that press conference, President Trump and officials announced that Google was building a screening...
View ArticleGoogle sister company Verily details coronavirus testing pilot, launching...
Following the Friday announcement of a COVID-19 website from “Google” by US officials, there was immediate confusion about the scope and scale. Alphabet company Verily today detailed its upcoming...
View ArticleVerily shows how its COVID-19 drive-thru testing works [Video]
Last Sunday, Alphabet’s life sciences division launched a Baseline COVID-19 Pilot Program in California. It’s expanded to more sites since then, and Verily today released a video explaining what...
View Article[Update: Antibody Research] Verily launches coronavirus testing in the US
After much confusion over the last three days, Google sister company Verily has launched its coronavirus screener and testing website. It does not have the nationwide capability — currently only...
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