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Alphabet's new plan to track 10,000 people could take wearables to the next level

  • Written by Bennett Allan Landman, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Biomedical Engineering, Radiology, Image Science, and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Vanderbilt University
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Verily – the life sciences research arm of Google parent company Alphabet – wants to track the health of 10,000 people.

On April 19, the group announced that it was starting to recruit for Project Baseline, in partnership with Duke and Stanford. Over the course of four years, Project...

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