Online dating app Tinder is not only matching up potential suiters, but it is making it easier for them to meet up by giving them free COVID tests. The matchmaking site has teamed up with Everlywell to give away 1,000 of the company's COVID-19 Test Home Collection Kits for free to potential matches to check their virus status before they venture out on a date. Love matches can request a test for themselves and their match before their date, starting on Saturday at 7 p.m. ET, where they will receive a code to claim their mail-in COVID test from the Tinder app. According to Tinder, its members are itching to go on a date as the feature hit an all-time high in U.S. bios in February as daters looked to meet up with their matches. As of October 2020, more than 40% of Tinder members under the age of 30 had not yet met their match in person due to the coronavirus pandemic, the company said.

Fintech products are gaining popularity and pose real competition to traditional banking. According to the 2019 FIS PACE study, 73% of consumer banking interactions are digital. Fintech startups have already raised a record $100M in Q2 2020 and, apparently, have cracked the secret to success -- better CX and personalized customer service. Direct-to-consumer banks have the highest consumer satisfaction outpacing credit unions. Digital banks also have the lowest rate of customer churn.

Best known for its Wi-Fi controllers that imbue dumb room air conditioners with smarts, Sensibo has leveraged its expertise to build the Sensibo Pure, a Wi-Fi-connected air purifier for small rooms. The Senisbo Pure can work in conjunction with Sensibo's other products to improve air quality, but it doesn't depend on the presence of one. The tradeoff for this air purifier's relatively small size--it measures 7.68 x 7.68 x 15.28 inches (WxDxH)--is that it can cover rooms only up to 173 square feet (e.g., a room with dimensions of about 13 x 13 feet with a typical 8-foot ceiling). Multiple Sensibo Pure's can be deployed around your home and controlled from its mobile app once they're connected to your Wi-Fi network (2.4GHz only). A feature Sensibo calls Pure Boost can increase that coverage to 294 square feet for a limited time (more on that in a bit).

Starting today, people in the US can use Apple Maps to find nearby COVID-19 vaccination sites. You can find the locations by tapping on the search bar and then the COVID-19 Vaccines icon under the "Find Nearby" menu. If it helps, that's the same part of the interface where you find nearby restaurants and gas stations. Another option is to ask Siri something like, "Where can I get a COVID vaccination?" As with Facebook's vaccine-finding utility, Apple is sourcing the listings from the Boston Children's Hospital VaccineFinder database.

Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. Tinder wants to get its users back to in-person dating -- as long as it's safe. The dating app announced Tuesday that it will be giving away 1,000 free COVID-19 tests to 500 Tinder matches so they can safely meet in person. For its giveaway, Tinder has partnered with Everlywell, a company that makes at-home tests -- including a mail-in COVID-19 Test Home Collection Kit, which typically sells for $109, according to the website.

In 1896, Italian physician Riva Rocci published the first of four papers on an invention that is still widely used. It was his take on the sphygmomanometer, a device to measure the pressure that a pumping heart exerts on the arteries. Rocci's basic approach of tying a cuff to the upper arm remains standard, and it is a vital tool because hypertension is one of the most serious medical ailments. The CDC reports that nearly half of all adults in the US have high blood pressure, and it is a primary or contributing factor in 500,000 deaths annually--it's like Covid-19 every year. Only a fourth of people with hypertension have it under control, in part because sphygmomanometers, whether used in a doctor's office or via clunky home units, don't supply a steady stream of readings, multiple times a day and in different settings, to help determine the proper treatment.

Your iPhone will make it easier to find a location to receive a COVID-19 vaccination. Apple announced Tuesday it will display on its Apple Maps app locations where users can go to get a COVID vaccine. The data comes from VaccineFinder, a free, online service developed by Boston Children's Hospital that offers information on where they can get a vaccine. Apple product users can search for a nearby vaccination site by asking Siri or typing in the search bar within Maps. When you click on a specific site within Maps, you will find details including address, phone number and operating hours.

The newest version of Google's Nest Hub promises better sound – and better sleep. But consumers having trouble sleeping may be more drawn to its new built-in Sleep Sensing technology that uses Google's Soli motion detection chip – first used in the Pixel 4 smartphone – to know how long you slept. The Soli-driven radar does not identify specific bodies or faces, but will watch your movements and breathing, as well as track when you snore or cough to build a pattern of your sleep – and what could be interrupting it. Facebook's vaccine finder:The new tool can help you book a COVID-19 vaccine appointment Google's consumer research found about 20% of Nest Hub displays owned by consumers are in bedrooms. "When we talked to people about what they most wanted help with, they resoundingly responded with'Can you help me get better quality of sleep?' That's what people were really interested in," Ashton Udall, senior Nest product manager, told USA TODAY.

Although virtual assistants have been around for a while, and most consumers are used to dealing with them, the application is limited and the experience can be poor. However, there is a whole new level of virtual assistance on the way called advanced virtual assistants, which are capable of functioning as virtual billing agents, virtual AI/VR agents or even virtual driver/car agents. The impact will be substantial in industries, organizations and consumer interactions. But advanced virtual assistants are just one of 23 of the most impactful technologies featured on the Gartner Emerging Technologies and Trends Impact Radar for 2021. Let's look at some of the technologies that I find especially interesting. I'll examine a few that are right around the corner (e.g., advanced virtual assistants) and one that is further out (AR cloud).

Personal health libraries (PHLs) provide a single point of secure access to patients digital health data and enable the integration of knowledge stored in their digital health profiles with other sources of global knowledge. PHLs can help empower caregivers and health care providers to make informed decisions about patients health by understanding medical events in the context of their lives. This paper reports the implementation of a mobile health digital intervention that incorporates both digital health data stored in patients PHLs and other sources of contextual knowledge to deliver tailored recommendations for improving self-care behaviors in diabetic adults. We conducted a thematic assessment of patient functional and nonfunctional requirements that are missing from current EHRs based on evidence from the literature. We used the results to identify the technologies needed to address those requirements. We describe the technological infrastructures used to construct, manage, and integrate the types of knowledge stored in the PHL. We leverage the Social Linked Data (Solid) platform to design a fully decentralized and privacy-aware platform that supports interoperability and care integration. We provided an initial prototype design of a PHL and drafted a use case scenario that involves four actors to demonstrate how the proposed prototype can be used to address user requirements, including the construction and management of the PHL and its utilization for developing a mobile app that queries the knowledge stored and integrated into the PHL in a private and fully decentralized manner to provide better recommendations. The proposed PHL helps patients and their caregivers take a central role in making decisions regarding their health and equips their health care providers with informatics tools that support the collection and interpretation of the collected knowledge.