You’re familiar with the feeling of your heart pounding in your chest, your blood pulsing through your veins with increasing frequency when you’re scared, stressed, or sweating it out at the gym.

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From Apple Watches to Fitbits to treadmills, there are more ways than ever for people to keep up with their vitals. So why does so much fitness tech check your pulse? Because your resting heart rate ...

CSI sensing (Wi-Fi sensing), which uses Wi-Fi signals to estimate a person's location and posture, has been gaining attention. Recently, a research team at the University of California, Santa Cruz, ...

This morning Withings announced the latest addition to its product line: the Pulse HR, a connected wearable that can track a user's heart rate using photoplethysmography (PPG) sensors that can measure ...

Your heart rate is one of the most standard yet essential health metrics. Soon, it may be easier to measure. Macy is a writer on the AI Team. She covers how AI is changing daily life and how to make ...

Computer Science and Engineering Ph.D. student Nayan Bhatia demonstrates Pulse-Fi, technology that uses WiFi signals to measure a person's heart rate. Heart rate is one of the most basic and important ...