apps

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Fixating on sleep can make your sleep worse. But some people crave the connection online sleep communities provide.

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Instead of making the lives of contact tracers easier, analysis shows the expensive technology missed contacts and added to their workload.

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Sticking to daily medication can be a challenge, but people with gout may soon have an app to help manage their condition and prevent a painful gout attack.

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An app providing information about fines has been named the winner of a showcase featuring students of UNSW Law's new course using state-of-the-art legal technology.  

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Physical activity trackers that can also monitor our mood will be increasingly used to detect, diagnose and treat mental illness, according to one of America’s top mental health experts. 

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BrightHearts is a creative relaxation training app designed to help people observe and regulate stress, writes George Poonkhin Khut. 

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Major app developers make enormous sums from basic and derivative games, so why shouldn’t independent game makers like the creator of Flappy Bird do the same, asks Thomas Apperley. 

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A smartphone app that doubles as a navigation aid is giving people with a visual impairment the confidence to explore.