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Google's ‘Loss of Pulse Detection’ on the Pixel Watch 3 could save your life one day


The Google Pixel Watch 3 has a new life-saving feature that’s a competitive advantage over the Apple Watch Series 10.

So, the company turned to artificial intelligence, digital signal processing, and data from clinical studies to work on it, and the end result seems pretty compelling. Those insights influence the algorithm that’s backed up by hundreds of thousands of hours of user data to determine whether you’re experiencing an emergency or if the watch might’ve misread the situation. The company even hired stunt actors to play out bodily movements that occur if you were to lose your pulse in order to understand the implications more closely.

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