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Hong Kong's Largest E-Rewards Programme yuu Is Now Live: Unlimited Points Earning, 24 Hours a Day
Even during the pandemic, many people still shop and buy takeaway for their daily needs. yuu, Hong Kong's largest e-rewards programme, partners with more than 10 well-known brands covering over 2,000 shops and restaurants, and members can "save points and use them like cash" on every purchase.
Read article →Five Apps That Can Help Babies and Toddlers Sleep
Is your little one unable to nap well or sleep long at night? Sleep apps that play lullabies or soothing sounds may help. Here are apps designed for babies and toddlers.
Read article →HealthCap's Self-Built Blood Pressure Database: CUHK Associate Professor's Startup App Helps Guard Against Stroke and Heart Disease
As COVID-19 heightens public concern about personal health, DeepHealth's first product, HealthCap, lets users photograph the readings on an ordinary blood pressure monitor, turning them into chart reports that individuals and doctors can use to track blood pressure.
Read article →Pandemic Drives App Usage Up 40% in Q2 2020, with TikTok Topping the Charts
According to App Annie, time spent in apps in Q2 2020 grew 35% in India, and 30%, 25% and 15% in Italy, Indonesia and the United States, compared with Q4 2019. Google Play downloads rose 10% to 25 billion and App Store downloads rose 20% to 10 billion, with business, health and fitness, and education apps growing notably.
Read article →Adobe Photoshop Camera: Free AI Camera App Launches on iOS and Android
Adobe has officially launched Photoshop Camera, an AI-powered camera app featuring more than 80 lenses and filters, including artwork by Billie Eilish, Arden Rose, and Brandon Woelfel. Users can apply effects before taking photos, make automatic adjustments, and quickly share their creations.
Read article →[Blockchain] Verify Medicine Packaging with a Phone App: Zuellig Pharma to Expand Its Use Step by Step
Counterfeit goods continue to trouble consumers, and counterfeit medical supplies can have serious consequences. A pharmaceutical supplier has applied blockchain so consumers can check the source of medicine packaging with a phone. Hong Kong is the first pilot market, with plans to extend to other Asia-Pacific markets.
Read article →[Financial Education] Two Post-90s Founders' Parent-Child Finance App Makes Forbes List, Plans KOL Partnerships
Chester and Teresa, two local post-90s founders, set up the startup Mellow and developed a parent-child personal finance app to help children build lasting money-management habits. They were named to Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2020 from 3,500 nominations, and hope to expand to other parts of Asia-Pacific and add investment and insurance knowledge.
Read article →Hospital Authority's "HA Go" App Adds New Features: General Outpatient Booking and Caregiver Mode
The Hospital Authority launched the mobile app "HA Go" last December for viewing and booking specialist outpatient appointments and paying fees. In the third quarter of this year it will add general outpatient booking and a caregiver mode that lets patients invite relatives and friends to help use the app.
Read article →Don't Just Use Your Apple Watch to Tell the Time: Four Useful Apps to Get More from Your Smartwatch
Step counting, workouts, heart-rate checks, notifications, payments and watch face changes: Apple Watch seems to do much the same as a cheap fitness band. But with the rich apps in the App Store, it can do far more than this.
Read article →HKBU Chinese Medicine Students Launch TCM Dietary Therapy Recipe App That Helped a Relative Improve Hair Loss
Four Chinese medicine students at Hong Kong Baptist University have developed the mobile app "Foodmula", which lets users assess their body constitution and receive TCM dietary therapy suggestions suited to it, with more than 270 recipes now available. Its "Ingredient Calculator" also checks whether a dish's ingredients suit the user's constitution.
Read article →Technology and the Future: Contact Tracing Apps—Do Tech Companies Put More Emphasis on Privacy Than Governments?
Apple and Google’s rare collaboration on COVID-19 contact tracing raised a debate over privacy and public health data. The article explores how phone-based tracing works, its limitations, and why governments differed over decentralised and centralised systems.
Read article →Amazing Free Camera App! Cut and Paste Objects Straight into Photoshop Without Background Removal
Cropping images in Photoshop usually means tracing edges with the Lasso Tool or the Quick Selection Tool. Parisian programmer, artist and designer Cyril Diagne has shown an AR mobile app prototype that combines machine learning to "cut and paste reality" straight into Photoshop.
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