Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Robert Glatter is a New York-based physician covering public health. This article is more than 4 years old. A new CRISPR-based ...

In a new study, a team of researchers outlines the technology for a CRISPR-based test for COVID-19 that uses a smartphone camera to provide accurate results in under 30 minutes. Imagine swabbing your ...

A novel rapid COVID-19 test has been proposed, promising to provide accurate results in less than 30 minutes using a simple hand-held device, a nasal swab and a smartphone camera. The breakthrough ...

Readers are very curious about the newest smartphones. I get asked all sorts of probing questions, ranging from best/worst or most/least durable, to more esoteric questions such as which is the ...

Smartphone photography was a pretty competitive space in 2020, as the most popular brands all delivered great camera experiences. We also saw some companies resist the urge to go with super high ...

Better, stronger, faster. That is the mantra. And let’s not forget – more efficient! We got an idea of the level of performance and efficiency of 2020’s best smartphones back in 2019 when Arm ...

Tests of 5G smartphone downlink speed in the U.S. and U.K. by Ookla show that smartphones using the 5G millimeter wave bands, on average, achieve blazingly fast downlink speeds 20 times that of 4G LTE ...

While overall smartphone sales fell in 2020 due to the impact of the pandemic on consumer spending and global supply chains, the successful fourth quarter launch of the 5G iPhone pushed Apple to the ...