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When Daniel Poston, a second-year medical student in New York, opened the App Store on his iPhone a couple of weeks ago, he was astonished to see an app for a new heart study prominently featured. Patients often learn about new research studies through in-person conversations with their doctors. But not only did this study, run by Stanford University, use a smartphone to recruit consumers, it was financed by Apple. And it involved using an app on the Apple Watch to try to identify irregular heart rhythms.

"How Big Tech Is Going After Your Health Care" is from the December 26, 2017 Business section of The New York Times. It was written by Natasha Singer and narrated by Kristi Burns.

Levi Strauss & Co. introduced a novel benefit for employees at its San Francisco headquarters last fall: free genetic screening to assess their hereditary risks for certain cancers and high cholesterol.

"Employees Jump at Genetic Testing. Is That a Good Thing?" is from the April 15, 2018 Business section of The New York Times. It was written by Natasha Singer and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

In the latest indication of Apple’s growing ambitions in the digital health market, the tech giant on Wednesday morning unveiled a new feature that would allow users to automatically download and see parts of their medical records on their iPhones.

"Apple, in Sign of Health Ambitions, Adds Medical Records Feature for iPhone" is from the January 24, 2018 Business section of The New York Times. It was written by Natasha Singer and narrated by Kristi Burns.

Your digital footprint — how often you post on social media, how quickly you scroll through your contacts, how frequently you check your phone late at night — could hold clues to your physical and mental health.

"How Companies Scour Our Digital Lives for Clues to Our Health" is from the February 25, 2018 Business section of The New York Times. It was written by Natasha Singer and narrated by Fleet Cooper.

Administrators at Baltimore County Public Schools, the 25th-largest public school system in the United States, have embraced laptops as part of one of the nation’s most ambitious classroom technology makeovers. And Silicon Valley has embraced the school district right back.

"Inside Silicon Valley’s Playbook for Wooing School Superintendents" is from the November 03, 2017 Technology section of The New York Times. It was written by Natasha Singer and Danielle Ivory and narrated by Kristi Burns.

In San Francisco’s public schools, Marc Benioff, the chief executive of Salesforce, is giving middle school principals $100,000 “innovation grants” and encouraging them to behave more like startup founders and less like bureaucrats.

"The Silicon Valley Billionaires Remaking America's Schools" is from the June 06, 2017 Business section of The New York Times. It was written by Natasha Singer and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

Over the last three years, Apple’s iPads and Mac notebooks — which accounted for about half of the mobile devices shipped to schools in the United States in 2013 — have steadily lost ground to Chromebooks, inexpensive laptops that run on Google’s Chrome operating system and are produced by Samsung, Acer and other computer makers.

"Apple’s Devices Lose Luster in American Classrooms" is from the March 02, 2017 Business section of The New York Times. It was written by Natasha Singer and narrated by Kristi Burns.

In five years, Google has helped upend the sales methods companies use to place their products in classrooms. It has enlisted teachers and administrators to promote Google’s products to other schools. It has directly reached out to educators to test its products — effectively bypassing senior district officials. And it has outmaneuvered Apple and Microsoft with a powerful combination of low-cost laptops, called Chromebooks, and free classroom apps.

"How Google Took Over the Classroom" is from the May 13, 2017 Technology section of The New York Times. It was written by Natasha Singer and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

Amid a growing call for regulations to limit the use of facial recognition technology, Microsoft on Friday became the first tech giant to join the chorus.

"Microsoft Urges Congress to Regulate Use of Facial Recognition" is from the July 13, 2018 Business section of The New York Times. It was written by Natasha Singer and narrated by Barbara Benjamin-Creel.