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Connected thermometers track flu season.

Google Flu Trends, as a website open to the general public, has shut down.

Without specifically acknowledging criticisms about its accuracy, Google announced Friday it would be making some changes to Google Flu Trends, the service that uses search data to track and predict flu outcomes in the United States and around the world.

The percentage of households in the US that do not have landline phones and rely on mobile phones continues to rise.