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The best fitness trackers and watches we’ve tested

theverge.com Victoria Song 2025-08-26 02:46:56

is a senior reporter focusing on wearables, health tech, and more with 13 years of experience. Before coming to The Verge, she worked for Gizmodo and PC Magazine. Fitness trackers have come a long way from the simple bands that tracked steps and little else. Modern trackers can monitor everything from your heart health to how well you’ve recovered from a hard bout of training. Even flagship smartwatches, which used to be lackluster trackers, have become pretty adept workout companions. Whatever

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Identity theft hits 1.1M reports — and authentication fatigue is only getting worse

venturebeat.com Anurag Dodeja 2025-08-26 16:15:00

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more From passwords to passkeys to a veritable alphabet soup of other options — second-factor authentication (2FA)/one-time passwords (OTP), multi-factor authentication (MFA), single sign-on (SSO), silent network authentication (SNA) — when it comes to a preeminent or even preferred type of identity authentication, there is little consensus amo

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Are TikTok Age Tests Legit? Orthopedists Explains How to Measure Biological Age

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-26 06:00:00

If you’ve scrolled through TikTok or Instagram, you’ve probably seen fitness challenges based on your biological age. In some cases, it’s funny to see people attempting feats that seem impossible for their age or impressive that they can do them. You’ve probably felt inspired to try out some of these challenges and even questioned their legitimacy. “Most of these challenges, like completing 11 consecutive push-ups (for women), doing pull-ups or performing a kneeling-to-squat jump, are quick scr

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Fancy Airplane Seats Have Nowhere Left to Go—So What Now?

wired.com Jenny Southan 2025-08-26 10:00:00

Not so long ago, direct aisle access along with the ability to lie horizontally were the hallmarks of comfort on airplanes if on entering you happened to be turning right and not left. Fast-forward a decade and the prevailing new high-water mark is now the private suite with sliding doors, expansive entertainment screens and even double beds. Qatar Airways’ Qsuite allows four passengers to dine together face-to-face, while Virgin Atlantic’s Retreat Suite offers an oversized version of business

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From pilot to profit: The real path to scalable, ROI-positive AI

venturebeat.com Carl Franzen 2025-08-27 06:00:00

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more This article is part of VentureBeat’s special issue, “The Real Cost of AI: Performance, Efficiency and ROI at Scale.” Read more from this special issue. Three years after ChatGPT launched the generative AI era, most enterprises remain trapped in pilot purgatory. Despite billions in AI investments, the majority of corporate AI initiatives

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Can AI run a physical shop? Anthropic’s Claude tried and the results were gloriously, hilariously bad

venturebeat.com Michael Nuñez 2025-08-27 10:28:07

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Picture this: You give an artificial intelligence complete control over a small shop. Not just the cash register — the whole operation. Pricing, inventory, customer service, supplier negotiations, the works. What could possibly go wrong? New Anthropic research published Friday provides a definitive answer: everything. The AI company’s ass

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Apple TV+ confirms return date for award-winning animated series ‘Stillwater’

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-08-27 14:44:39

Stillwater is one of the highest-rated Apple TV+ shows for kids, and it has snatched quite a few awards since it premiered in 2020. And after a two-year hiatus since the end of last season, Apple has officially confirmed the show’s return date for season 4. Stillwater returns for season 4 on August 1 For those unfamiliar, Stillwater is Apple’s gentle, mindfulness-focused animated series based on Jon J Muth’s bestselling Zen book collection. The show follows three siblings, Karl, Addy, and Mic

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Project Vend: Can Claude run a small shop? (And why does that matter?)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-27 12:09:14

We let Claude manage an automated store in our office as a small business for about a month. We learned a lot from how close it was to success—and the curious ways that it failed—about the plausible, strange, not-too-distant future in which AI models are autonomously running things in the real economy. Anthropic partnered with Andon Labs, an AI safety evaluation company, to have Claude Sonnet 3.7 operate a small, automated store in the Anthropic office in San Francisco. Here is an excerpt of

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Xiaomi launches cut-price Smart Band 10 in global markets

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-28 19:59:13

Xiaomi TL;DR Xiaomi has revealed all about the newly launched Xiaomi Smart Band 10. The device debuts with a 1.72-inch display, AI-powered fitness tracking, heart rate broadcasting, and deeper integration across Xiaomi’s ecosystem. Pricing for the Xiaomi Smart Band 10 starts at $49.90 in global markets. After weeks of leaks and speculation, Xiaomi has officially pulled back the curtain on the Smart Band 10, the latest addition to its wildly popular fitness tracker lineup. The new wearable fe

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Xiaomi launches its newest budget fitness tracker, the Xiaomi Smart Band 10

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-28 21:22:13

Xiaomi TL;DR Xiaomi has revealed all about the newly launched Xiaomi Smart Band 10. The device debuts with a 1.72-inch display, AI-powered fitness tracking, heart rate broadcasting, and deeper integration across Xiaomi’s ecosystem. Pricing for the Xiaomi Smart Band 10 starts at $49.90 in global markets. After weeks of leaks and speculation, Xiaomi has officially pulled back the curtain on the Smart Band 10, the latest addition to its wildly popular fitness tracker lineup. The new wearable fe

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Get paid faster: How Intuit’s new AI agents help businesses get funds up to 5 days faster and save 12 hours a month with autonomous workflows

venturebeat.com Sean Michael Kerner 2025-08-29 09:00:00

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Intuit has been on a journey over the last several years with generative AI, incorporating the technology as part of its services at QuickBooks, Credit Karma,Turbotax and Mailchimp. Today the company is taking the next step with a series of AI agents that go beyond that to transform how small and mid-market businesses operate. These new a

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Intel is closing its automotive chipmaking business

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-08-30 18:19:14

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Intel is shutting down its business dedicated to making processors for cars. In a memo seen by The Oregonian, Intel tells workers that it plans to lay off “most” employees in the division, citing plans to shift focus to its “core client and data center portfolio.” “As part of this work, we have decided to wind down the automotive business within ou

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Adopt or die? How Southeast Asian small businesses are using AI to stay competitive

cnbc.com Bernice Ooi 2025-08-31 08:54:19

ASEAN member nations' flags outside the Pullman Hotel, the venue for the ASEAN Foreign Ministers' retreat meeting in Luang Prabang, Laos, in January 2024. Tang Chhin Sothytang Chhin Sothy | Afp | Getty Images The U.S. and China are usually top of mind when it comes to artificial intelligence and generative AI. But Southeast Asia's small businesses have huge potential that shouldn't be ignored, experts say. In fact, it's a matter of survival, according to Jochen Wirtz, a professor of marketing a

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Was laid off from Microsoft after 23 years, and I'm still going into the office

news.ycombinator.com As Told To 2025-08-29 09:36:55

This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Freddy Kristiansen, a 59-year-old former principal product manager at Microsoft's Denmark office who was laid off in May. Business Insider has verified Kristiansen's employment. The following has been edited for length and clarity. A couple of weeks ago, after 23 years at Microsoft, I was laid off. Yet here I am, back in the office.

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Intel hits the brakes on its automotive business, and layoffs have started

techcrunch.com Kirsten Korosec 2025-09-01 14:26:33

Intel is shuttering its automotive architecture business and laying off most of its staff as part of a broader restructuring at the chipmaker. The news was first reported by The Oregonian/Oregon Live, which cited an internal memo that was shared with employees Tuesday morning. Intel confirmed to TechCrunch that plans to wind down the auto business were communicated internally on Tuesday. “As we have said previously, we are refocusing on our core client and data center portfolio to strengthen o

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Job titles of the future: Pandemic oracle

technologyreview.com Britta Shoot 2025-09-02 13:00:00

Browne produces independent research reports and works directly with companies of all sizes. One of his niches is consulting on new diagnostic tools—for example, in his work with RAIsonance, a startup using machine learning to analyze cough sounds correlated with tuberculosis and covid-19. For multinational corporations, he models threats such as the possibility of avian influenza spreading from human to human. He builds most- and least-likely scenarios for how the global business community migh

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iCloud is down for some users as outage impacts Photos, Mail, more

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-09-03 10:56:04

iCloud is currently down for some Apple users, impacting key apps and services like Photos, Mail, iWork, and more. Here’s what we know so far about the outage. iCloud outage hits several popular Apple services Downdetector.com shows spiking reports of iCloud being down. The outage appears to have started shortly after 1:00 p.m. Eastern time. According to Apple’s system status page, the outage impacts a variety of iCloud services, including: iCloud Mail iCloud Web Apps iCloud Storage Upgrad

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Backyard Coffee and Jazz in Kyoto

news.ycombinator.com Addison Del Mastro 2025-09-06 04:37:05

One of the things I read about while getting ready for our vacation in Japan were these famous tiny businesses: bars or izakayas with four seats, narrow little bookstores or record shops in people’s houses or the bottom floors of small buildings, hyper-specialized or themed bars owned by one passionate guy. (There’s one that’s chock-full of Star Wars memorabilia, for example.) We got to visit a couple of such places, and saw many more from the street. I’m planning to write a longer, more themat

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Backyard Coffee and Jazz in Kyoto, Japan

news.ycombinator.com Addison Del Mastro 2025-09-06 14:37:05

One of the things I read about while getting ready for our vacation in Japan were these famous tiny businesses: bars or izakayas with four seats, narrow little bookstores or record shops in people’s houses or the bottom floors of small buildings, hyper-specialized or themed bars owned by one passionate guy. (There’s one that’s chock-full of Star Wars memorabilia, for example.) We got to visit a couple of such places, and saw many more from the street. I’m planning to write a longer, more themat

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I changed 6 settings on my Samsung TV to give it a significant performance boost

zdnet.com Chris Bayer 2025-09-07 00:09:19

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Say you recently picked up a shiny new TV. You unbox it like a kid at Christmas and prepare to indulge in all its visual glory. You think to yourself, "This is 2025. TV technology is sizzling, and it's going to look amazing no matter what." So you plug it in and don't take one look at the default settings. Big mistake. Also: Your car's USB port is seriously underutilized: 5 features you're not taking advantage of I've been guilty of it. And I'm okay with that because it's wide

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The $50 Billion Company That Does Almost Nothing

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-09-06 21:00:09

Something strange is happening on Wall Street. It isn’t Elon Musk, AI, or a late-night post from Donald Trump. It’s a crypto company called Circle Internet Group, and it’s making the market feel like the glory days of the dot-com bubble are back. Circle went public on June 5. In just eleven trading sessions, its stock exploded by an almost unprecedented 675%, adding over $42 billion to its market cap. The company now trades at a valuation that puts it in the same league as tech unicorns and AI

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Best Mattress Toppers for 2025, Tested by Our Sleep Experts

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-06 20:00:00

If you need more time before making your next big mattress decision or you're waiting on that next big sale event -- a mattress topper is a good temporary sleep solution. The right mattress topper can add comfort and enhance your sleep quality -- and for far less than the $1,000 a year many US adults said they'd spend on better rest, per a CNET’s sleep survey. CNET’s sleep experts have been testing mattresses and their toppers for years. We carefully evaluate firmness, feel, construction and wa

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Augmented Vertex Block Descent (AVBD)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-06 16:04:56

Augmented Vertex Block Descent (AVBD) Vertex Block Descent is a fast physics-based simulation method that is unconditionally stable, highly parallelizable, and capable of converging to the implicit Euler solution. We extend it using an augmented Lagrangian formulation to address some of its fundamental limitations. First, we introduce a mechanism to handle hard constraints with infinite stiffness without introducing numerical instabilities. Second, we substantially improve the convergence in th

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4 ways to turn AI into your business advantage

zdnet.com Mark Samuels 2025-09-07 10:03:27

Javier Zayas Photography/Getty Images CIO Rom Kosla's summary of the importance of emerging technology to Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) likely resonates with any senior executive: "AI is on our mind." Research suggests Kosla is far from alone. More than three-quarters (78%) of business leaders report their organization uses AI in at least one business function, according to a recent McKinsey study. Also: 4 ways your organization can adapt and thrive in the age of AI Kosla told ZDNET that

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After raising $38M, African e-commerce startup Sabi lays off 20%, pivots to traceable exports

techcrunch.com Tage Kene-Okafor 2025-09-08 06:16:01

African B2B e-commerce startup Sabi has laid off around 20% of its workforce (~50 employees) as it pivots from its original retail-focused platform to double down on a growing business in commodity exports. The layoffs, confirmed by the company on Thursday, are part of a broader restructuring aimed at aligning resources with what it describes as rising demand for traceable, ethically sourced commodities, an area it began building out last year under a new vertical called TRACE (Technology Rails

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Our crisis is not loneliness but human beings becoming invisible

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-08 21:27:48

Paul was a gig worker in the San Francisco Bay Area.1 Formerly a project manager in tech until several companies in a row laid him off, he started working entirely for platforms like Lyft, Uber and TaskRabbit. He managed to eke out a living, but the jobs posed a different problem. ‘Honestly, a lot of times, I go out and the person doesn’t even know my name, even though I introduced myself as Paul,’ he told me. ‘Instead, customers just point and say: “OK, yeah, just put it over there,” and then

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Orthopedic Doctors Evaluate if Biological Age TikTok Challenges Are the Real Deal

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-11 01:00:00

If you’ve scrolled through TikTok or Instagram, you’ve probably seen fitness challenges focused on your biological age. In some cases, it’s funny to see people attempting these challenges or impressive to see them succeed. You’ve probably felt inspired to try out some of these challenges and even questioned their legitimacy. “Most of these challenges, like completing 11 consecutive push-ups (for women), doing pull-ups or performing a kneeling-to-squat jump, are quick screens of muscular strengt

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“Don’t mock what you don't own” in 5 minutes (2022)

news.ycombinator.com Hynek Schlawack 2025-09-11 18:04:21

A common issue when writing tests for real-world software is how to deal with third-party dependencies. Let’s examine an old, but counter-intuitive principle. Once upon a time, I made a stupid joke on Twitter about the Don’t Mock What You Don’t Own testing principle: Only mock what you own, because mocking others is rude. — Yours Truly , Tweet While it didn’t get me fired, it led to me being tricked into giving a 5 minute-long talk about it. Given the confused replies I got to the joke Tweet,

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A New Standard for Ethical Hiring: Combining Human Judgement with AI Fairness Tools

computer.org Enrique Quezada 2025-09-14 18:42:43

The ability of AI-powered systems to make decisions based on complicated sets of data has introduced speed and efficiency to hiring, the loan approval process, fraud detection, and more. But has it enhanced accuracy? Many would argue no, especially those impacted by biased hiring algorithms, including employees and employers. One of the most elusive conundrums is how to fight age-based bias by AI-powered hiring systems. For the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Smart Computing

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Experts question whether $499 gold Trump phone can be US-made

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-09-16 06:34:12

Experts question whether $499 gold Trump phone can be US-made 1 hour ago Share Save Natalie Sherman Business reporter, BBC News Reporting from New York Lily Jamali North America technology correspondent Reporting from San Francisco Share Save Trump Mobile Experts have cast doubt on the Trump Organization's claim that its proposed smartphone can be entirely manufactured in the US. One industry analyst told the BBC it would be "virtually impossible" for the gold-coloured handset - which will re

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The best fitness trackers and watches we’ve tested

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From pilot to profit: The real path to scalable, ROI-positive AI

Can AI run a physical shop? Anthropic’s Claude tried and the results were gloriously, hilariously bad

Apple TV+ confirms return date for award-winning animated series ‘Stillwater’

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Intel is closing its automotive chipmaking business

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Was laid off from Microsoft after 23 years, and I'm still going into the office

Intel hits the brakes on its automotive business, and layoffs have started

Job titles of the future: Pandemic oracle

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Backyard Coffee and Jazz in Kyoto

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“Don’t mock what you don't own” in 5 minutes (2022)

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Experts question whether $499 gold Trump phone can be US-made

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