On Friday, Apple released the new Beddit 3.5 Sleep Monitor. It’s the first sleep tracker Apple has launched with Beddit since it acquired the company in 2017. The Beddit Sleep Monitor was registered on the FCC website earlier in the week, and now you can buy it from Apple’s website for $150/£149/AU$229. Like the previous …
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Premium budget. I’m not sure how I feel about that term, but it feels appropriate here. When I heard Amazfit was making a new watch called the Verge, I was definitely curious. Amazfit, a brand of the Chinese wearables company Huami, already has several fitness trackers and watches that are popular on Amazon. One is the Amazfit Bip, which looks …
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If you’re looking to buy an Apple Watch Series 4, the biggest changes include a new FDA approved ECG feature and fall detection, but hopefully you won’t have to use those two features on a daily basis. What you may use regularly are its fitness features. The Apple Watch Series 4 has added better training tools for athletes, automatic workout detection and …
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The White House held a roundtable “listening session” on innovation with top tech executives on Thursday, part of the Trump Administration efforts to ensure US leadership in emerging fields, such as artificial intelligence, 5G wireless and quantum computing. Executives who participated include Microsoft’s Satya Nadella, Google’s Sundar Pichai, Oracle’s Safra Catz, Qualcomm’s Steve Mollenkopf, IBM’s Ginni Rometty and others, according …
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Every now and then, a gadget can connect with you on a level that goes beyond specs and features. The Joy-Cons on the Nintendo Switch, for example, snap when I dock it, and I derive an immense amount of joy from this every time I do it. Razer’s wireless charger base accessory for its Razer Phone 2 gives similar satisfaction. …
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It seems like a perfect marriage. OnePlus has announced it’ll launch its 5G phone in the first half of 2019. Verizon can’t stop talking about 5G. But fresh evidence that OnePlus’ 5G phone won’t land on Verizon’s network came to light this week at Qualcomm’s annual tech summit held in Maui, HI. OnePlus has already cozied up to Verizon with the OnePlus …
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The best way to sell always-connected PCs is downplaying the actual connectivity part. At least, that’s what Lenovo has found through the past year of selling computers powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon LTE processors, said Matt Bereda, vice president of global consumer marketing for PCs and tablets at Lenovo. Even though all of the devices are capable of running on 4G …
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Meet Bajau Laut, one of the last sea gypsy tribes in the world. Living in the great ocean in water villages, beneath the beautiful blue skies of Sabah, Malaysia may sound idyllic, but these come at a cost. The Bajau Laut villagers are essentially stateless, and have to worry about depleting fish stocks caused by illegal fish bombing. Discovery’s latest …
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Mozilla is building a version of its Firefox web browser for Windows 10 personal computers using Qualcomm’s Snapdragon processors, a move that boosts the chipmaker’s efforts to challenge Intel’s dominance. Most PCs these days use Intel’s x86 family of processors, though a small fraction come with AMD chips that can run the same software. But Qualcomm, smelling blood in the …
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If you want a 5G phone next year, you’re going to pay much more for it. How much more? In the case of OnePlus, it could be $200 to $300 higher than this year’s flagship OnePlus 6T, CEO Pete Lau said in an interview with CNET. That’s a whopping 36 percent to 55 percent increase. The Chinese handset maker has …
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