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Update, Oct. 13: The next Apple event is today, and the iPhone 12 is expected to be unveiled. Here’s how to watch the livestream. Apple CEO Tim Cook started Tuesday’s event by telling us the Apple Watch and new additions to the iPad family would be the highlights — and then we got the Apple Watch Series 6, the Apple …

Apple’s popular smartwatch is getting an update, called the Apple Watch Series 6, with a key new health sensor, as well as features focused on making the gadget easier to use with kids. The new sensor for the Apple Watch can measure your blood oxygen level in 15 seconds, Apple said, and will also track your blood oxygen in the background. …

Update, 11:44 a.m. PT: Apple on Tuesday announced the Apple Watch Series 6 and a more affordable Apple Watch SE at its September virtual event. The new Apple Watch features a Solo Loop band and an oximeter for blood oxygen tracking. Apple also unveiled a subscription service called Apple Fitness Plus and a feature called Family Setup that allows kids to …

Less than a month after announcing its Galaxy Watch 3, Samsung added yet another wearable to its portfolio with the Galaxy Fit 2. The second-gen tracker is a slimmer alternative to the company’s smartwatches and it has fitness at its core.  Samsung announced the tracker during its Life Unstoppable virtual event, which it held this year for the first time in …

The Apple Watch may be able to predict how healthy or unhealthy you are and keep you in check as you age. WatchOS 7, the next version of Apple’s wearable software due to arrive this fall, will bring a new set of mobility metrics to the Watch. (You can try the public beta of WatchOS 7 now, too, but we …

If you’re an avid Fitbit user, you’ve probably come across Fitbit Premium, a personalized subscription service in the Fitbit app on iPhone and Android. For a monthly price, Fitbit Premium gives you access to guided workouts, meditations, advanced health insights and sleep tracking, along with other tools to help you reach your fitness goals. If you’re thinking about buying one of …

Wearable tech has been high on the agenda at this year’s IFA trade show, which is being held virtually as well as in real life for the first time this week in Berlin. On Friday, Chinese tech company Honor, a sister brand to the better-known Huawei, unveiled two new smartwatches — the GS Pro and the ES — to add …

Samsung’s new Galaxy Watch 3 is going head-to-head against the Apple Watch with new fitness tools, an FDA-cleared ECG app and a fall-detection feature that works a lot like Apple’s. But the execution of these features is different on each device and there’s a lot to consider when deciding between the two. If you want a deeper dive, we tested …

There are three new Fitbits on the horizon that promise to be your 24/7 health companions, from monitoring your activity during the day to tracking your sleep at night. The new Fitbit Sense smartwatch adds stress and heart-health monitoring to the mix, along with temperature and blood oxygen tracking during sleep. The company also launched a new Versa 3 which …

Every year, Apple has public betas of its upcoming iPhone, iPad and Mac operating systems to test and try, if you’re curious. This year, the Apple Watch is getting a public beta of its own. The Watch OS 7 public beta is now available to download, but you’ll need iOS 14 public beta on an iPhone first to try it. …