If you’ve got a Fitbit Sense or Versa 3, you have a few new features to explore on your smartwatch. With the update to Fitbit OS 5.1, you’ll now have the option to use Google Assistant as your Fitbit’s voice assistant instead of Amazon’s Alexa, which has been available on the watches since launch. The update will …
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Some Mercedes cars have the What3words technology built in, letting you speak or type three words to pinpoint a 10×10 foot location in its navigation system, but a lot more cars soon could get similar technology. The London company announced a deal that will let navigation system maker Here incorporate the technology. Here navigation technology is used in car brands …
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AT&T’s WarnerMedia Ride has made a few appearances in recent weeks but now the service is officially available on iOS and Android. The new service allows for watching TV shows, documentaries and short clips from AT&T properties while connected to a car’s AT&T-provided in-vehicle Wi-Fi. Shows available to stream include full episodes of Rick and Morty, Looney Tunes cartoons and …
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It was a day like any other for Shannon Powell. In early February, he was driving for Uber in Baltimore as he had been for the last three and a half years. As he worked through the afternoon, picking up and dropping off passengers, he sipped on a Coca-Cola and made small talk. Then, at around 5 p.m., Uber pinged …
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This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. It’s tough to get noticed at CES. So Nissan set up a mini golf course with a feature the Japanese car giant thought would be social media catnip: a guaranteed hole-in-one. Standing at the carmaker’s exhibit, I putted a golf ball …
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Just days after Google announced it was buying Fitbit in a deal worth $2.1 billion, it will add even more features to its range of smartwatches. Tweaks to sleep and exercise tracking are all part of Fitbit OS 4.1, and although it won’t arrive for a few weeks, the improvements look like they’re worth waiting for. All of Fitbit’s current …
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Batteries are our lifeblood. Lithium-ion power cells, first commercialized by Sony in 1991, enable nearly every 21st century convenience: Phones, laptops, wireless headphones, cordless power tools — even electric vehicles. But like the other great conveniences of our modern age — automobiles and air travel — on the rare occasions lithium batteries go wrong, they can go catastrophically wrong. Just …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. So you’re out on a first date and you get into the car…. Nissan/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET Please let me tell you what I’m really thinking. Wait, you don’t really want to know all of it, do you? The human mind can often be …
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