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eff 30m ago

Most Smart Watches, Rings, and Bands Lack Basic Transparency Reports and Key Privacy Features

Oura Rings, Garmin GPS fitness watches, Apple Watches, Whoop bands—every year, more and more tech devices are promising to monitor our health and fitness, guide us toward healthier living, and provide useful health metrics to take to our doctors. But few of these tools provide the sorts of privacy and security promises we demand from all technology, let alone tech that captures personal health data.
comingsoon 33m ago

Backrooms 4K UHD & Blu-ray Release Comes With Nearly 3 Hours of New Footage

The Backrooms movie will soon be released in 4K UHD and Blu-Ray. Although there is no official release date, pre-bookings are available on the official A24 site. Moreover, the release will come with nearly three hours of never-before-seen footage. What is the update on Backrooms’ 4K UHD and Blu-ray release?
axios 36m ago

Blanche sidesteps questions on federal agents at election sites

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche declined Wednesday to explicitly rule out deploying federal agents to polling places, saying only that he would "follow the law."Why it matters: Lawsuits challenging the Trump administration's use of federal agents near polling places are setting up a legal fight over whether those deployments violate federal protections against voter intimidation. What they're saying: When Sen.
techcrunch 39m ago

Daniel Ek’s body-scanning startup Neko Health raises another $700M

Neko Health has developed proprietary body-scanning technology, which it couples with bloodwork, to assess a person's health.
windowscentral 41m ago

Dispatch’s long‑awaited Xbox Series X|S debut is finally confirmed, and it arrives in less than two weeks with full Xbox Play Anywhere support

After months of waiting, AdHoc Studio has at last revealed the long-awaited release date for the Xbox version of its hit superhero game, Dispatch, and it will be arriving sooner than expected.
electrek 45m ago

Lamborghini says EV tech ‘not mature enough,’ pushes first EV past 2030

Lamborghini has doubled down on backing away from electric vehicles. A second executive now confirms the Lanzador will launch as a plug-in hybrid rather than an EV, and that the brand’s first fully electric car won’t arrive until after 2030.
9to5google 49m ago

Gemini Spark gets Workspace upgrades as Google teases AI Pro access soon

Following the last update two weeks ago, Google is rolling out a series of new features for Gemini Spark.
omgubuntu 49m ago

Firefox is getting updates twice as fast from September

Mozilla is changing Firefox’s release schedule from September, with new stable versions planned every two weeks instead of once a month. The company says the new release cadence is designed to make releases more predictable and allow improvements to reach users more often. But in a message to developers, Mozilla described the changes as an experiment and said it will review the impact before deciding whether to continue.
lesswrong 51m ago

Occam’s razor is about using the past to predict the future

Occam’s razor is both intuitive and counter-intuitive. It seems obvious that a simpler explanation is probably better; but it’s not clear why simplicity is raised to such a level of philosophical importance.
qz 52m ago

20 skills worth learning that almost nobody realizes are within reach

Skills that look hard and aren't — and the specific reason the difficulty is mostly myth
fastcompany 56m ago

You could win $2 million playing Monopoly—but not the way you think

For generations, Monopoly has let players dream of becoming real estate tycoons. Now, Netflix is turning that fantasy into a $2 million reality competition.
bgr 1h ago

Big Changes Are Coming To Android's Google Play Store This Month

Major Google Play Store changes are scheduled to begin in the U.S. this month. The new system will affect users, developers, and competing marketplaces alike.
9to5mac 1h ago

Apple faces new questions from Brazil over betting apps accessible to minors

Nearly three months after Brazilian officials first questioned Apple over betting apps accessible to minors, the company has now been given five business days to provide additional details about its App Store safeguards. Here are the details.
polygon 1h ago

Netflix's Frankenstein gets physical deluxe edition from Criterion

Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein movie will be released on disc just in time for Halloween and will be packed with special features.
gizmodo 1h ago

China’s War on ‘Lying Flat’ Comes for Companion Chatbots

Authorities have seen what this behavior does to a person, and they don't like it.
spacenews 1h ago

Space Force awards Slingshot $69 million for AI-enabled training technology

The 4½-year award will fund simulated satellite-defense scenarios
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