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Fitbit’s revamped app, with Gemini-powered health coach, rolls out to Premium users

Fitbit’s new Gemini-powered health coach, announced back in August, is becoming available as a public preview to Premium subscribers in the U.S. on Android starting tomorrow. It expands to iOS later this year.  As the AI race heats up, Google is counting on the Gemini AI assistant to help Fitbit stand out from the crowd.

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Amazon unveils AI smart glasses for its delivery drivers

Amazon announced on Wednesday that it’s developing AI-powered smart glasses for its delivery drivers. The idea behind the glasses is to give delivery drivers a hand-free experience that reduces the need to keep looking between their phone, the package they’re delivering, and their surroundings. The e-commerce giant says the glasses will allow delivery drivers to

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Sam Altman’s eye-scanning orb promises to prove humanity in the age of AI bots 

Ever wonder if you’re talking to a real person online or just another bot? As bots increasingly outnumber humans online, leading to an explosion of deepfakes and AI-driven fraud, one company has a solution straight out of sci-fi: scanning your iris to verify your identity.  Today on TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Rebecca Bellan spoke with Adrian

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Samsung takes on Apple’s Vision Pro with new Galaxy XR headset

After months of speculation, Samsung has finally unveiled its Galaxy XR headset to take on Apple’s Vision Pro. The headset runs on Google’s Android XR operating system and Qualcomm’s Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2 platform. Galaxy XR costs $1,800, nearly half the price of the Vision Pro. It’s available now in the U.S. and Korea. The

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Oura launches redesigned app and ‘Cumulative Stress’ feature

Oura announced on Monday that it’s launching a new redesigned app experience and a “Cumulative Stress” feature. The company also shared that it’s pursuing FDA clearance for blood pressure features that give users a likelihood assessment of hypertension. The redesigned Oura app introduces more personalization with three main tabs. The “Today” tab surfaces the most

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Microsoft, AWS and Google are trying to drastically reduce China’s role in their supply chains

As geopolitical tensions intensify between the U.S. and China, tech giants Microsoft, Amazon, and Google are ramping up efforts to move production of their products and data centers outside of China, Nikkei reported, citing supply chain sources. In particular, Microsoft wants to have up to 80% of the components needed to make its Surface notebooks

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Apple upgrades iPad Pro, MacBook Pro, and Vision Pro with new M5 chip

Apple on Wednesday announced its new M5 chip along with the new iPad Pro, MacBook Pro, and Vision Pro, all powered by the new chip. These devices are now available for preorder, with shipping and in-store availability expected on October 22. The M5 chip will allow the new devices to run faster than their predecessors.

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Oura is winning young women and losing gym rats, and it’s fine with that

Dorothy Kilroy has seen her company’s smart ring on some very famous fingers. Mark Zuckerberg wears one. So does Jack Dorsey. Prince Harry, too. But when Oura‘s chief commercial officer sat down at Toronto’s Elevate conference with this editor last week, she surprised me, saying the company’s fastest-growing user segment isn’t tech billionaires or wellness-obsessed

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