How Whoop's Health Monitor guided me through a nasty bug

One of my favorite Whoop features is Health Monitor, and once again, it’s just come to my rescue. Health Monitor is a daily overview of your general well-being via five core metrics: resting heart rate, breathing rate, skin temperature, heart rate variability (HRV), and blood oxygen. If you get ill (or experience the effects of […]

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Fitbit va utiliser le LLM “Personal Health” de Google

Les appareils connectés enregistrent des données biométriques importantes qui peuvent vous renseigner sur votre santé, vos habitudes et bien plus encore. Toutefois, l’interprétation de ces données prend du temps. C’est pourquoi Google Research et Fitbit se sont associés pour utiliser l’intelligence artificielle (IA) afin de faciliter le processus d’analyse. Mardi, lors de The Check Up, […]

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Climate Change Is Bad for Your Health, Wherever You Are

Extreme heat kills roughly half a million people worldwide each year, but at the current rate of global warming, it could be close to five times as deadly by 2050. Then there are the indirect health risks of climate change: chaotic weather and higher temperatures generate deadly natural disasters, bring diseases into new areas, and […]

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Stop Misunderstanding the Gender Health Gap

Well, if weight here is being used as a proxy for sex or gender, a larger woman would need the higher dose; a smaller man a lower dose. So why would you just not use weight as the measure for what dose a person should get? That would be a much more effective way of […]

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Check out this month’s Samsung Health and PENUP challenges

Samsung kicked off the month of March with new challenges for Samsung Health and PENUP users. As usual, the new Samsung Health challenge is a month-long, and PENUP artists can participate in a two-week contest before the theme changes in mid-March. Here are the current live challenges. For Samsung Health, the March theme is “Jungle.” […]

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I hope Samsung brings Health app to Galaxy Book laptops next

Samsung’s Galaxy Book laptops and Galaxy mobile devices are getting better integrated every year. Features like Second Screen work great across One UI for tablets and Windows OS on Galaxy Books. And recently, the Galaxy Buds 2 Pro earbuds received a firmware update that enabled Auto Switch for the new Galaxy Book 4 series. Meanwhile, […]

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I hope Samsung brings Health app to Galaxy Book laptops next

Samsung’s Galaxy Book laptops and Galaxy mobile devices are getting better integrated every year. Features like Second Screen work great across One UI for tablets and Windows OS on Galaxy Books. And recently, the Galaxy Buds 2 Pro earbuds received a firmware update that enabled Auto Switch for the new Galaxy Book 4 series. Meanwhile, […]

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I hope Samsung brings Health app to Galaxy Book laptops next

Samsung’s Galaxy Book laptops and Galaxy mobile devices are getting better integrated every year. Features like Second Screen work great across One UI for tablets and Windows OS on Galaxy Books. And recently, the Galaxy Buds 2 Pro earbuds received a firmware update that enabled Auto Switch for the new Galaxy Book 4 series. Meanwhile, […]

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Huawei's health push: Sleep, mental wellbeing and blood pressure innovation

Huawei is no stranger to innovation in the wearables space, and 2024 is already shaping up to be a huge year for the company’s ambitions in Europe.  Leveraging its extensive R&D resources, user insights, and cutting-edge technologies, the company is aiming to deliver the next generation of wearables with three key focuses – sleep, mental […]

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Samsung’s new health feature is coming to its latest flagship phones and watches

Earlier today, Samsung unveiled the Galaxy Ring, its first smart ring to track your health and wellness. It is coming later this year in several colors and sizes. One of the new features that Samsung is introducing with the Galaxy Ring is Vitality Score, and it will also be released to the company’s newest high-end […]

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Galaxy Fit 3 health sensor comes from a company making fingerprint sensors for Samsung

Samsung quietly made the Galaxy Fit 3 official this week. The Fit 3 follows the Galaxy Fit 2, which launched back in September of 2020. Samsung has made notable changes, including fitting it with a display that is 45% bigger. The Galaxy Fit 3 comes with a heart-rate sensor at the back that handles a […]

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Samsung partners with FlexIt to bring health and wellness training to its TVs

Last month, Samsung unveiled its new lineup of smart TVs that includes QLED TVs, Neo QLED TVs, OLED TVs, and Micro LED TVs. All these new TVs run a new version of Tizen (7.0) that brings new content, connectivity options, and features. They also feature Samsung Daily+, which is a central hub where users can […]

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iOS 17.4 Lets You See Your iPhone 15 Battery Health at a Glance

With iOS 17.4, Apple is tweaking how battery health is reported to iPhone 15 users, making it easier for them to understand their battery status at a glance. In the Battery section of the Settings app, the Battery Health listing now has a readout such as “Normal” that is accessible without tapping in to the […]

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England’s NHS App Gains Digital Prescription Services

NHS App users in England can now collect medication from a pharmacy without having to visit a GP or health center, according to NHS Digital. From today, patients in England can use the NHS App to view all their prescription details, order repeat prescriptions, and generate a barcode for medication collection. The barcode replaces the […]

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10 wearables (and health devices) you might have missed at CES 2024

CES 2024 has now come to a close, and we need a well-earned rest after a week of chasing down wearables across downtown Las Vegas. Highlights were the Movano Evie, new Garmin Lily 2, and some promising consumer smart glasses. But the halls of the Expo were full of interesting wearables, far too many to […]

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Withings Body Scan Review: High-End Health Monitoring at a High-End Price

When the holiday festivities are done with and January rolls around, people naturally look to improving their health and usually turn to smart devices to get their lifestyle back on track. Weight loss is typically part of that calculation, and while smart scales can help, there’s little to distinguish between the majority of offerings on […]

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How to find out the SSD health on Windows 11

On Windows 11, you can check the health state of the system (or any other) Solid-State Drive (SSD) installed on your computer, and in this guide, I’ll show you how. In the past, you needed to source a third-party tool to check the health of the drives connected to your device, but now, you can […]

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CES 2024: Invoxia Launches AI Wearable That Monitors Your Pet’s Health

Invoxia at CES unveiled the Minitailz Smart Pet Tracker, an AI wearable that’s designed for dogs and cats. The Minitailz is an all-in-one GPS tracker and wellness device for pets, and it is able to measure respiratory rate and heart vitals, alerting owners about possible health issues. Invoxia says that the Minitailz is able to […]

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CES 2024: Withings Launches ‘BeamO’ Home Health Scanner

Withings, known primarily for its lineup of iPhone-connected smart scales, today debuted the BeamO, a 4-in-1 home health checkup device. The BeamO “multiscope” combines ECG, pulse oximeter, stethoscope, and thermometer sensors into a single device. According to Withings, the BeamO is the “thermometer of the future,” able to not only measure temperature, but also provide […]

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Samsung’s January 2024 challenges for Health and PENUP users

Samsung has a couple of One UI apps that bring the community together through monthly challenges. The ubiquitous Health platform invites fitness enthusiasts to partake in walking challenges throughout the month, and the more artistically inclined PENUP app brings digital artists together to draw and explore two new themes every month. Here are the Health […]

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