FDA Warns Consumers Not to Use Smart Watches or Rings That Claim to Measure Blood Glucose Levels

Wednesday February 21, 2024 12:44 pm PST by Juli Clover The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) does not want consumers to purchase or use smart watches or smart rings that claim to measure blood glucose levels using non-invasive methods. In a safety warning shared today, the FDA says that smart devices that claim […]

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Moto G Stylus (2024) leaks in all-angle renders with some specs thrown in for good measure

According to a new leak from the usually reliable @OnLeaks, Motorola isn’t giving up on the mid-range smartphone with a stylus. Last year, the company launched the Moto G Stylus (2023) in May, and today the upcoming Moto G Stylus (2024) has been leaked in CAD-based renders along with a few of its specs. Let’s […]

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How to Measure the Impact From a Collision

Not only do I get the “shape” of the acceleration curve for the colliding cart, but I also get a maximum acceleration of –6.67 meters per second squared. With that acceleration and the mass of the cart (0.566 kilogram), we get a maximum impact force of 3.73 newtons. This isn’t quite the same value I […]

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How to Measure the Calories in a Candy Bar—With Physics!

This Halloween, when you grab a candy bar, pay attention to the wrapper. In the United States, a “nutrition facts” label has been required for all packaged foods since 1994, giving the serving size and the amount of sugar, protein, fat, and sodium the food contains. But the most interesting bit is the metric for […]

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Google’s New Anti-Stalking Measure Will Alert Android Users About Unknown AirTags

Back in May, Google announced plans to introduce a new safety feature that would alert Android users about nearby unknown Bluetooth trackers, including AirTags, preventing people from being stalked with tracking accessories. The tracking alert functionality is rolling out starting today. Android smartphones will provide automatic alerts if an unknown Bluetooth tracker is separated from […]

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Galaxy Watch 6 can measure temperature of surroundings and objects

Earlier today, Samsung announced that three new apps are coming to its Wear OS-based smartwatches. One of those apps, Thermo Check, is coming to the Galaxy Watch 6 and the Galaxy Watch 6 Classic first and then to the Galaxy Watch 5 series. It also revealed new features the app will bring to the table. […]

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What Lit the Lamps That Let Humanity Measure the Universe

Every year, around 1,000 Type Ia supernovas erupt in the sky. These stellar explosions brighten and then fade away in a pattern so repeatable that they’re used as “standard candles”—objects so uniformly bright that astronomers can deduce the distance to one of them by its appearance. Our understanding of the cosmos is based on these […]

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Disney and Yahoo are also cutting jobs as a cost-saving measure

The tech world is getting hit with a decline in sales and income, and companies left, and right are cutting jobs as a cost-saving measure. Twitter, Facebook’s parent company Meta, Amazon, Google, and Microsoft all announced layoff measures, and now Disney and Yahoo also issued a similar announcement. Disney’s CEO Robert Iger revealed 7,000 people […]

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Google is testing way to measure distance between devices via Bluetooth

We use Bluetooth accessories in some or the other way, be it the wireless mouse that we use or the earphones that we use to listen to songs on our smartphones. While it may seem that there aren’t many limitations to Bluetooth, in reality, there are a few areas where the technology has some restrictions. […]

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How to Measure Ripples in Spacetime

When a gravitational wave passes through Earth, it causes space itself to stretch in one direction and compress in the other, so the two “arms” of the detector actually grow and shrink by tiny amounts. This means each beam of light travels a slightly different distance, which shows up in the recombined laser light pattern […]

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Party Trick: Newer iPhones Allow You to Measure Someone’s Height Instantly

iPhone 12 Pro and Pro Max, iPhone 13 Pro and Pro Max, and iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max models feature a LiDAR Scanner next to the rear camera that can be used to measure a person’s height instantly in Apple’s preinstalled Measure app. To measure a person’s height, simply open the Measure app, point […]

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Twitter boss Elon Musk to fire half of employees as a cost-cutting measure

New Twitter owner Elon Musk plans to fire 50% of Twitter’s workforce or about 3,700 people, Bloomberg claims. The key reason for the lay-offs is a cost-cutting and the employees are yet to be informed. On top of that, the remaining people will be asked to work from the office full-time, which is a reversal […]

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Mark Gurman: iPhones are moving to USB-C measure next year, but it’s “just a stopgap”

Apple will make the jump to USB-C with next year’s iPhone 15 series – Bloomberg analyst Mark Gurman is certain of it, writing “the iPhone 15 is essentially a lock to get USB-C in the fall of 2023, beating the mandate by a year.” The iPhone 14 series should be the last in the family […]

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Garmin Reacts to Apple Watch Ultra: ‘We Measure Battery Life in Months. Not Hours.’

Friday September 9, 2022 9:20 am PDT by Sami Fathi Garmin has reacted to Apple’s new rugged Apple Watch Ultra, saying in a tweet following the iPhone 14 and Apple Watch event that it measures battery life in “months” and “not hours,” promoting its latest Enduro 2 watch for athletes. The tweet attempts to highlight […]

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The Xiaomi Mix Fold 2 will measure only 5.4mm thick when unfolded, Watch S1 Pro also coming tomorrow

CEO Lei Jun was unhappy with the bulk of foldable phones, so a team at Xiaomi spent nearly two years working on the problem. The fruit of their labors will be revealed tomorrow – the Xiaomi Mix Fold 2. The CEO revealed that the new model will measure only 5.4mm thick when unfolded. The folded […]

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How Ants Inspired a New Way to Measure Snow With Space Lasers

Ants, as a group, are creatures of habit. While an individual’s path isn’t certain, biologists who have spent a lot of time watching the behavior of entire colonies can predict the average time any one ant might wander around underground before resurfacing. That got NASA physicist Yongxiang Hu wondering if the same predictability might be […]

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Aura Strap 2 Apple Watch strap lets you measure body fat and muscle

Startup Aura Devices is back with another version of its smart Apple Watch strap that’s designed to deliver the sort of stats on your smartwatch you’d usually get from stepping on a set of smart scales. Like the first Aura strap, it uses bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) to deliver fat, muscle and water balance data. […]

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