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Struggling to sleep? The moon may be to blame

New research ties the phase of the moon to our circadian rhythms, even among people who live in urban settings.

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Explainer: 5 ways Congress could punish Trump after Capitol riot

As the days pass since the U.S. Capitol riot, the severity of events in Washington, D.C. on January 6 only seem to increase. New footage of police officers being beaten and evidence suggesting an org

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This 'smart mask' can measure the wearer's vital signs

Professor Chen Xiaodong and Professor Loh Xian Jun display the smart mask and the data readings transmitted to the phone. /NTU With the COVID-19 pandemic, masks have become an essential part o

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This smartphone-powered suit can track body temperature, posture

02:41 Researchers in Singapore have created a "smart suit" that can track various health parameters across the body in real time.The team at the National University of Singapore believ

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GoodRx, Walgreens, CVS shares all down on Amazon’s Pharmacy news

Consumer healthcare stocks are plummeting this morning on news that Amazon has finally launched its integrated pharmacy service.Amazon launches Amazon Pharmacy, a delivery service for prescription med

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Levels raises $12M from a16z and others to bring its biowearable to market

Levels today is announcing a large seed round to help bring its biowearable metabolic sensor to market. The innovative platform pairs continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) with an impressive software su

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Spotify adds standalone streaming support to its Apple Watch app

Spotify confirmed today it has begun to roll out support for standalone streaming on its Apple Watch app. The feature had been spotted in testing back in September, and arrives roughly two years after

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Apple Watch Series 6 review

When it comes to smartwatches, it’s Apple against the world. It’s not that there aren’t plenty of other products to choose from — it’s more that the company has just utterly dominated the space to suc

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You can now return Apple’s Solo Loop for a new size, without sending back the Watch

Call it Apple Bandgate, if you must. It’s the latest online dustup, following Apple’s recent Watch Series 6 release. The announcement of the Solo Loop was more or less glossed over during last week’s

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Fitbit Sense review

The Versa helped Fitbit reverse its fortunes after a long, gradual slide. The company was slow to embrace the smartwatch, and stumbled somewhat out of the gate with the Ionic. But the Versa found a pe

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Gillmor Gang: Watch Party

This Gillmor Gang episode is as much about what we didn’t talk about as what we did. In the run up to the recording session, we somehow suspected we’d talk about Apple’s virtual event on Tuesday. Then

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What to expect from Apple’s hardware event

If this was a normal year, we would be settling in for an iPhone event right about now. This is, however, very much not a normal year. And while we are, in fact, getting an Apple hardware event tomor

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FCC dings company for $164K after its false broadband claims distorted national report

The FCC was deeply embarrassed last year when it was found that its rosy broadband deployment report was off by millions, owing to a single, extremely suspect filing that conjured 62 million customer

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Christopher Ward’s C1 Moonglow moonphase automatic watch is perfect for space lovers

The moonphase watch is a long-standing marvel of the analog watch industry – featuring a complication that allows it to accurately track the phases of the Moon across a long period (provided the watch

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Fitbit intros the Versa 3 and Inspire 2

Fitbit’s big news for today was the launch of the Sense, a new, more premium smartwatch line designed to compete directly against the likes of Apple and Samsung. But Fitbit has never been one for sol

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Portland cops tear gas protesters attacking police station

Police in Portland used tear gas early Monday to scatter demonstrators who marched on a precinct station in another night of violence — hurling rocks, bottles, commerci

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Wearable tech study confirms benefits of vigorous exercise bursts

Slow steady might win the race - but going harder faster could have benefits in the long run.The largest ever study to use wearable devices has found that more intense bursts of physical activity are