Google Is Baking AI Into Gmail, Docs, And Other Workspace Apps – Here's What It Can Do

Artificial intelligence could help you write an email or memo in Gmail and Google Docs, as Bard tech is being implemented to help with workflow efficiency.

Binance Stops Deposits and Withdrawals for UK Customers

On Monday, Binance said it would suspend withdrawals and deposits for anybody using UK currency. The news came after the world’s largest crypto exchange’s banking partner in the UK, Paysafe, said it was abandoning crypto, at least as far as Binance was concerned.

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NASA's Latest Request for Cash Includes Big Plans for a Deorbiting ISS 'Space Tug'

NASA is staying focused on the Artemis lunar program, its Moon to Mars objectives, and maintaining a presence in low Earth orbit as part of the agency’s proposed budget for 2024. The space agency also has a new item on its annual wishlist: a space tug to deorbit the International Space Station (ISS) at the end of its…

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Wifi 7 Isn't Out Yet, But You Can Already Buy This $700 Wifi 7 Router

Although it will probably disappoint Netgear fans who’ve grown fond of the very prominent wing antennas on the company’s other routers, Netgear’s new RS700 brings wifi 7 support to a more traditional tower design, even though the wifi 7 standard still hasn’t been completely finalized.

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Merle Dandridge on Filming the Finale of The Last of Us

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Fitbit won't make you pay for your own weekly health data anymore

One of our biggest complaints about Fitbit products for years is the fact that you’ll need to pay the $10 monthly fee to see your historical data. For example, you could only see up to seven days’ worth of your breathing rate, resting heart rate and heart rate variation, and just 90 days of everything else if you didn’t shell out. It was one of the biggest drawbacks of devices like the Pixel Watch, especially when you consider that competing products from Apple and Samsung don’t lock your own data behind a paywall. Today, Google announced that it’s making “more of the insightful data from Fitbit’s Health Metrics Dashboard available without a subscription to all of its users.”

This includes breathing rate, heart rate variability, skin temperature, oxygen saturation and resting heart rate. “Now, even without a Premium subscription, users will now be able to see 30-day and 90-day views of their data to track trends over time,” the company said in a statement. To be clear, more-basic metrics like step count, miles traveled, calories burned and heart rate have always been free, while the information listed above were presented in the Health Metrics dashboard as daily, weekly, monthly or 90-day summaries. 

While there is still a 90-day limit to how far back you can see your historical activity for those metrics, this at least brings Fitbit products closer to the competition. The company does have industry-leading health and sleep-tracking features, including the ability to see how much time you spend in zones like REM, deep and light sleep throughout the night. For now, though, it appears that information like sleep stages is still something you’ll need to pay to see. 

It’s a shame, and a detriment to Fitbit that this is still paywalled, since Apple recently added the same feature to watchOS, while Samsung has offered it for years. And both competitors grant this to users without an extra charge. We’ve reached out to Fitbit to confirm if Sleep Stages remains behind Premium and will update this post when we hear back.

This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/fitbit-wont-make-you-pay-for-your-own-weekly-health-data-anymore-170008009.html?src=rss

Fans React After Charlbi Dean Shockingly Left Out Of Oscars ‘In Memoriam’ Tribute

The 32-year-old South African model and actor, Charlbi Dean, died suddenly after a short illness in August.

Cup Noodles Cat Bed Is a Cat Nap Made in Heaven

Designed to look like a Japanese bowl of instant ramen, the Soup Cat Bed available from Happy & Polly features a luxuriously soft interior, complete with a bottom cushion printed with noodles and egg and a velcro topper for keeping maximum warmth inside. Now I don’t know about you, but I wouldn’t mind a human-sized version for myself.

The exterior is printed with a traditional-looking cup noodle style exterior (not actual Cup Noodles, though because that would involve licensing, and why pay for what you don’t have to?), making it the perfect addition to your Japanese snack-themed living room. I mean, you do already have a Pocky stick coffee table, don’t you?

Am I going to buy one? Well, based on the way my cats are meowing, I’m afraid I don’t have much choice. From the sound of things, it’s either I buy a cup noodles cat bed or get woken up at 5 AM every morning to any part of my body not under the covers getting pawed at. It’s really a small price to pay when you think about it.

Apple Introduces Specialist Over Video, Making It Even Easier To Buy An iPhone From Home

US iPhone customers now have access to “Shop with a Specialist over Video,” a secure video shopping session with Apple experts.

Shin Kamen Rider’s New Trailer Is as Gorgeous as It Is Mysterious

Hideaki Anno’s last few film projects, whether it was for the Neon Genesis Evangelion Rebuild movies or his collaborations with Shinji Higuchi on Shin Godzilla and Shin Ultraman, have had marketing campaigns defined by mystery. Shin Kamen Rider looks no different, as we’ve got no idea as to what to expect—other than…

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