💥 Read this awesome post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Apps,Social,booktok,reading,tome 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Tome, a book tracking app and book lover community, is closing its doors. Built on the back of BookTok's large, influential community — creators who discuss and review books on TikTok — the app offers readers a place to chronicle and rate their books, get recommendations, and even add images of things like favorite quotes or memes, or share playlists that match a book's sentiment. The app is now one of many catering to a growing demographic of Gen Z readers who create book-related content…
🔥 Explore this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Gadgets,Hardware,fitbit,Google,wearables 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Google on Thursday unveiled the new Fitbit Air, a wearable device without a screen that retails for $100. The device includes health and fitness tracking features such as 24/7 heart rate monitoring, heart rhythm monitoring with atrial fibrillation alerts, blood oxygen level, resting heart rate, heart rate variability, sleep stages and duration, and more. The tech giant said in a blog post that the device is aimed at people who find wearable devices too bulky, complex or expensive, noting that the Fitbit Air is "simple,…
💥 Check out this awesome post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Security,Anthropic,cybersecurity,Firefox,Mozilla,Mythos 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: When Anthropic unveiled the new Mythos model in April, it also issued a stern warning to anyone developing software. The model was so effective at discovering software vulnerabilities, the lab claimed, that it discovered thousands of high-risk bugs that needed to be fixed before they could be made public. Now, security researchers at Mozilla's Firefox browser offer a closer look at what this process looks like in practice, and what Mythos powers mean for software security more generally. In a post published on Thursday,…
🚀 Check out this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Apps,Hardware,ai health coach,fitbit,google health,google health coach,wearables 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Besides taking the wraps off its new Fitbit Air, a Whoop-esque fitness band, Google also said Thursday that it is rebranding its Fitbit app as Google Health and launching an artificial intelligence-powered health coach as a subscription service. The Health app will become a key part of Google's fitness strategy, building on its 2021 acquisition of Fitbit, which saw the tech giant delve into fitness wearables to complement its general-purpose Android smartwatches. Leveraging Google's Gemini AI, the new Google…
✨ Discover this insightful post from WIRED 📖 📂 **Category**: Gear,Gear / Reviews,Gear / Products / Sleep,Product Review 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Photo: Julia ForbesLike any Sleep Number smart bed, the ComfortNext Lux offers 100 firmness levels, and the level you select is your “Sleep Number,” or the firmness you prefer to sleep at. I usually lean toward lumbar support and firmer weight distribution, which was previously in the 40 to 50 range. Then, a new recommendation appeared in the app — my firmness level was in the mid-70s, but switching to softer can improve my sleep score, which Sleep…
🔥 Check out this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Apps,Media & Entertainment,ai dj,music streaming services,Spotify 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Spotify said Thursday that its interactive AI DJ feature now supports four additional languages: French, German, Italian, and Brazilian Portuguese. Until now, the feature, which you can interact with to request songs and get AI-powered spoken commentary, has only been available in English and Spanish. The company said the AI DJs have different names and personalities to suit their own languages: Maya, Ben, Alex, and Danny. Along with expanding support for new languages, the company is offering this feature…
🔥 Discover this awesome post from WIRED 📖 📂 **Category**: Gear,Gear / Products / Outdoor,Don't Bug Me 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: No one likes the feeling of insect repellent. I have vivid memories of being sprayed down with the stuff as a kid before venturing into the woods in northern Minnesota on family vacations and feeling like chemical warfare was being waged on all of my senses. I was willing to endure it because being covered in mosquito bites is even worse. Wearing repellent can save your life, protecting you against West Nile virus and Lyme disease, just to name…
💥 Discover this insightful post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Transportation,aurora,Aurora Innovation,autonomous vehicles,self-driving trucks 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Aurora Innovation will begin hauling loads in self-driving trucks for distribution giant McLane, the latest company to adopt the startup's self-driving vehicle technology after a multi-year pilot program. Under the commercial agreement announced Wednesday, trucks equipped with Aurora's autonomous driving system will be used to transport freight between Dallas and Houston. These trucks will operate autonomously and will not have a human safety driver on board who can take over the task. However, Aurora will still have what it describes as a…
🚀 Check out this insightful post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Hardware,Apple,Apple Intelligence,lawsuit,siri ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Apple has agreed to pay $250 million to settle a class-action lawsuit over how it marketed its AI features ahead of the launch of the iPhone 16. The Financial Times was first to report the news. The lawsuit alleged that Apple exaggerated the breadth of features Apple Intelligence would bring, which included a significantly upgraded version of its assistant Siri. The complaint alleges that the company created the impression that advanced AI capabilities would be available to users sooner than they actually were.…
🚀 Explore this awesome post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Apps,dating apps,Match Group 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: You might think that the big story of Match Group's first-quarter earnings was Tinder's turnaround. Dating app revenue is up slightly again after quarter after quarter of declines. But we'd like to point out a comment the CFO made about how the company is slow to hire right now because it needs more money to pay for AI tools for its employees. Ah, yes, a good “let's blame the AI” strategy! Speaking to analysts on a first-quarter earnings call, Match Group CFO Stephen…