A study found the Oura Ring can detect pregnancy. | Photo by Victoria Song / The Verge In early May, Ben Smarr published a new study showing that the Oura smart ring can detect pregnancy before most people take a test. It was an exciting finding — earlier detection of pregnancy based on wearable devices…
Samsung SmartThings is working on more integrations with Philips Hue smart lighting. | Image; Signify Samsung is planning for deeper integration with Philips Hue lighting in its SmartThings smart home platform. The company tells The Verge that it is working on enhanced music-based experiences that leverage Hue’s smart lighting. This follows a report from SamMobile…
Elon Musk is out to solve a lot of problems — including population collapse. Elon Musk’s pinned tweet is from May. It’s a chart from The Wall Street Journal showing that the US fertility rate has been below the “replacement level” since the 1970s. “USA birth rate has been below min sustainable levels for ~50…
Tesla plans to begin opening its Supercharger network to other electric vehicles by the end of the year, according to a White House memo that shared the automaker’s plans. The U.S. government said in April that it needs to increase its own network of about 1,100 charging stations a hundred-fold to meet coming demand. Tesla’s…
SAVE $23: Prime members can score a third-gen Fire TV Stick with an Alexa Voice Remote on Amazon for only $16.99 (normally $39.99) through July 9. This matches its all-time low Black Friday price for a 58% savings. Upgrading your TV with a streaming hub and a virtual assistant hasn’t been this cheap in a…
Amazon Web Sevices’s (AWS) latest addition to its Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service will now let users rent and run an M1 Mac Mini in the cloud. First rolled out in 2006, EC2 allows users to run virtual machines in AWS’s cloud, and this new instance, dubbed Mac2, looks to help developers create apps…
Apple’s M2 MacBook Air is now up for pre-order, and we’d previously predicted a rush to buy the new laptop – and that has seemingly proved to be the case. Indeed, with pre-orders having only been open for a couple of hours, we’re seeing some of the redesigned MacBook Air models already having their ship…
Whether or not to pay a ransomware demand has long been an ongoing conundrum for organizations worldwide, and the UK government has decisively told solicitors to advise their clients not to pay up. A joint letter from the Information Commissioner Officer (ICO) and the National Cybersecurity Center (NCSC) to the Law Society said ransomware “payment…
Upstart Shares of Upstart Holdings, a lending platform that uses AI technology, sank after cutting second-quarter projections. The company now sees revenue of $228 million, down from earlier estimates of $295 million-$305 million. Net losses were put at $27 million-$31 million, deeper than prior estimates for breakeven to a $4 million loss. Shares of Upstart…
An employee prepares a train loaded with gasoline at the Petrolchemie and Kraftstoffe (PCK) oil refinery in Schwedt/Oder, October 20, 2014. Axel Schmidt/Reuters Constrained Russian gas flows are forcing German-based Uniper to ask for a government bailout. Uniper wants Germany to take a larger “relevant” stake and is calling for more debt funding. The company…