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Withings’ latest hybrid smartwatch poses as a luxury dive watch

The Verge

You buy a Withings because you hate the look of typical health-focused wearables and abhor the bombardment of notifications that plague other smartwatches. But it should be fine for swimming, surfing, snorkeling, and other water activities above 100 meters (330 feet). The Withings ScanWatch Horizon from the side.

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Fitbit is rolling out an ECG app to the Charge 5

The Verge

Fitbit released its Charge 5 fitness tracker with a brand new design and a color screen in September , but it launched without two key software features: an electrocardiogram (ECG) app and Fitbit’s new Daily Readiness Score, which recommends how hard you should work out. Image: Fitbit. per-month (or $79.99-per-year)

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Review: Amazon’s Halo View health tracker is a good second release, with some awkward quirks

GeekWire

The company’s new Halo View health band nixes the mic and adds a screen , delivering an overall experience more akin to a traditional health band. Overall it’s a good health band, based on my initial experience over the past week. Halo View comes with a 12-month free Halo membership, which normally costs $3.99/month.

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The Fitbit Charge 5 and its features are shown off in leaked video

The Verge

The main new feature appears to be the Daily Readiness Score, which is only available to those with a $10 a month or $80 a year Fitbit Premium subscription. The video shows that the score will be calculated based on your exercise history, sleep, and heart rate, and that Fitbit will recommend what kind of exercise you should do for the day.

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Amazon Halo View review: the Fitbit clone no one asked for

The Verge

With the View, a color OLED touchscreen was added so you can check your stats at a glance, and microphones were removed. While the microphone’s been nixed, you get the typical accelerometer and optical heart rate monitor, on top of a blood oxygen (SpO2) sensor. With this tracker, what you see is what you get.

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6 signs you might need an executive coach — and 2 signs you don’t

CIO Business Intelligence

You must also understand how the business runs, how to speak to business executives, how to manage people, and how to build relationships and handle office politics. Your communications with the business team could use fine-tuning A big part of taking on a new role is communicating with colleagues on the business side of the company.

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Your brain may not be private much longer

Vox

It’s all about offering you ways to hack your brain , getting it to do more of what you want and less of what you don’t want. Yet Farahany is no Luddite: She believes we should be free to embrace neurotechnology if we choose — but only if we also update our laws so we can reap its benefits without courting its risks.

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