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ŌURA has announced a major update to its smart ring platform, introducing new features focused on hormonal health. The company is rolling out Hormonal Birth Control support and Menopause Insights globally starting May 6, marking a significant expansion of its women’s health capabilities. A Shift Toward More Personalized Health Tracking The update brings two key additions. First, Hormonal Birth Control support builds on Oura’s existing Cycle Insights feature. It allows users to log different types of contraception, including pills, patches, IUDs, and implants, and track how these methods affect metrics such as body temperature, sleep, and recovery. The goal is…

Virtual Reality headsets have spent years being marketed around video games, virtual cinemas, and fitness. Cornell researchers, however, are showing how these can also be used as a solid creative tool. A doctoral student at Cornell has helped develop an extended reality tool called “DanXeReflect”, which lets dancers use VR headsets to analyze and refine their movement in an immersive virtual studio. How DanXeReflect makes dance videos into a powerful rehearsal tool The cool thing about DanXeReflect is that it transforms regular 2D video into a virtual environment where movement appears through interactive avatars. So dancers don’t have to sit…

Norwegian-American robotics firm 1X Technologies has offered a glimpse into what scaled humanoid robot production looks like, and it’s surprisingly circular. In a newly released demo, its Neo robot is shown assisting humans on the factory floor, helping build more Neo units as the company moves toward full-scale manufacturing. Robots helping build more robots At the center of the demo is 1X’s Neo humanoid robot, a bipedal machine designed primarily for domestic environments that is now stepping into early manufacturing workflows. The footage shows Neo performing repetitive, assistive tasks alongside human workers, effectively becoming part of the assembly process. The…

History has shown that we humans like the movement of light – babies, children, teenagers, adults, and even the elderly are drawn to flashing colors with matching rhythmic sounds. It’s why slot machines, televisions, phones, and yes, video games, keep us glued to their presentation. Poncle’s latest game, a first-person dungeon crawler aptly titled Vampire Crawlers, uses these sensations to bring to life its simple but effective deckbuilding roguelite in a way as idiosyncratic as its parallel predecessor, Vampire Survivors. And though I find my enjoyment crossing back and forth between a TikTok-like compulsion (derogatory) and a genuine craving for…

AI has plenty of messy use cases, but emergency medicine may be one place where it can do some real good. A Harvard study comparing AI performance against doctors using patient data from emergency-room cases revealed that OpenAI’s o1 reasoning model outperformed human doctors in emergency triage diagnosis, especially in cases where decisions had to be made quickly with limited information. What did the test reveal? A part of the Harvard trial included 76 patients who arrived at the emergency room of a Boston hospital. The AI model and two human doctors were given the same electronic health record, including…

The MacBook Neo stopped me in my tracks, not because it’s a beautiful piece of tech that appeals to the enthusiast inside me. It’s the overall pitch that Apple puts on the table — aluminum build, efficient silicon, and great battery life — all at an implausible price tag of $599. I wanted to experience it, and I almost bought it a couple of weeks ago.  But I didn’t. And it wasn’t because Neo is a bad machine. I got to experience the device for a couple of days (thanks to my friend who splurged his money on it), and…

German smartphone maker Volla has launched two new mid-range phones that go against the grain. The Volla Phone Plinius and Plinius Plus are built to last, ship without Google, and let you swap the battery yourself. That last part alone makes them stand out from almost every other smartphone on the market. Both phones share the same core design: a flat frame, slim bezels, and a 6.67-inch OLED display with a 120Hz refresh rate and 1,000 nits of peak brightness. It even works with wet hands and gloves, which is a nice touch if you spend time outdoors.  Despite allowing…

University of Queensland researchers have developed indoor solar panels that could one day power your wearables, sensors, and small electronics using nothing but the light already in your home or office. The panels are based on perovskite, a material that has been gaining attention as a successor to traditional silicon in solar cells. While silicon-based indoor solar cells top out at around 10 percent efficiency, perovskite can do significantly better.  The catch has always been that most perovskite solar cells rely on lead and hazardous solvents in their production, which is a problem for both safety and scaling up to…

Amazon is giving product pages the podcast treatment, and it’s as useful as it sounds. This might sound like a neat new trick till you hear what some of these AI “hosts” are actually discussing. The company recently expanded its “Hear the highlights” feature with a new interactive mode called “Join the chat.” This feature lets shoppers listen to AI-generated audio summaries about the products they are viewing, and even ask questions by text or voice while the audio is playing. It added a layer of interactivity, with these AI hosts being capable of pausing and answering in real time.…