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Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority Fitbit is one of the most popular fitness tracker companies around, and its Versa and Charge lines are at the top of the pile. You don’t need to spend a ton of cash to get these devices though, as the Versa 4 and Charge 5 just received hefty price cuts for Prime Day. Starting with …

Adam Crafton / The Athletic: How Apple expanded into sports since 2022, starting with the MLB, leading to an unusual deal to bring Messi to the MLS and share new subscriber revenue with him  —  In 2019, during an interview with Sports Illustrated, the Apple senior vice president of services, Eddy Cue …

The launch of Threads, Meta’s new Twitter killer, has catapulted some of us into a social media midlife crisis. What is it all for, anyway? Maybe some shiny new app will bring meaning and texture back to microblogging. But also, do we need so many shiny new apps? It’s fitting, then, that just as Twitter is getting a rethink a …

Google’s Behshad Behzadi weighs in on how to use generative AI chatbots without compromising company information. Image: Sundry Photography/Adobe Stock Google’s Bard, one of today’s high-profile generative AI applications, is used with a grain of salt within the company. In June 2023, Google asked its staff not to feed confidential materials into Bard, Reuters found through leaked internal documents. It …

Return to menu Our take: A very competent printer/scanner for home office use, hamstrung by strange decisions and questionable services. Pros: Easy setup, sharp print quality Cons: Uses relatively small (and sometimes wasteful) ink cartridges, free HP+ takes some control away from the user What we found: On paper, HP’s ENVY Inspire 7955e sounds like a pretty competent printer/scanner hybrid …

If you’re looking to pick up a great smartwatch during this Amazon Prime Day sale, you can definitely consider the Samsung Galaxy Watch 5. The WearOS smartwatch gives you the freedom to use third-party and Google apps. It’s also fully equipped with all the smarts packed into a great design, including temperature measurement, SpO2 monitoring, GPS tracking, hear-rate measurement, comprehensive …

Bloomberg: The SEC sues ex-Celsius Network CEO Alex Mashinsky and the company over selling unregistered crypto securities; a source says Mashinsky was arrested on Thursday  —  The former chief executive officer of bankrupt crypto lender Celsius Network Ltd. was arrested following a probe into the company’s collapse …

Another week, another catastrophic failure of policy at Twitter that’s being eagerly exploited by its myriad competitors—and they truly are myriad. Mastodon, Bluesky, Hive, Cohost, Post, the late Parler, Gab, Truth Social, GETTR, Substack Notes, Spoutible, and now, of course, Threads. And yet, in spite of the momentary success of some of these platforms—Threads has gotten over 70 million signups …

Twitter asked a federal court Thursday to terminate a Federal Trade Commission order that puts restrictions on its data security practices, alleging that the agency has “spiraled out of control and become tainted by bias.” The company argued in a filing with the Northern California District Court that the FTC has been conducting a “burdensome and vexatious enforcement” investigation of …

Ryan Haines / Android Authority When it comes to the best Android tablets on the market, there are usually two use cases: you need something incredibly powerful or something incredibly cheap. There’s not much room for a middle ground. However, the Samsung Galaxy Tab A8 exists in that middle ground by offering a great experience but with a relatively high …