Jess Weatherbed

News Reporter

Adobe Substance 3D’s AI features can turn text into backgrounds and textures

Jess WeatherbedMar 18, 2024

Fitbit by Google is now just Google Fitbit.

Three years after completing its $2.1 billion acquisition of Fitbit, Google has taken another step towards integrating the fitness-tracking company into its hardware lineup with some updated branding.

Recent changes on the Fitbit website, first spotted by 9to5Google, include an updated wordmark that uses capitalized Google Sans font and ditches the dotted arrow logo, which is still featured on the brand’s favicon.

A screengrab of the Fitbit website showing updated Google branding.

A screenshot taken of the Fitbit website showing older branding.

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Here’s the updated “Google Fitbit” branding on the top left of the website homepage.

Image: Google

Mercedes is trialing humanoid robots for ‘low skill, repetitive’ tasks

Jess WeatherbedMar 15, 2024

FCC clamps down on confusing ‘hidden fees’ in your cable TV bill

Jess WeatherbedMar 15, 2024

SpaceX successfully launched its Starship, but the vehicle was ‘lost’ after reentry

Jess Weatherbed and Richard LawlerMar 14, 2024

The SEC is sick of Elon Musk’s attempts to delay its Twitter investigation

Jess WeatherbedMar 14, 2024

SpaceX isn’t too worried about Starship launch delays.

If the current launch needs to be abandoned, the SpaceX livestream presenters said the company has outlined other opportunities to attempt the latest Starship test flight within the next 24-48 hours, depending on how far they can get with today’s testing.

Things do, however, currently look good for an imminent launch in six minutes.

Jess WeatherbedMar 14, 2024

SpaceX readies its third Starship rocket test flight: watch the launch here.

After the first two Starship tests went up in flames, SpaceX says it’s now attempting “a number of ambitious objectives” for today’s targeted 9:25AM ET launch, including:

The successful ascent burn of both stages, opening and closing Starship’s payload door, a propellant transfer demonstration during the upper stage’s coast phase, the first ever re-light of a Raptor engine while in space, and a controlled reentry of Starship. It will also fly a new trajectory, with Starship targeted to splashdown in the Indian Ocean.