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Victoria Song

Victoria Song

Senior Reviewer, Wearable Tech

Senior Reviewer, Wearable Tech

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    Nowatch review: a chic stress tracker for the Goop faithful

    It’s an elegant device, but the ‘awareable’ may not appeal if cultivating mindfulness isn’t your main priority.

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    Victoria Song
    Victoria Song
    Digital birth control is catching on.

    It’s been six months since Natural Cycles began letting users import Oura Ring temperature data for its FDA-cleared digital birth control feature. There are a ton of privacy concerns with fertility tracking in the post-Roe era, but it appears the partnership is going well. The companies say 200,000 cycles and 6 million temperatures have been logged, with 98 percent of surveyed users saying they’ll continue using the integration to track their cycles.

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    Victoria Song
    Get it together Fitbit!

    Once again, Fitbit isn’t working as it should. Things fell apart Monday morning, with thousands of users asking each other on social media if the Fitbit app was completely borked. A fix was pushed out, only for the same issues to crop up on Tuesday.

    It’s now Wednesday and things still aren’t working right for a handful of users. DownDetector shows it’s not nearly as bad today, but it’s the principle of the matter.

    Nix’s Hydration Biosensor is for athletes who sweat the details

    Hydration doesn’t have to be this high-tech or complicated, but nerdy endurance athletes might find the data worth the price.

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