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Decrypted: Health is the New Gold
Tracking your health is attracting big data and big business — and in an era where personal data is the new currency, health information is solid gold.
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TechThe Best of CES 2015
All the happenings at the International Consumer Electronics Show — CES 2015 — including groundbreaking introductions and glaring vacancies.
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TechThe Specialized Turbo S Is All About Speed
The Specialized Turbo S is sure to turn the heads of panting competitive bikers.
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TechSerial, and Putting Longform Radio Back on the Map
Despite overflowing Twitter feeds, unending notification pings, busier schedules, and a lust for just getting to the point, there’s an opportunity for the podcast to tell stories worth paying attention to.
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TechLumo Lift Is Imperfect, Though It’s No Slouch
Testing the Lumo Lift, a wearable posture coach and activity tracker that helps keep your bad body language in check.
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TechDecrypted: With Health, Microsoft Admits Defeat — and Adapts
Microsoft’s newly minted CEO Satya Nadella has no shortage of challenges ahead, with revenue streams from Windows and Office thinning. But the Microsoft Health signals a more forward-thinking direction for the company: focusing on the cloud.
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TechUSB Digital Microphones Are the Perfect Entry-Level Recording Tool
Aspiring podcasters and DIY rockstars in training, take note: you don’t need to go whole hog on a home studio to get your feet wet with home recording. All you need to get started is the right digital microphone.
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The Bicycle Wheel, Reinvented
With the highly anticipated Copenhagen Wheel, from MIT-born Superpedestrian seeks to improve urban biking.
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TechKit: Taking on Baja
Packing perfectly for the Baja Peninsula in Mexico means being prepared for everything — because anything can, and will, happen.
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TechDecrypted: Predictive Keyboards Are Taking Over Your Smartphone (and Beyond)
With this month’s introduction of iOS 8, SwiftKey — along with other alternative keyboards — have made their way over to the iPhone demographic. Suddenly, taking the words right out of one’s mouth is all the rage, but what’s it to you?
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Tech5 Essentials for the Well-Connected Home
The next frontier for mobile devices and connected technology is all about the physical domain. Phrases like “smart home” and “the internet of things” are creeping into our collective vocabulary; can those lofty ideas really change your life?
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TechDecrypted: Path Rights Its Course
It’s entirely possible that you have no idea what Path is. Until recently it had been floundering mightily.
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TechWith Zwift, Cycling Meets Video Game
Zwift is the marriage of video games and cycling trainers.
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TechDecrypted: Caution in the Age of the Quantified Self
Tracking your health and fitness with the help of smartphone apps and wearables is fun and motivating; auto insurers are now allowing drivers tracking options to prove their safety and save money.
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TechThe State of Wearables, 2014
Wearable tech is a growing and increasingly diverse market; they all track distance and calories, and most tell time. They all have their pitfalls — battery life, compatibility, reliability, size, price — but what determines the best device is your individual needs.
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TechWho Needs Wearables? These Smartphones and Apps Might Be All You Need
The ostensible benefit of smart watches and health trackers, as far as health goes, is that they allow you to monitor your calories, heart rate, and step count with previously unmatched accuracy.
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TechMeet the iBuckle, This Autumn’s Must-Have Wearable
With the release of the Apple Watch, wrist wearables may finally be finding their stride. But who cares?
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TechMeet the Only Smartphone with Dynamic Perspective
Sci-fi movies have teased us with the power and convenience of 3D interfaces for years. But Amazon’s newly launched Fire Phone, available exclusively at AT&T, proves that the wait for an advanced smartphone interface that harnesses the full potential of 3D is finally over.
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TechDecrypted: Apple Pay Will Kill the Wallet — Eventually
With the debut of the iPhone 6 (and 6 Plus) came a nugget so substantial that it deserved its own introduction: Apple Pay.