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Samsung Launches Its First AI-Powered Smart Ring With Biometric Health Monitoring
- Written by Andrea Miliani Former Tech News Expert
- Fact-Checked by Justyn Newman Former Lead Cybersecurity Editor
Samsung officially announced on Wednesday its new Galaxy Ring, as part of its new additions to its wearable portfolio. The new AI-powered product will track users’ biometric health, can be worn all day, and will connect to Samsung’s smartphones and watches. The model can be purchased in three different color choices—gold, black, and silver—, from sizes 5 to 13.
“Galaxy Ring delivers a straight-forward approach to wellness, offering health monitoring, tracking, and personalized insights while worn comfortably on a finger, even while asleep,” states the document. The ring is water resistant and has a Titanium grade 5 finish, and its battery can last for up to 7 days.
Among its main uses, Samsung has highlighted the wearable’s wellness features like a powerful sleep AI algorithm for sleep quality tracking—considers snoring analysis, heart and respiratory rates, moving, and sleep latency to provide a Sleep Score—, Cycle Tracking for women’s menstrual cycle—including skin temperature monitoring—, Energy Scores—considers physical state and improvements—, Auto Workout Detection, and a Heart Rate Alert feature for unusual heart rates in real-time.
Users will get wellness tips, notifications, and reports with comprehensive data and personalized interests through the Samsung Health App. The Galaxy Ring will include new gestures to take photos with the connected smartphone—with a double pinch— and dismiss alarms.
According to The Verge , the new wearable will be available for sale starting at $399.99. The Galaxy Ring is competing against other smart rings like the popular Oura Ring with a few advantages and disadvantages—like the ring being Android only.
The Verge’s journalist Victoria Song tested the ring and shared positive feedback and a few thoughts. “The Galaxy Ring’s success hinges on two things: accurate tracking and good battery life,” wrote Song, “Samsung could very well take the lead in the smart ring category.”
Samsung has been regaining relevance in the smartphone market globally and is now expanding to wearables. Soon, users should be able to compare and tell if Samsung’s new smart ring will also take the lead in the wearables ecosystem.
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Social Media Platform X Is Building A Dislike Button For Replies
- Written by Andrea Miliani Former Tech News Expert
- Fact-Checked by Justyn Newman Former Lead Cybersecurity Editor
Elon Musk’s social media platform X is testing a new dislike button for post replies that will affect how these rank. X hasn’t confirmed this information but multiple users on the platform have reported it.
According to TechCrunch , the company—formerly Twitter—had already tested this feature across all posts in 2021. Now, the new function seems to be working only for selected users. The icon looks like a broken heart on the iOS app and is located right next to the heart—like— button. Users have shared videos of how the new button looks like and how it works.
INSIGHT: The new dislike button in action seems to only be intended for replies https://t.co/QDGadIDtPd — X Daily News (@xDaily) July 11, 2024
MacRumors researcher Aaron Perris shared on X , images of the icons X is testing and how it works. After clicking on the dislike icon, a message requesting to confirm the decision shows up: “Do you want to downvote this post?” Other users got similar messages with different wording.
People have shown interest and opinions on this new feature, and have compared it to other platforms like Reddit’s downvote feature. “On Reddit this just leads to zealous groups who dislike certain things to brigade hated posts with negatives to unduly affect the perception of it and bury it,” explained one user, “It also leads to dissent (people who don’t fit in or go against the groups core views) being negged into the ground even if they make a good point.” Another user seemed to find a clear purpose: “Let’s all agree to dislike that posts that have nothing to do with the original content.”
NEWS: X is testing a dislike button pic.twitter.com/g77JX99a9s — X Daily News (@xDaily) July 10, 2024
This new feature comes just weeks after X announced that they will be removing the Likes section from profiles and that this will remain a private feature. Likes on posts are still an active feature, but users cannot see who liked the post. X has been working on multiple updates this year. From officially changing the URL from Twitter.com to X.com , to likes features updates, to ending partnerships with other companies.
