Category: Technology

All three route-planning feature updates will be available by July. Strava is making it easier to plan workouts and keep activity leaderboard rankings fair. The updates rolling out over the coming weeks focus on helping users optimize their workout routes to compete against other users and their own personal bests, building on some of the…

Following the debut of the Oura Ring 4 last October, which featured improved accuracy for blood oxygen tracking and heart rate readings, the company has announced it’s introducing additional algorithm improvements that will deliver more comprehensive and accurate movement tracking. First announced last month, the updates are now “rolling out to members globally” and include…

TikTok users will now be able to save tracks they discover straight to their SoundCloud app. On Wednesday, the two companies announced they’re partnering to expand an existing TikTok feature that was previously available to users of music streaming platforms like Apple Music and Spotify. The “add to music app” button appears when a TikTok…

Google’s new Material 3 Expressive design language includes a welcome surprise for Pixel owners: the mandatory At a Glance home screen widget has shrunk, leaving space for an extra row of apps. The new look is included in the latest version of the Android 16 beta. Upon installation, Pixel owners are greeted with a pop-up…

The Windows 11 handoff feature. Microsoft is working on a new “Cross Device Resume” feature for Windows 11 that works similarly to Apple’s Handoff feature in macOS. The feature was spotted in a Microsoft Build 2025 session, before Windows Central noticed Microsoft editing out the demo that showed a mobile Spotify session resuming on a…

Google CEO Sundar Pichai at Google I/O 2025. Google I/O was, as predicted, an AI show. But now that the keynote is over, we can see that the company’s vision is to use AI to eventually do a lot of Googling for you. A lot of that vision rests on AI Mode in Google Search,…

Slimmed down and shiny. | Image: Miniot The original Wheel vertical turntable was a bust, the Wheel 2 redemption, and now the small mom and pop team at Miniot is back for a victory lap with the Wheel 3. It can play your record collection upright on its stand, laid flat on a table, or…

A year ago Xbox president Sarah Bond revealed that Microsoft was planning to launch a new Xbox mobile web store in July 2024. That never happened. I’ve been wondering what the hold up has been over the past year, and it seems we might have an answer: Apple. Microsoft filed an amicus brief late on…

Amazon is issuing refunds to customers who’d returned products but never received their money back, in some cases from as long ago as 2018.  “Following a recent internal review, we identified a very small subset of returns that were unresolved because we could not verify that the correct item had been sent back to us,”…

Protesters outside Microsoft’s Build conference Microsoft’s head of security for AI, Neta Haiby, accidentally revealed confidential messages about Walmart’s use of Microsoft’s AI tools during a Build talk that was disrupted by protesters.  The Build livestream was muted and the camera pointed down, but the session resumed moments later after the protesters were escorted out….