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Over the past four months, I’ve been testing some of the biggest names in wearables — from the best Garmin watches and best Fitbits, to smart rings by Oura and Ultrahuman — tracking everything from sleep quality to step counts to early signs of getting sick. Samsung’s Galaxy Ring, released in April 2024, is the brand’s first entry into the smart ring space, promising a slim titanium design, solid battery life, and smooth integration with the Galaxy ecosystem.After wearing it for two months, I can attest that it’s a comfortable, minimalist, well-made ring that nails the basics and has a…
Ohio State climbed to No. 1 in The Associated Press Top 25 college football poll on Tuesday, LSU and Miami moved into the top five, and Florida State jumped back into the rankings at the expense of Alabama, which plummeted to its lowest spot in 17 seasons.The defending national champion Buckeyes received 55 of 66 first-place votes to move up two spots after their win over preseason No. 1 Texas. Ohio State is at the top of a regular-season Top 25 for the first time since November 2015. Texas dropped to No. 7 as the media voters shuffled the rankings…
The clock is ticking, and exhibit space at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 is filling up fast. With just 4 days left to book your table, now’s the time to stop circling the idea and claim your spot on the show floor. Only 10 tables remain — and once they’re gone, they’re gone. No waitlist. No last-minute add-ons. Disrupt draws over 10,000 startup and VC leaders, and the exhibit floor is where some of the biggest conversations begin. If you’ve got a killer product, a bold vision, or early traction, and you’re ready to scale, then this is your platform. Image Credits:Silkroad…
NEW YORK (AP) — After not being able to get past the quarterfinals at a Grand Slam tournament for much of her career, Jessica Pegula broke through that wall again at the U.S. Open.Pegula defeated Barbora Krejcikova 6-3, 6-3 on Tuesday to get to the semifinals of a major for just the second time. She failed to advance into the semis in her first 22 main draw appearances at a major before reaching the final at Flushing Meadows a year ago, when she lost to Aryna Sabalenka.“My biggest accomplishment last year was just getting past the quarterfinals,” Pegula said. “Now…
A startup that’s developed an AI “copilot” to provide engineers with information about mechanical systems has raised $9.7 million in seed funding.Massachusetts-based Leo AI has created what it calls a large mechanical model, or “LMM,” that’s trained on engineering materials like sketches and peer-reviewed technical literature.Engineers can enter prompts, like “show me a bolt that fits this hole,” and the AI can display the correct one. In addition to text, engineers can input sketches and 3D designs, and they can also use the tool to visualize concepts.”We developed the first AI to understand geometry and engineering,” Leo AI’s cofounder and…
Stress on college students can be palpable, and it hits them from every direction: academic challenges, social pressures and financial burdens, all intermingled with their first taste of independence. It’s part of the reason why anxiety and depression are common among the 19 million students now enrolled in U.S. colleges and universities, and why incidents of suicide and suicidal ideation are rising.In the 2024 National College Health Assessment Report, 30% of the 30,000 students surveyed said anxiety negatively affected their academic performance, with 20% at risk for symptoms that suggest severe psychological distress, such as feelings of sadness, nervousness and…
The Ryder Cup is still three weeks away and it feels as though it already has started.The opening shot was not from the first tee at Bethpage Black in a foursomes match. It was 1,600 miles (2,575 km) away in Frisco, Texas, where Keegan Bradley kept golf fans in suspense over whether he would be the first playing captain in 62 years.Bradley knew all along he wasn’t playing.He said after announcing his six picks last Wednesday — four of them are below him in the world ranking — the decision “was made a while ago that I wasn’t playing.” This…
NEW YORK (AP) — Once Naomi Osaka is in the quarterfinals of a Grand Slam tournament, look out.For a while, it was getting there that was the problem.Right now, Osaka appears to be back at her best, and she most definitively is back at that stage of a major, getting ready to face Karolina Muchova at the U.S. Open on Wednesday for a spot in the semifinals.It’s the first time Osaka — who has been ranked No. 1 and now is seeded No. 23 — has made it this far at one of the four most important events in tennis…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei doesn’t mince words.He’s rankled some rival tech CEOs by boldly predicting that AI could wipe out half of entry-level, white-collar jobs and that the upheaval could happen between now and the next five years.While Meta and others in Big Tech pushed Congress for a 10-year moratorium on state-level AI regulations, Amodei argued against it in a New York Times op-ed. (His side won, the provision was stripped before President Donald Trump’s sweeping “Big Beautiful Bill” became law.)Amodei has clashed with Nvidia and its CEO, Jensen Huang, including by pushing for US-imposed export controls on AI that…
Consulting has long been a desirable and lucrative industry in which to land a job, which means there’s a lot of competition.Spencer Anderson, a former Bain senior manager who spent almost nine years at the firm, shared his top tips for standing out in an interview during an information session hosted by Leland — a career coaching platform where he now serves as head of revenue.Here are his top five tips.Be yourselfConsultants at Bain come from a wide range of backgrounds, Anderson said. Some of them have STEM degrees, others studied the humanities. And then there’s the more traditional finance…