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Is the Treadmill or Your Watch More Accurate on How Far You’ve Run?
We may earn a commission from links on this page. Outdoors, smartwatches do a great job of telling you how far you ran or walked. Indoors, they often disagree with the readout on the gym’s treadmill. Which leaves a lot of us wondering—should we trust the treadmill, or the watch? The answer to this question is the treadmill. The treadmill…
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ChatGPT’s New Camera Feature Is Scarily Accurate
After months of testing, OpenAI rolled out “advanced voice” mode for ChatGPT back in September. The feature lets you have real-time conversations with ChatGPT: You can interrupt the bot and its “speaking” to ask another question, and it understands your tone of voice, which it uses to both inform its responses, as well as the inflection it uses. (It’s very…
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You’ll Never Know How Accurate Your Fitness Tracker Is, and That’s OK
The appeal of fitness-tracking smartwatches is that they have all the answers. They turn our squishy bodies’ inscrutable secrets into hard numbers we can plainly read and analyze. But we would be fooling ourselves if we believed that our smartwatches always tell the truth. According to a new scientific analysis, not only do wearables often get things wrong, it may…
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