Oura’s competitors fall into three groups, according to its IPO prospectus: smartwatch makers such as Apple, Google and Samsung; fitness wearables such as Garmin, Coros and Whoop; and software-only health apps. In smart rings, Oura is far ahead, with about 74% of global shipments in the first half of 2025, research firm Omdia estimates. Key … Read more
Muse’s traction is surging, fueled by Meta’s promotion of the AI app at its annual Meta Connect developer conference this week and strong early reviews that praised its polished design and highly capable AI model under the hood. At the start of the week, Muse had surpassed 2.5 million downloads since its September 8 launch. … Read more
For well over a decade, copyright holders have used U.S. federal courts to unmask anonymous BitTorrent users. Adult film producer Strike 3 Holdings has turned this into an industry of its own, filing thousands of John Doe lawsuits every year. In most of these “John Doe” cases it subpoenas the Internet provider for the subscriber’s … Read more
When Borsook and I first met, in December of last year, she was fully in the midst of what she terms “this resuscitation thing.” It had happened so quickly and altogether without her knowledge: a social media post here, another one over there, celebrated tech critics like Gil Durán of The Nerd Reich exhuming her … Read more
There is a strange moment in the life of a software product when everyone agrees that it still works, yet someone starts calling it legacy. The application opens, customers can log in, transactions go through, reports are generated, and employees know exactly how to use it. There may not even be a serious performance problem. … Read more
Computer pioneer Alan Turing is best known for his eponymous experiment to test whether artificial and human intelligence can be distinguished. However, the more important test he faced during his lifetime was cracking the Enigma code used by Nazi Germany during World War II. Now, a pair of cryptanalysts say they’ve cracked two long-unsolved messages … Read more
Every new Premier League season starts with a warning about the cost of piracy, and this year is no different. BeStreamWise, the anti-piracy campaign backed by Sky, the Premier League, FACT, the BBC and the UK Intellectual Property Office, among others, released a new report this week to highlight the ongoing challenge. The campaign commissioned … Read more
Slate Auto Fastback SUV Photograph: Joyce Lee Tisha Johnson is a rarity in the car world: an automotive design leader who is not a man. Women are sometimes put in charge of the interiors or the materials, but few get to shape the whole look of a vehicle. As head of design at the EV-maker … Read more
Back to the days of the telephone, helping your friend with the computer was a bit like this: Human A – Hey, so, yes, wait, you need to close the window. Human B – What window? Human A – Well, how many windows you have? Human B – I have 20 tabs. Human A – … Read more
Thousands of databases hosted by development platform Supabase are exposing people’s sensitive information to the public web, new security research by cybersecurity firm UpGuard has found. UpGuard told TechCrunch that it found around 16,000 databases on which some degree of personal data was exposed while they were hosted by Supabase, which allows web and app … Read more