Should the Versa be your next fitness tracker?
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Happy Friday! Today we've got a bunch of stuff that'll get you primed for leaving the office and going out into the world -- including a review of one of the best fitness trackers we've ever tested, a mind-blowing map of the world, and a wild new way to travel that's just around the corner. Enjoy! |
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I put the Fitbit Versa 3 on more than 10 days ago and have pretty much forgotten it was on my wrist, meaning it has stayed there 24-hours a day, silently tracking my movements, sleep, and workouts. The way it has slipped into my everyday life is a testament to its simplicity and good design, and although it's not really a smartwatch, it's a definite step above basic fitness trackers.
After testing it out for the past couple week's I can confidently say that the Fitbit Versa 3 may be one of the most comfortable fitness wearables I've ever put on my wrist. It's a true wear-and-forget device, not just from a hardware perspective, but from the simple and effective fitness and health tracking tools, for day and night, too.
Good though this all is, it also works against the Versa 3, because the boring design isn't one you'll be itching to show off. Check out our full review for details. |
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What is the internet, and how do you map it? It's a tricky question. Despite the fact that it is sometimes, called "cyberspace," suggesting some kind of geography, it's not entirely clear what a map of the internet should actually look like. Is it a map showing the internet, as the former U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens once put it, as a "series of tubes," piping hot information around the world at 300,000,000 meters per second? Is it a map, akin to the opening credits of Silicon Valley, depicting the opulent headquarters of those companies who rule the online sphere: the Googles, Facebooks, Amazons, and Baidus of this world?
To Martin Vargic, it's neither: It's an 18th-century-style map that looks like something out of the golden age of cartography, only depicting the world's 3,000 most heavily trafficked websites instead of countries and cities.
"Sites that are similar are grouped into continents and regions," Vargic, a 23-year-old self-taught graphic designer from Bratislava, Slovakia, told Digital Trends. "It's quite accurate. I use the annual average Alexa rating, which ranks websites by their visitor numbers and popularity ratings. The higher the ranking, the larger the country appears on the map. So Google is No. 1, meaning that it's the largest. YouTube is No. 2, so it's the second largest. And so on." |
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The return of supersonic passenger travel took a significant step forward this week after United Airlines announced a plan to purchase 15 aircraft from Boom Supersonic.
The agreement between the two companies will see United purchase 15 of Boom's under-development Overture aircraft so long as the high-speed jet meets particular safety, operating, and sustainability requirements. United, which also has an option to buy a further 35 Overture planes at a later date, wants to put the aircraft into commercial service in 2029.
Overture is designed to carry up to 75 passengers and fly at speeds of Mach-1.7. That's just over 1,300 mph, or twice the speed of today's fastest airliners. That means Overture will be able to fly from, say, Newark to London in three-and-a-half hours, Newark to Frankfurt in four hours, and San Francisco to Tokyo in six hours — in some cases slashing the usual journey time in half. |
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TIPS, TRICKS, & TECHNIQUES |
We're all familiar with Siri by now. The famous intelligent voice assistant debuted in 2011 with the iPhone 4S, and since then Siri has appeared on pretty much every Apple device you care to name. To use Siri, you usually say "Hey Siri" near your Apple device, and the voice assistant will talk back to you.
The thing is, you may not necessarily like Siri's voice. Perhaps you'd like "her" to be a "him," or perhaps you want Siri to speak with a British accent. Either way, we explain in this article how to change Siri's voice, covering the iPhone, iPad, and Mac. We also explain how to change Siri's language, in case you want to speak to Apple's assistant in another tongue. |
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