Fitbit unveils new Charge 5, costs CA$230

Fitbit's newest wearable is here, and the company calls the Charge 5 its "most advanced health and fitness tracker" yet. It's equipped with a brighter, colour touchscreen and up to seven days of battery life, along with six months of Fitbit Premium for free.

The Charge 5 is Fitbit's first tracker to get an EDA sensor, which measures your body's response to stress through tiny changes in the sweat glands on your fingers. Fitbit first introduced the EDA sensor in the Fitbit Sense smartwatch. 

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Fitbit Premium introduces Daily Readiness Score

Daily Readiness Score (Source: Fitbit)

Alongside the launch of the new Fitbit Charge 5, Fitbit introduced a new metric to help achieve holistic health. Fitbit Premium subscribers will soon get access to the service's new Daily Readiness Score. It uses the insights it gains to assess when you can perform your physical best. That means it'll let you know if you should work out and push yourself or you should take some time to recover.

It monitors your activity, heart rate variability (HRV) and recent sleep. You'll then receive a personalized score each morning, along with details on what impacted the score. You'll also get suggestions like a recommended activity and Premium content to help you decide what's best for your body and what workouts will be the most efficient.

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Spotify starts rolling our offline playback support on Wear OS

Spotify will let Wear OS users listen to their tunes without an internet connection with support for offline playback. The music streaming service has begun rolling this feature out. But there are caveats to this feature. You need a Wear OS 2.0 or newer device, and only Spotify Premium subscribers can download albums and playlists for offline listening. As for podcasts, both paid and free users can download these for offline playback.

Source: The Verge

J Balvin gets 'Fortnite' Icon Series

Epic Games has partnered with reggaeton artist and five-time Latin Grammy winner J Balvin. He's the newest addition to Fortnite's icon series with in-game items like a new J Balvin outfit, emote, glider, and back bling that unsheathes as a pickaxe.

You can now unlock the new outfit and back bling thanks to the J Balvin Cup. Epic will unveil the entire set later this week, on August 26 at 8 pm EST. The collection includes the J Balvin Outfit with Energia Balvin Style and Fortnitemares Skeleton Balvin Style, along with the Balvin Cruiser Glider and the In Da Party Emote.

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