The best way to keep at your fitness regime is to buy a device that tracks your workouts. Fitbits, Apple Watches and other devices make it easy to inspire yourself by showing you your progress and even some areas you could do better in. The best fitness tracker visualizes your goals and progress to help inspire you. They hold you accountable, too. A number of other features that are included with almost every fitness tracker include sleep tracking, heart rate calculating and blood oxygen monitoring.

There are dozens of dedicated fitness tracker options to choose from — from the classic fitness-tracker watch design (including the much-loved Fitbit) to shoe insoles with activity tracking features to the famous smartwatch, the Apple Watch. We’ve rounded up six of our favorite trackers based on price, form and function. Each of them requires a mobile app to track your progress and some let you see phone notifications on your wrist.

Fitness tracking is great for keeping you motivated, but remember that not even the most advanced activity tracker will do the work for you. Still, no matter your health and fitness goals
, any one of the activity trackers here will help you achieve peak performance. We’ll be testing and updating this best fitness trackers list periodically. If you’re looking for more smart features and advanced fitness insights, make sure to check out our list of best smartwatches for 2022 with recommendations for the top Garmin, Apple Watch, Samsung Galaxy Watch and Polar

Google and the Renault Group are expanding their four-year-old partnership to include the development of an advanced software platform for future vehicles. This “software-defined vehicle” will be built on Google’s Android Automotive operating system and send data to the company’s cloud servers for processing, the companies announced.

In 2018, Renault struck a deal with Google as part of a broader partnership between the tech giant and the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance, which collectively is one of the largest auto groups in the world. As part of the deal, the Alliance announced that it would adopt Google’s native car operating system, which offers built-in Assistant, Maps, and Play Store.

Today’s announcement, though, is just between Google and Renault. As such, it only applies to the French automaker’s four brands, Renault, Dacia, Alpine, and Mobilize. Renault says it is appointing Google as its “preferred cloud provider.” (Other automakers have gone with Amazon Web Services.)

That first deal was just about putting Android in millions of new vehicles. Today’s announcement is a little more complex. Google and Renault say they will work together to create a “Digital Twin,” or a virtual carbon copy of a vehicle that features advanced artificial intelligence capabilities “for an easier and continuous integration of new services into the vehicle and the creation of new onboard ( In-Car Services) and offboard applications,” the companies announced.

Google and Renault claim that collaborating on software and testing out new AI capabilities in

New video captured by scientists suggests octopuses aren’t shy about throwing down. First-of-its-kind footage shows the creatures propelling silt and shells through the water.

“Wild octopuses project various kinds of material through the water in jet-propelled ‘throws,’ and these throws sometimes hit other octopuses,” reads a statement from the University of Sydney Peter Godfrey-Smith and colleagues who authored a study published Wednesday in the journal Plos One.

In a full 24 hours of footage recorded off the coast of Australia in 2015 and 2016 using underwater cameras, the researchers cataloged 102 examples of gloomy octopuses (Octopus tetricus) tossing everything from dirt and debris to the octopus equivalent of table scraps around the sea floor .

In one clip, a female octopus can be seen tossing off a shell after chowing down its contents.

“There is some evidence that some of these throws that hit others are targeted, and play a social role,” the authors add.

Somewhat ironically, the octopuses aren’t relying so much on any of their eight arms to make these throws. Instead they gather up the material to be tossed and then propel it through the water using their siphon, which is a tube-like part of their anatomy that can eject water at high speed. So it’s a little bit like an underwater hydraulic slingshot action rather than a throw the way

With new hardware, software and artificial intelligence technology, Google expects significant photography improvements to its Pixel 7 Pro. And CNET has the exclusive deep dive into exactly what the company has done with its smartphone camera.

In part because of Google’s photography technology, Google positions its $899 flagship Android phone as a direct competitor to Apple’s $1,099 iPhone 14 Pro Max, though the smaller $999 iPhone 14 Pro has the same camera hardware.

Google’s Pixel phones haven’t sold well compared with models from Samsung and Apple. But they’ve earned high marks for photography year after year. And if anything is going to win customers over, it’ll be camera technology.

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Last year’s Pixel 6 Pro introduced a “camera bar” housing three rear cameras — its 50-megapixel main camera, a 0.7x ultrawide angle and a 4x telephoto. The Pixel 7 models’ keeps the same 50-megapixel camera and f1.85 aperture but houses it in a restyled camera bar. On the Pixel 7 Pro, the ultrawide has the same sensor as last year but gets a macro mode, f2.2 aperture, autofocus and a wider 0.5x zoom. The 7 Pro’s telephoto’s zoom magnification extends to 5x with an f3.5 aperture, and a new 48-megapixel telephoto sensor enables a 10x zoom mode without using any digital magnification tricks. Both phones get a new front-facing selfie camera.

But the Pixel 7 Pro’s improved hardware foundation is only part of the

Netflix is ​​packed with world-class sports documentaries.

At the top of the pile is Untold, a series of immaculate features about the strangest, most incredible stories in sport over the past few decades. But there’s one documentary I rarely hear people discuss. And they should, because it’s incredible.

Coming in at an accessible 40 minutes, The Speed ​​Cubers is a short, barely feature-length documentary about speed cubing, the act of solving different types of Rubik’s Cubes as quickly as possible.

Speed ​​cubing is mind boggling. Most people would struggle to figure out a 3x3x3 Rubik’s Cube in hours if challenged, but the best can solve them in seconds. The Speed ​​Cubers explores this subculture, focusing on the stories of two of the world’s fastest, the legendary Feliks Zemdegs and the new king of speed cubing, Max Park.

In some ways, Zemdegs is the Roger Federer of Rubik’s Cubes. Despite the fact every speed cubing record he once held has now been broken, he’s widely considered the greatest of all time, having established up to 121 world records and winning the speed cubing world championship twice, in 2013 and 2015.

Zemdegs is the hero of Parks, who now, in 2022, has broken almost every record Zemdegs once held. Now 20 years old, Park was diagnosed with moderate to severe autism at the age of two. After his mother gave him a Rubik’s Cube to help develop his motor skills, Parks quickly