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Apple Watch Series 8 Reportedly Able to Detect Fevers

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Apple Watch Series 8 Reportedly Able to Detect Fevers

The upcoming Apple Watch Series 8 will reportedly come with a body temperature sensor that can tell whether you’re running a fever, according to a report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. Instead of giving you an exact reading, Gurman believes the watch should be able to detect a spike in body temperature, and then encourage you to talk to a doctor or use a thermometer…

Elon Musk’s Starlink Can Now Beam Wifi to Cars, Boats, and Planes

Starlink just got the green light to expand on land, air and sea. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) authorized SpaceX to provide Starlink wifi to vehicles in motion, including semitrucks and RVs, planes, and boats…

Satellites Can Now Find the Sources of Methane Leaks. the Tech Will Reshape Global Climate Accountability.

Over five years, California’s largest natural-gas utility received a handful of critical alerts about methane escaping from its infrastructure. The leaks might have gone undetected for much longer…

Raspberry Pi Announces the Pico W, a $6 Microcontroller Equipped With Wi-Fi

Raspberry Pi has introduced a successor to last year’s Pico, a $4 microcontroller based on the RP2040 chip the company designed itself. The new model is called the Pico W. It’s basically the same hardware, but it adds, as the name suggests, an 802.11n Wi-Fi radio, making it useful for putting together IoT projects and the like. It’s also more expensive than the standard Pico, coming in at $6…