It depends on what exactly you care most about tracking.

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If you're obsessed with tracking your health there's an excellent chance you already own either a smart ring or a smart watch. But what if you're just getting into fitness and want to know which wearable offers the best health monitoring features? In broad strokes, smartwatches are better for tracking exercise thanks to their extensive app support, while smart rings are ideal for monitoring sleep patterns as they're so lightweight and comfortable. Both sets of devices have their strengths and weaknesses (smartwatches have to be charged far more regularly than rings, just to name one example), so let's get into which health tracking wearable is right for you.

John Oliver discussed the tools that police are using to keep track of Americans on the latest episode of Last Week Tonight.

In recent years, the use of surveillance technology has exploded among local police forces due to decreasing prices and federal funding, with one local mayor comparing modern systems to “Big Brother on steroids”.

Alan Jones has enjoyed decades as the centre of attention, as the wielder of power.

The booming voice, the vast radio audience, the bully pulpit of an eponymous TV show, the great and the good on speed-dial, a staffer in the prime ministerial office dubbed the “minister for Alan Jones”: these were not ancillaries peripheral to the Jones empire, they were central to it.

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Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin is facing growing backlash among prominent figures in President Donald Trump’s base who say he’s too soft on immigration, after he advocated for some reforms, including an expansion of permanent visas.

The divide AI is opening between workers is not a talent gap. It is a design gap.

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My last piece was about capital: that as AI compounds the returns to ownership, the work of this decade is to get ordinary people onto the compounding side of the economy before the divide hardens into a canyon. This one is about labor — the people still in the room as the machines arrive, and a second divide quietly opening among them.

Romanian naval forces carried out a controlled explosion to help redirect vital cooling water from the drought-hit Danube to the country’s last working nuclear ⁠reactor, while neighbouring Hungary ​said it may be able to eke out two more days of power from its only atomic plant.

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Dec 8, 2019 Hawthorne / Los Angeles / CA / USA - SpaceX (Space Exploration Technologies Corp.) building. SpaceX's first earnings report as a public company is on August 4.

Henry Pollock is set to demand a substantial increase on his current Northampton contract to stay at Franklin's Gardens, with agent Eddie Hearn suggesting annual earnings of £1m are the going rate for the 21-year-old star.

A phone that's too hot can actually explode. Not great.

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If you've ever finished a long drive, only to find your phone too toasty to touch when you fish it out of its mount, you've probably wondered what you did wrong. An overheating phone can be a serious issue. At best, it can be rough on the phone's internal components, or even cause the adhesive holding the screen and backplate to come apart (ask me how I know). At worst, an overheated battery can begin to experience thermal runaway  — when the battery can no longer safely dissipate heat, leading to a dangerous thermochemical reaction or even an explosion  — a phenomenon you may know as battery swelling, aka the dreaded "spicy pillow."