#activity-monitoring

#activity-monitoring

We on the WIRED Reviews team often test (and love) smart rings. With these wearable health-monitoring devices, users can track important metrics like activity, health, and sleep, and the data is offloaded to your phone so you can easily review results without needing a cumbersome screen like you would with a smartwatch or fitness tracker. Within the ever-growing pet tech sphere I cover, many pet-related companies are integrating these health-monitoring features with trackers, popular for locating your pet whether you're near or far.

Discord is expanding the safety controls parents and guardians have access to in its Family Center, including increased visibility of their teens' activity, allowing guardians to control sensitive content filtering and data privacy settings, and giving them more control over who can DM their teens. New Social Permissions toggles will allow guardians to choose whether their teens can receive direct messages only from friends or from anyone who's a member of the same servers as them. However, Discord is still promising teens that, "As always, guardians can't see the content of the messages you send."

The Oura Ring's new algorithm uses machine learning for more accurate step counting and activity tracking, impacting overall fitness metrics.