PM Images/Getty Images There is a hard way. And there is an easy way. Google, despite its willingness to collect a fair amount of bucks from me every month for my enterprise plan, does not offer an easy way. Luckily, there’s a tool that does – but first let’s recap my never-ending cloud storage saga. […] More
Surprise, surprise: another Prime Day is almost here. Though we just had a Prime Day sale in July, Amazon is hosting its Prime Big Deal Days event on Oct. 8-9, ahead of the busy holiday shopping season. Also: The best October Prime Day deals you can shop right nowAs someone who has researched and written about these deals events for over a year, I’ve noticed a lot of fake “deals” that run amok during sales like Prime Day. Brands will raise the price of a product ahead of a discount to make the deal look more attractive than it actually is. Since most people aren’t checking the price of an e-reader five days ahead of Prime Day and two days after (like I do for my job), they won’t see this trick and will think they’re saving themselves some money. They aren’t. And often, the best deals are on Amazon-owned products, like Kindles, Echo speakers, and Ring doorbells, since Amazon has the most control over its merchandise during deals events. So if you’re in the market for a new e-reader for yourself or your loved one (or you’re already getting a start on holiday shopping — kudos to you), now could be the time to buy a Kindle. Not every Kindle deal is worth your while, and I’ll do my best to highlight the ones that are during this October Prime Day. But a deals event like Prime Day is one of the best times of the year for buying a Kindle. While we wait for the official deals to take shape next week, peruse these deals on certain models, Kindle accessories, and even some dupes from Amazon Fire and Kobo Clara below. Our favorite early Amazon October Prime Day Kindle dealsKindle Oasis More
Maria Diaz/ZDNETRing made big announcements today, including the highly anticipated 24/7 recording feature, video preview alerts, doorbell calls, and extended live view. The company also rebranded its Ring Protect Plan to Ring Home. The tiered subscription plan enables customers to save videos in the cloud for later viewing, share videos, and access Ring Alarm features.Aside from a name change for its subscription plan, Ring’s biggest new feature is 24/7 recording for eligible wired cameras. This enables users to record continuously, with the cameras capturing whatever goes on around them, even outside pre-determined motion zones.Also: The 50+ best early October Prime Day 2024 deals to shop nowNotifications from the Ring mobile app will also have an option to show video previews for the first time. This type of rich notification gives users a short video preview of what triggered the motion detection alert without opening the Ring app, similar to Google Home’s preview notifications with Nest cameras. More
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High blood pressure, or hypertension, affects an estimated 1.3 billion people worldwide and results in 10 million deaths per year, according to the World Heart Federation. Impacting a person’s whole body and slowly damaging blood cells, hypertension is the number one risk factor for death on a global scale. There are effective means to treat high blood pressure, but it’s not always easy to detect and monitor. Dr. Kazuomi Kario, professor and chairman of cardiovascular medicine at Jichi Medical University, addressed the potential to manage high blood pressure with wearable technology like smartwatches in an article featured in the Journal of the American Heart Association. Also: The best smartwatches: Expert testedRecent studies show that wearables are “validated and reliable” and “have been shown to perform well against current out-of-office BP measurement approaches.” However, there are limited devices that have the tech needed to take an accurate blood pressure reading. Still, there are options. What is the best blood pressure watch you can buy right now? To help you find a smartwatch that functions as a blood pressure monitoring tool, we pulled studies from doctors to evaluate the best commercially available blood pressure watches, keeping in mind accuracy, data privacy, and price. The best blood pressure that you can purchase for the US market is the YHE BP Doctor Pro More
<!–> ZDNET’s key takeaways The Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x is currently available for $1,199 on Best Buy It combines an impressive 3K OLED display with a solid battery life – two things that historically don’t go together That said, certain apps’ lack of optimization for Windows on ARM might limit some users like content creators […] More
