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Oura is moving a respiratory sickness detection feature out of beta and rolling it out to Ring Gen 3 and Ring 4 wearers. Users with an active subscription should be able to take advantage of Symptom Radar by December 9.

Oura started publicly testing the feature earlier this year. The idea is that Symptom Radar looks at metrics including resting heart rate, skin temperature, sleep data and breathing rate to see if there are any differences from your baseline stats. If there are, Oura may let you know that it has detected possible common cold- or flu-like symptoms and offer suggestions on how to rest up and recover, such as putting your device into rest mode so you aren’t prompted to meet activity goals.

Following feedback from beta testers, Oura has added a couple of extra features to Symptom Radar. It now has a history graph showing wellness trends and whether the daily Symptom Radar result has been recorded (this should happen when a ring syncs with the Oura app each morning). There’s also a breakdown of each biometric input for those who want more granular detail on which markers have changed and by how much.

Like wellness detection features on other wearables, such as electrocardiogram readings on smart watches, this isn’t designed to make any kind of diagnosis. Instead, the aim is notify you of warning signs that a cold or flu may be about to hit so you can take action. Oura claims “Symptom Radar can detect signs of strain accurately and precisely, up to two days before a member selects an illness-related tag” in its tagging feature.

Symptom Radar stems from Oura’s work on COVID-19 detection, in which researchers found that the company’s smart rings were able to predict symptoms of the virus up to three days early with 90 percent accuracy. That led into the creation of Oura’s health management platform and then to a refined algorithm “based on a vastly increased data set, inclusive of millions of tags, that has significantly up-leveled accuracy to produce the new Symptom Radar feature.”

While features such as Symptom Radar could be helpful in detecting respiratory sickness, it’s still worth listening to your intuition and trusting your knowledge of your own body. After all, Shyamal Patel, Oura’s head of science, told The Verge that the algorithm isn’t 100 percent accurate, and as such false positive and negative readings are possible. The company has yet to disclose accuracy data for Symptom Radar.

This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/wearables/oura-is-rolling-out-its-sickness-detection-feature-to-ring-gen-3-and-ring-4-users-155820702.html?src=rss 

It’s Thursday, which means that Epic Games has a fresh pair of PC games on its storefront for folks to claim for free. One of this week’s options is a humdinger. Until 11AM on December 12, you can snap up Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga for exactly zero dollars.

This is easily the best Lego game I’ve played, and probably the best Star Wars title. You don’t have to start with The Phantom Menace if that name still causes you anguish 25 years later, though you’ll play through the stories of all nine core Star Wars films. The game has that trademark Lego brand of silly humor with clever (and often very funny) riffs on famous moments from the movies. As you might imagine, Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga is packed with Easter eggs. It looks terrific too. There are a lot of reasons why this was one of my favorite games of 2022.

Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga is not perfect, though. Reports that developers at TT Games were pushed to work long hours to finish the game cast a dark shadow over it. In addition, the collectathon aspects may start to feel like a slog if you plan to reach 100 percent completion. Still, there’s potentially dozens of hours of family fun here, and you’ll be able to hop in gratis.

There’s one other free title on the Epic Games Store this week in the form of Bus Simulator 21 Next Stop. I hope that’s also a fun game for people who check it out, but I’ll never know myself!

This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/gaming/pc/lego-star-wars-the-skywalker-saga-is-free-on-the-epic-games-store-160712375.html?src=rss 

We’ve got a little bit longer to wait until Secret Level, the gaming-inspired animated anthology series from the Love, Death and Robots team, debuts on Prime Video. But Amazon is ramping up to the launch by offering some solid freebies for Prime members on many of the games that inspired episodes in Secret Level. Roguelike masterpiece Spelunky and story-laden space adventure The Outer Worlds are must-haves if they aren’t already in your library. Here’s the full list of free titles:

Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition (GOG code)

Baldur’s Gate II: Enhanced Edition (GOG code)

Necromunda: Hired Gun (Epic Games Store)

Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition (GOG code)

The Outer Worlds (GOG code)

Space Hulk: Deathwing – Enhanced Edition (Amazon Games App)

Spelunky (GOG code)

Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine (Amazon Games App)

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War (Amazon Games App)

And if that wasn’t enough free stuff, a code for Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II in the Amazon Games App will also drop on December 12. Those Prime Gaming members using the Amazon Luna streaming service will also see the addition of Mega Man 11. 

The final facet of this announcement is some steep discounts on retail purchases of games through Amazon’s platform. Most notably in this batch is up to 65 percent off God of War: Ragnarok for the PlayStation 5 and up to 80 percent off the PC version of Ghost of Tsushima: Director’s Cut. These titles are all in addition to the previously announced free games lineup Prime Gaming members can add to their collections this month.

This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/gaming/amazon-is-giving-away-games-to-promote-its-secret-level-anthology-series-150033246.html?src=rss 

You know that feeling when the snow is falling outside but you’re inside curled up or cooking something warm as music plays around you? That movie moment is reason enough to invest in a good speaker but, by invest, I mean shop a great deal on one of our favorite Bluetooth speakers for 2024. Marshall’s Emberton II Portable Bluetooth Speaker is currently down to $100 from $170 — a 41 percent discount. 

Marshall’s Emberton II Speaker is one of our top picks thanks to its 360-degree sound that provides a good quality listening experience for any small gathering (or solo dance party). It offers 30 hours of battery, charges up in only three hours and is IP67 dust and water resistant so you don’t have to be too precious with it. 

In August, Marshall did release a new version of this speaker, aptly named the Emberton III. It has a few upgrades from its predecessor, including an extra two hours of battery life, a built-in microphone and taking only two hours to fully charge. It’s normally the same price as the second generation Emberton but, since it’s not on sale, we’d say the Emberton II is a much better buy. 

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This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/deals/one-of-our-favorite-bluetooth-speakers-is-41-percent-off-right-now-150156828.html?src=rss 

Telegram is taking a significant step to reduce child sexual abuse material (CSAM), partnering with the International Watch Foundation (IWF) four months after the former’s founder and CEO Pavel Durov was arrested. The French authorities issued 12 charges against Durov in August, including complicity in “distributing, offering or making available pornographic images of minors, in an organized group” and “possessing pornographic images of minors.” 

The UK-based IWF works with social media platforms, tech companies, governments and more to prevent the spread of CSAM. Telegram’s membership to the IWF grants it access to the organization’s tools that block links to CSAM content and “non-photographic depictions,” including AI-created images. It also provides Telegram with hashes of known CSAM content and any harmful content the organization detects. The IWF reports having found thousands of confirmed instances of CSAM on Telegram since 2022.

Telegram has previously refused to join any programs that could help limit CSAM. In a release, Telegram’s Head of Press and Media Relations Remi Vaughn claimed the platform “removes hundreds of thousands of child abuse materials each month” through reports and moderation through AI, hash-matching and more. Though Vaughn conceded IWF’s support will strengthen the company’s ability to delete CSAM before it reaches anyone.

Telegram has taken other steps since Durov’s arrest, announcing in September that it would hand over IP addresses and phone numbers in legal requests — something it fought in the past. Durov must remain in France for the foreseeable future.

This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/social-media/telegram-finally-takes-action-to-remove-csam-from-its-platform-134514444.html?src=rss