The best budget Fitbit with a 10-day battery life is now super-cheap after this price cut at Amazon
THE SO WHAT
A budget Fitbit with 10-day battery life going cheaper on Amazon keeps wearables in the impulse-buy zone, which means more continuous data streams at the edge. If you're in health, insurance, or wellness, assume the addressable base for passive tracking is expanding and design programs around low-end devices, not just premium watches.
READ THE SOURCE
MORE FROM THE WIRE
Tech & Innovation‘Every other industry running mission critical infrastructure solved this problem years ago’: Why autonomous networking is in dire need of a digital twin
Networking is trying to catch up to manufacturing and energy by using digital twins as the safety harness for autonomy. If your business depends on high-availability networks, pressure your vendors on their twin strategy—resilience will increasingly hinge on how well they can simulate and rehearse failures before they hit production.
Tech & InnovationICYMI: here's the week's 7 biggest tech news stories from the Google Pixel 11 launch to Honor's revolutionary Robot Phone
Roundups like this are useful sentiment checks, not strategy inputs. Skim for where consumer attention is clustering, but don’t let weekly gadget cycles drive your roadmap.
Sam Altman says 4 years could be too long for college: ‘The way the world has evolved, college just shouldn’t be as long as it is’
When high-profile founders question four-year degrees, it reinforces the shift toward skills, portfolios, and velocity over credentials. For hiring managers, this is cover to widen your funnel—tighten your bar on demonstrated capability and loosen it on formal education.
Tech & InnovationFree Kindle books alert: Load your Kindle with 100+ free sci-fi and fantasy books this weekend
Zero-price digital content at this scale keeps resetting consumer expectations around ownership and value. If you monetize media or knowledge, you need a reason beyond raw access—community, curation, or tools around the content.