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Google’s Pixel Watch Can Now Estimate Your Blood Pressure
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Wearables, Google, Software,
Google's Health Guardian tools start rolling out to the Google Health app this week, which means your Pixel Watch is about to start estimating your blood pressure. It reads your pulse and your motion all month, with no cuff and no calibration, and then tells you whether your numbers have been drifting higher. The first reports land in early October.
That word "estimating" is carrying a lot of weight. Blood pressure trends, insulin resistance trends and sleep breathing quality are all free on the Pixel Watch 3, 4 and 5. Google's own fine print calls all three general wellness features, says they cannot diagnose anything, and says they are not a replacement for the cuff in your bathroom drawer.
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YouTube Studio Will Soon Test Three Cuts of Your Video to Find the Best Hook
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Google, Software,
Every creator has an intro they aren't sure about. You cut the cold open, put it back, trim four seconds, and publish whichever version was on screen when you ran out of patience. YouTube Studio is about to let your audience make that call.
The biggest Studio news from Made on YouTube today is video A/B testing, which lets you run up to three cuts of the same video to see which hook performs best. YouTube says it's coming soon. It arrives with a batch of AI additions to Studio: feedback on early drafts, thumbnails generated to match your channel, and thumbnails that change depending on who's looking.
Meta Muse Can Now Run Your Mac and Shop at Walmart, and Meta Takes a Cut of What It Buys
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Software, Artificial Intelligence,
Mark Zuckerberg opened tonight's Meta Connect keynote with software you can't wear. Before any glasses or headsets, he and Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang spent the first stretch of the show on Muse, the personal AI agent Meta launched on September 8. Muse can now operate any app on your Mac, it works with Box and GitHub, it can shop at Walmart, Best Buy, Sephora and a long list of other stores, it's getting its own email address, and you can rename it and change how it looks and sounds.
Zuckerberg also explained how Meta gets paid. Muse is free, with a large allowance of tokens, and over time Meta expects to make money by taking a small fee on the transactions Muse handles. Meta makes money on Muse when Muse spends your money.
Apple Intelligence Now Wants 14GB Free, and 256GB iPhone Owners Pay for It
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, Software, Artificial Intelligence,
Before you update to iOS 27 and switch on the new Siri, check your free space. Apple now asks for up to 14GB of it on its newest high-end iPhones. The old number was 8GB.
Per Apple's support document, the 14GB tier covers iPhone 17 Pro, iPhone 17 Pro Max and iPhone Air. Every other Apple Intelligence phone, from the iPhone 15 Pro up through the standard iPhone 17, still needs up to 8GB, and Apple Watch needs up to 1.5GB. iPhone Air starts at 256GB and so does iPhone 18 Pro, so the bigger bill lands on the people who already paid the most.
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Google’s CC Is a Family AI With Its Own Google Account. Six People Choose What It Sees.
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Google, Software, Artificial Intelligence,
There is a new Google account in some households this week, and it does not belong to anyone who lives there. Google Labs has relaunched CC as an AI agent for families and groups, and it runs on its own Google account. Up to six people connect to that account and decide, one at a time, what it gets to see.
Google says the separate account gives CC "a distinct identity and clear permissions model," which is a polite way of saying the company knows a shared agent with a line into six inboxes is a harder sell than a personal one. What you get in return is one place where the household calendar, the task list and the school emails all land. Each morning CC sends a brief it calls "Your Day Ahead": who needs to be where, what needs to be done.
Meta’s Muse AI Agent Will Book the Flight and Haggle the Bill (Invite Codes!)
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Internet, Software, Artificial Intelligence,
You know the part of a chatbot conversation where it hands you a tidy plan and then you go do all the work yourself? Meta's new Muse is built to skip that part. It's a personal AI agent, a separate product from the Meta AI app, and its pitch is that it goes and does the thing: sends the email, books the trip, fills out the form, negotiates the bill.
It launched September 8 in the US on iOS, Android. You can sign up at muse.ai/join or in the app. You need a Meta account, not a Facebook or Instagram login, and on the web you sign in with your phone number.
Once you're in, open Settings and enter CC2P24 as your invite code. Do that within 48 hours of creating the account, and you get 1 billion free tokens.
Safari 27 Lets an AI Agent Drive Your Browser. Apple Built the Hook Itself.
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, Software, Artificial Intelligence,
Apple doesn't usually hand out keys to Safari. So it's strange to open the Safari 27 release notes and find instructions for letting Claude Code or Codex open tabs, click buttons, run JavaScript and read the console in your actual browser window. Two checkboxes and one terminal command, and your coding agent is driving.
The feature is the Safari MCP server, and it shipped with Safari 27.0 on September 17. It's the most interesting thing in a release that is otherwise a very large pile of bug fixes, and most of the coverage has filed it somewhere below the new <select> styling.</select>
Meta’s Muse Wants Your Inbox, Your Calendar, and a Card on File
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Software, Artificial Intelligence,
To use Meta's new AI agent the way Meta wants you to use it, you have to hand over your inbox, your calendar, your smart home accounts, and a working payment card. Muse, which started rolling out in the US this week, is built to go do things rather than answer questions, and doing things requires the keys.
So it opens a browser and fills in forms. It sends email on your behalf, books travel and negotiates your bills, and it keeps working after you close the app, remembering your preferences and volunteering suggestions you never asked for. Meta's own examples run from turning saved Instagram recipe reels into a grocery list to organizing a dinner, down to tracking who at the table can't eat what. It's live in the US on iOS, Android and muse.ai, with the AI glasses "coming soon."
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Audacity 4.0 Looks Like a Different App, and Edits Like One Too
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Music, Software,
If you have ever cut a podcast in Audacity, you know the routine. You get a clean take, you go to slide one clip a half second to the left, and the app makes you work for it. Audacity 4.0 shipped on September 3, and it is the first version in years that seems interested in making that part easier.
This is the largest update since version 3.0 in 2021, and it changes both how Audacity looks and what it can do. It is still free, still open source, still maintained by Muse Group.
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Tesla’s FSD Can Now Take the Wheel While You’re the One Driving
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Software, Transportation, Artificial Intelligence,
You're driving your Tesla. Yourself, hands on the wheel, Full Self-Driving switched off. A car ahead stops short, and the wheel turns without you.
That is what Tesla added in FSD (Supervised) v14.3.9, detailed in release notes that went out Friday afternoon. Tesla's wording: "FSD Supervised can now activate on your behalf when an imminent collision is detected and Automatic Emergency Braking (AEB) may not be enough." It can also switch itself on, Tesla says, if the car decides you're heavily distracted or that you disengaged FSD by accident. The feature is called Automatic Collision Evasion, and as of Friday it was "starting to roll out shortly."
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