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Bose’s SoundSport Free Enable Athletes To Go Wireless While Exercising

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Bose has released the truly wireless SoundSport Free headphones, enabling athletes to do their workouts with music and two earbuds without getting tangled up in wires. True wireless earbuds are not new in the industry. According to Brian Maguire, director of Bose on-the-go products, it’s the company’s development of a product that […]

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Fitness AR’s Digital 3D Map Helps Runners, Cyclists Visualize Routes

Imagine running alongside the cascading waterfalls and granite rocks of Yosemite Valley. Perhaps you want to visualize the route before you go, or relive it after the fact. A new augmented reality experience will recreate the route in a digital 3D map for you to explore. Putting Apple’s new augmented reality developers kit, ARKit, to […]

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Fitness Trackers Could Pose Threat To Users’ Personal Data

Fitness bands may be able to track heart rates and step counts pretty well, but a new study suggests they could improve at safeguarding users’ personal and biometric data. Researchers from the the University of Edinburgh found that vulnerabilities in devices that are used by consumers to track heart rate, steps, calories and sleep stages, […]

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