About this episode
The episode discusses the reveal of the Google Fitbit Air and Samsung's claims about the Galaxy Watch's health monitoring capabilities.
Plus - Samsung says its Galaxy Watch can predict fainting with 'high accuracy' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Topics covered
- technology
- wearable devices
- health monitoring
- news
Keywords
- Google
- Fitbit Air
- Samsung
- Galaxy Watch
- health monitoring
- technology news
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Google, Samsung
Products: Fitbit Air, Galaxy Watch
More episodes of Engadget News + Next
- Instructure hackers claim they stole data from nearly 9,000 schools, Nintendo is raising Switch 2 prices as chip crisis bites, and Bumble replacing swiping · May 8, 2026 · 8 min
- Google Home gains more Gemini-powered camera features · May 7, 2026 · 6 min
- Samsung's Galaxy Watch can predict fainting with 'high accuracy', Snap's $400 million deal with Perplexity is dead, and Google bought a stake in the maker of Eve Online to train its AI models · May 7, 2026 · 7 min
- Google, Microsoft and xAI agree to provide US government with early AI model access. · May 6, 2026 · 6 min
- Anthropic will pay Google $200 billion for chips and cloud access, Meta may be using 'dark patterns' to steer people away from non-algorithmic feeds, and Pennsylvania is suing Character.AI over chatbots pretending to be licensed doctors · May 6, 2026 · 7 min
- Amazon opens up its logistics networks to any business · May 5, 2026 · 6 min