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Google unveils Whoop-like screenless Fitbit Air

The device comes with health and fitness tracking like 24/7 heart rate, heart rhythm monitoring with Afib alerts, SpO2, resting heart rate, heart rate variability, sleep stages and duration, and more.

TechCrunch May 7, 2026 Aisha Malik
Technology May 7, 2026

Apple’s $599 MacBook Neo could be at risk from rising RAM prices

The MacBook Neo might lose its most appealing trait thanks to the ongoing RAM shortage. According to analyst Tim Culpan,...

Technology May 7, 2026

AlphaEvolve: Gemini-powered coding agent scaling impact across fields

Article URL: https://deepmind.google/blog/alphaevolve-impact/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=480502...

Technology May 7, 2026

Startup Battlefield 200 applications close May 27: A shot at VC access, global visibility, TechCrunch coverage, and $100K

Startup Battlefield 200 applications are open, but only for three more weeks. Apply by May 27 for your shot at VC acce...

Technology May 7, 2026

Samsung’s flagship laptop is a MacBook Pro clone gone horribly wrong

II know I'm not the only person who wants a MacBook Pro for Windows: a sleek, ultra powerful, super portable machine wit...

Technology May 7, 2026

Police arrest SMS blaster crew that sent malicious messages to thousands across Toronto

Toronto police said this is the "first known instance" of an SMS blaster being used in Canada.

Technology May 7, 2026

MPEG-2 Transport Stream Packaging for Media over QUIC Transport

Article URL: https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-gregoire-moq-msfts-00.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.co...

Technology May 7, 2026

Exhibit at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Get in front of 10,000 decision-makers before space runs out

If startup visibility, traction, and real deals matter, you should be on the TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 exhibit floor. Get ...

Technology May 7, 2026

India’s first space tech unicorn emerges as Skyroot gears up for orbital launch

Skyroot's valuation has more than doubled since 2023 as the Indian rocket startup prepares for the country's first priva...

Technology May 7, 2026

OpenClaw and Claude can put your AI-generated podcasts in Spotify

Save to Spotify is a new command-line tool designed specifically for AI agents like OpenClaw, Claude Code, or OpenAI Cod...

Technology May 7, 2026

The Self-Cancelling Subscription

Article URL: https://predr.ag/blog/the-self-cancelling-subscription/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id...

Technology May 7, 2026

The map that keeps Burning Man honest

Article URL: https://www.not-ship.com/burning-man-moop/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48049653 Poi...

Technology May 7, 2026

Google unveils screenless Fitbit Air and Google Health app to replace Fitbit

The $100 Fitbit Air is available for preorder today.

Technology May 7, 2026

Google Ditches the Screen With the New Fitbit Air (2026)

Powered by Gemini and designed around simplicity, the new Fitbit Air could finally give the screenless fitness tracker m...

Technology May 7, 2026

Google Is Rebranding the Fitbit App to ‘Google Health’

Google is sunsetting Google Fit by year’s end. While Fitbit remains very much alive, the rebranded Google Health app i...

Technology May 7, 2026

2 days left: Get 50% off a second pass to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

Two days left to save up to $410 on your pass, and get a second one at 50% off to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Offer ends Ma...

Technology May 7, 2026

Google’s taking a big swing at AI health with the Fitbit Air

It's a Whoop dupe. That was my first thought when I saw the new $99 Google Fitbit Air. You can hardly blame me. The band...

Technology May 7, 2026

Ploopy’s new mouse makes the ThinkPad’s iconic TrackPoint portable

Ploopy has announced another open source mouse alternative that skips touchpads and trackballs. While the new Ploopy Bea...

Technology May 7, 2026

RIP social media. What comes next is messy.

As social media splinters, how can we keep the new online spaces from devolving into toxic pits...

Technology May 7, 2026

China’s Moonshot AI raises $2B at $20B valuation as demand for open-source AI skyrockets

Moonshot's annualized recurring revenue topped $200 million in April, driven by rapid growth in paid subscriptions and A...

Technology May 7, 2026

Automating Hermitage to see how transactions differ in MySQL and MariaDB

Submitting again after https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47990047 now that the paywall has expired. Comments URL: h...

Technology May 7, 2026

Child marriages plunged when girls stayed in school in Nigeria

Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00796-2 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4804...

Technology May 7, 2026

Cloudflare responded to the "Copy Fail" Linux vulnerability

Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/copy-fail-linux-vulnerability-mitigation/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinat...

Technology May 7, 2026

Inside Dreame’s wild launch event — packed with products no one can buy

Hundreds of influencers, media folks, and a few C-list celebs (sorry, Woz) filled the cavernous halls of the San Francis...

Technology May 7, 2026

Elon Musk tried to hire OpenAI founders to start AI unit inside Tesla

Musk was “prepared to do the for-profit, provided he would get control.” ...

Technology May 7, 2026

Spotify wants to become the home for AI-generated personal audio

Users will be able to create a podcast from Codex or Claude Code and import it to Spotify

Technology May 7, 2026

Spotify’s AI DJ now supports French, German, Italian and Brazilian Portuguese

Spotify's AI DJ feature now supports French, German, Italian, and Brazilian Portuguese.

Technology May 7, 2026

Sleep Number ComfortNext Lux Smart Bed: Redefining Support

Sleep Number’s new model leans plush, but its smart support might convert even die-hard firmness fans.

Technology May 7, 2026

GovernGPT (YC W24) Is Hiring Engineers to Build Thinking Systems in Montreal

Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/governgpt/jobs/hRyltS0-backend-engineer-thinking-systems Comments UR...

Technology May 7, 2026

Is your Porsche Taycan too slow at the Nürbugring? You need this Manthey Kit.

Nordschleife-specialist Manthey has developed an upgrade package for the Porsche EV. ...