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Local fitness landscape of the green fluorescent protein
Fitness landscapes depict how genotypes manifest at the phenotypic level and form the basis of our understanding of many areas of biology, yet their properties remain elusive. Previous studies have analysed specific genes, often using their function as a proxy for fitness, experimentally assessing the effect on function of single mutations and their combinations in a...
Amazon’s Alexa adds Fitbit integration to help users track fitness
Amazon’s smart personal assistant wants you to be fit. Or, at least, it can help you get there.
Alexa, the cloud-powered virtual assistant that mainly lives inside the Echo and Fire TV, can now integrate with...
Jaybird Reign fitness tracker review: Keeping you honest with heart rate variability
Video shot/edited by Jennifer Hahn. (video link)
A lot of popular fitness trackers aren't very active at all. They sit on your wrist counting each step you take, how long you sleep, and maybe a few workouts here and there. Jaybird's $ 150 Reign tracker is trying to do something a bit different. Instead of focusing on steps, Reign gets to know your body...
Withings expands fitness family with button-sized, e-ink Go tracker
Withings is known for its elegant line of products as well as their typically high price tags. In an effort to appeal to the masses, the company debuted the baby of its fitness tracker family at CES 2016: the Withings Go. The coin-sized device promises to automatically track your activity and sleep, show your progress on its e-ink...
The best (and worst) smartwatches, fitness bands, and wearables of 2015
Enlarge / The Fossil Q smartwatch. (credit: Valentina Palladino)
It has been a big year for wearables. The Apple Watch was born (finally), Google Glass died (finally), and bands that track everything from steps to mood changes have grown up and become not terrible (finally!). While wrist-bound devices have cemented themselves as the face of...
How Microsoft’s fitness tracker, cloud technology was used at the Squash World Championships
Sports and Microsoft’s technology met this weekend at the 2015 Men’s World Squash Championship in Bellevue, Wash. The world’s top 50 male squash players spent the past week competing against each other at the annual tournament, which was held in the U.S. for the first time ever and just a few minutes away from Microsoft’s headquarters in Redmond. Microsoft implemented some...
Volt Athletics raises another $1M to continue growing online fitness training platform
Volt Athletics is raising more money to fuel growth of its online fitness training platform. The Seattle-based startup has reeled in another $ 1 million from unnamed angel investors to push total funding to $ 2 million for the two-year-old company. The fresh cash will be used to develop Volt’s platform, which offers a customizable online fitness training platform...