It has been a great week for horology fans. WIRED senior writer Jeremy White has spent several days at the annual Watches and Wonders expo in Geneva, Switzerland, hunting down the most unique timepieces announced at the show. Sure, many of these watches have fantastical prices—like the $437,610 Patek Philippe Celestial Sunrise and Sunset—but that doesn’t mean you can’t ogle. It’s also where we learned of Bremont’s plans to send a watch to the moon later this year; the Supernova Chronograph will be attached to the chassis of the FLIP rover—the rover’s motion should help it keep time.
In more space news, Amazon announced that it is buying Globalstar, which manufactures and operates low Earth orbit satellites, for $11 billion. That might not sound like it will affect you, but Globalstar’s network powers the emergency satellite SOS features on your iPhone and Apple Watch Ultra 3. Amazon will continue that partnership to deliver those features, though the acquisition also means it now gets access to wireless spectrum to fill the orbit with more satellites to help close the cellular coverage gap, helping it get a little closer to Starlink’s dominance.
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Amazon is paying more than $11 billion for a small satellite company. |
Meta’s Muse Spark model offers to analyze users’ health data, including lab results. Beyond the obvious privacy risks, it’s not a capable stand-in for a real doctor. |
The premade Skills available through the Gemini sidebar in Chrome include ways to maximize protein in recipes or summarize YouTube videos. |
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It’s finally warming up on the East Coast, and thank God for that. This past winter was particularly brutal, so I intend on taking full advantage of these newly non-frigid conditions by being outdoors as much as humanly possible. If you feel the same way, and are lucky enough to have some private outdoor space, I imagine you’d like to have the option to seamlessly access the internet as you bask in the warmth. Whether you’re getting a group together to work remotely from your deck or bringing your laptop outside to stream a movie in your backyard, here’s how you can extend your Wi-Fi connection beyond the lowly indoors.—writes Elana Klein.
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Škoda's DuoBell is designed to avoid collisions between cyclists and pedestrians preoccupied by their podcasts. |
Unitree is bringing its R1 to international markets. It arrives with some aerobatic capabilities and an entry-level price, but the question of what you'd actually do with it remains open. |
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Bremont’s Supernova Chronograph will be attached to the chassis of Astrolab’s FLIP rover, which will land on the moon later this year. |
This luxury Swiss watch brand has gone where no one has gone before. Unfortunately, the price is out of this world too. |
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