On the app's home page (above), Google has replaced the single activity dial graph with individual cards and dials for each goal, showing what you've done and how days you have left to meet it. Scrolling down will reveal a chart of your weight, recent workouts (complete with a map), and more (below). Hitting the floating action " " button lets you set new goals, log your weight, add an activity and more. As for the new goals, you can now get a lot more specific than before. It has more activities and more specific metrics, like steps, duration or times per week, day or month.

The tsunami of innovation and waves of disruption are not slowing down,

Dublin, CA – On June 10, 2016, daVigor, Inc. launched an Indiegogo campaign for RelaxingPal, a game changing, intelligent eye-mask for sleep and relaxation. The company, daVigor, has been started by Krishna Yeddanapudi, an entrepreneur from Silicon Valley, California. Krishna has also assembled a highly competent team to develop RelaxingPal. Prior to daVigor, Inc., Krishna was the CTO (Chief Technology Officer) and main founder of Robin Systems. He established Robin's product, for the first three years, from scratch. Now, the RelaxingPal team is looking to raise money through Indiegogo backers and fans.

Kasisto, a spinoff of Siri-maker SRI International, added two bots to the personal finance bot space today with the introduction of MyKAI and KAI Banking. The two bots are available for Facebook Messenger, Slack, and via SMS -- MyKAI for consumer finance and KAI Banking to help banks interact with their customers on these platforms. Kasisto's two bots join Abe, Penny, and Finn in the personal finance bot market and represent a bet that people are interested in banking inside a messaging app rather than in a standalone online banking app. Kasisto's new bots can answer a lot of people's questions about their personal finances, along with other things like, "Will robots take my job?" The prospect of automation raises questions about labor.

This is part 2 of a 3 part series providing a gentle introduction to writing Apache Spark applications on Databricks. This post focuses on the tools and features that are helpful for data scientists to solve business problems instead of managing infrastructure. The big challenge for data scientists is to take a model from the prototyping all the way into production. This process is often littered with a variety of different environments, samples of data that do not reflect production data quality, and a litany of infrastructure challenges. These problems become even worse when multiple teams are restricted to sharing one cluster for all of their work.

Fahad Aziz is the Co-founder of Caremerge, an "award-winning technology company revolutionizing communication and coordination of care for seniors." As an industry leader in the tech space, Aziz has his finger on the pulse of disruptive healthcare tech. He says a few technologies are poised to seriously upend'business as usual' in healthcare in the near future, and they are not necessarily what you'd expect. In 2012, Vinod Khosla predicted that in time, "technology will replace 80% of what doctors do." He is spot on, according to Aziz.

An Osaka-based startup founded by health care product group Fujimoto Holding Co. and toymaker Wiz Co. has released an upgraded version of a stuffed robot doll designed to be a conversation partner for elderly people. The new Unazuki Kabochan, released June 17, has been programmed with a greater variety of words and phrases, totaling around 450, allowing a greater scope of response to the user's words and actions, according to PIP & WiZ Co. The previous model could handle some 400 words and phrases, but sometimes failed to reply appropriately according to context. Selling for a suggested retail price of 27,000 at department stores and shops handling nursing care devices, the new Unazuki Kabochan can also sing 13 songs, eight more than the older unit, and the need to reset after it is switched off has been eliminated, the company said. The 28-cm, 680-gram doll is made to resemble a 3-year-old boy.

Genpact (NYSE: G), a global leader in digitally-powered business process management and services, announces that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire PNMsoft, a Gartner Magic Quadrant-rated dynamic workflow, case management and work optimization solutions provider based around Tel Aviv, Israel. PNMsoft complements and easily integrates pre-existing systems of records that typically host manual process work, and will act as a core component in Genpact's digital portfolio whose roadmap comprises close to 100 digital solution components ("digital assets"). Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Closing is subject to satisfaction of certain customary conditions and expected in the third quarter. The transaction is not expected to be material to current year financial performance.

Whether you're trying to lose weight, eat healthier, or track your diet for other reasons, there's no truly easy and automatic way to log your food intake. Today's best options are apps that require you to pick the food items you're consuming or manually enter that information. But what if the app knew, without your help, that you'd just spent a half hour crunching on cookies? That's the idea behind the "Diet Eyeglasses" revealed earlier this month at the IEEE Body Sensor Networks conference in San Francisco. The smart glasses have built-in sensors that detect muscle activity related to chewing, which could enable the continuous and unobtrusive monitoring of every morsel users chow down on.

When American novelist David Foster Wallace delivered the commencement address at Kenyon College in 2005, he urged the graduating class to "exercise some control over how and what you think." If you don't at least try to regulate your thoughts and behaviors, Wallace cautioned, you will go through life "dead, unconscious, a slave to your head." Wallace himself long suffered with unwanted negative thoughts and crippling self-doubt--and took his own life three years after that speech. But can our mind become a "terrible master," as Wallace described? Kessler, the former commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, has considered that question for the past two decades, studying how substances such as food, alcohol and tobacco can hijack our brain chemistry and compel us to act against our own best intentions--bingeing on brownies, booze or cigarettes.