I used the public preview of Fitbit's new AI Health Coach and became both faster and noticeably weirder. Someone needs to say it. Someone has to speak up in defense of being mid. Most of us are, as that is the definition of being mid. I work out every day, but I have a full-time job, two kids, a dog, and a spouse.

This has been a pretty great year for fitness trackers. If you want to be fit for the holiday season, you can take your pick. All products featured on WIRED are independently selected by our editors. However, we may receive compensation from retailers and/or from purchases of products through these links. The wellness industry is booming.

As Apple did several years ago, Google has caught on that running is one of the most accessible and nerdiest sports. Assuming you don't have mobility issues, all you need is a good pair of running shoes and a pair of shorts. It's easy to see improvement quickly, especially if you're just getting started. Among the new touted features for the Pixel Watch 3 (8/10, WIRED Recommends) is holistic running guidance, under an umbrella Google calls Plan, Run, Reflect, found in the Fitbit app. You can build custom runs on the app on your Pixel phone or watch; get real-time interval guidance as you're running; look up your stats and advanced running analysis on a specialized running dashboard; and get daily AI-powered run recommendations.

Like most other corners of the tech world, Google sees AI powering the next innovations in health technology. The company's annual The Check Up event expanded on its plans to add a personal health chatbot to the Fitbit app, expand Google Lens for better skin condition searches and use a version of its Gemini chatbot in the medical field. One of the more intriguing of Google's announcements on Tuesday was more detail about an experimental AI feature for Fitbit users, briefly teased last year. Fitbit Labs will let owners draw correlations and "connect the dots" from health data tracked using their wearable devices. A chatbot in the mobile app will let you ask questions in natural language and create personalized charts to learn about your health.

Walmart must be feeling nostalgic for the days when zombie-apocalypse-level hordes would await the opening of the doors on Black Friday. So fill up your digital shopping cart with these Walmart Black Friday deals an entire week early. Maybe it should be called Extra Early Black Friday. More deals are constantly being added, but even this first batch has some of our favorite gear on sale from Walmart. Also, be sure to check out our main early Black Friday Deals post.

At the'Made by Google Event' in New York, Google teased a new "generative AI" feature that will be built into the Fitbit app sometime next year as part of the Fibit Labs program. The app, which will pair with new wearables like the Google Pixel 2 Watch and the Fitbit Charge 6, will use artificial intelligence to analyze trends in a wearer's fitness capabilities and be able to provide insights about overall performance. The app will feature a chatbot that can carry a conversation to help you understand how you did during a tracked run, for example, while providing debriefed stats on the activity, like overall pace and elevation gain. The AI tool will take it a step further and be able to explain why you performed the way you did by drawing on affiliated health data, like sleep hygiene, recovery history and other workouts. If you felt that a workout was extra difficult, the app will be able to look for related info to explain why you might be struggling.

A clinical trial is a study that evaluates new biomedical interventions. To design new trials, researchers draw inspiration from those current and completed. In 2022, there were on average more than 100 clinical trials submitted to ClinicalTrials.gov every day, with each trial having a mean of approximately 1500 words [1]. This makes it nearly impossible to keep up to date. To mitigate this issue, we have created a batch clinical trial summarizer called CliniDigest using GPT-3.5. CliniDigest is, to our knowledge, the first tool able to provide real-time, truthful, and comprehensive summaries of clinical trials. CliniDigest can reduce up to 85 clinical trial descriptions (approximately 10,500 words) into a concise 200-word summary with references and limited hallucinations. We have tested CliniDigest on its ability to summarize 457 trials divided across 27 medical subdomains. For each field, CliniDigest generates summaries of $\mu=153,\ \sigma=69 $ words, each of which utilizes $\mu=54\%,\ \sigma=30\% $ of the sources. A more comprehensive evaluation is planned and outlined in this paper.

Cyber Monday is now in full swing. If you haven't already done your shopping, now's the time--today's the last day of this month's hot deals. Fortunately for latecomers, many of the best-known tech devices have kept their exciting discounts. TVs, laptops, tablets, and Apple gear are just the tip of the iceberg. Best Buy covers it all, and we've picked through the sales to find the best bargains.

Black Friday deals have already begun at Best Buy. These are Best Buy's best bargains we've found across multiple categories: TVs, Apple gear, earbuds, headphones, fitness trackers, gaming gear, laptops and other PC components.

Imagine, for a moment, the near future Amazon dreams of. Every morning, you are gently awakened by the Amazon Halo Rise. From its perch on your nightstand, the round device has spent the night monitoring the movements of your body, the light in your room, and the space's temperature and humidity. At the optimal moment in your sleep cycle, as calculated by a proprietary algorithm, the device's light gradually brightens to mimic the natural warm hue of sunrise. Your Amazon Echo, plugged in somewhere nearby, automatically starts playing your favorite music as part of your wake-up routine.