Tech in 2024: Wearable Devices Enter a New Era

WSJ Tech News Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

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🗓️ 28 December 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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This week we’re bringing you tech predictions for 2024. It’s been nearly 10 years since the Apple Watch came out, and the device can now track not just your heart rate and step count, but also your skin temperature for fertility and menstrual cycle predictions. Now, WSJ personal tech columnist Nicole Nguyen says the Apple Watch, and other wearables like Fitbit, might be entering a new era by tracking one metric that many people have been waiting for: blood pressure. She joins host Alex Ossola to talk about this and other predictions for 2024. Predictions for 2024 will publish on wsj.com later this week. In the meantime, check out last year's predictions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:27.0	Welcome to tech news briefing it Thursday, December 28th. I'm Alex Osala for the Wall Street Journal.
0:37.0	This week, we're looking at what 2024 has in store for tech and what some of the biggest trends from 2023 can tell us about the future.
0:46.0	Coming up on today's show, your Apple Watch or Fitbit has been tracking all kinds of useful things like your step count and your sleep. But in
0:54.4	2024 those devices could finally record a key health metric that lots of people
0:59.4	have been waiting for and maybe it's the year that those devices and others have even longer lifespans.
1:06.0	W.S.J. Personal tech columnist Nicole DeWinn has been following these topics and more,
1:11.0	and is here to give us her predictions for what 2024 could bring.
1:17.0	Everyone's talking about this and misinformation tied to the election.
1:24.0	How are tech companies gearing up for this?
1:26.0	Well, they're changing their policies and sizing down on their content moderation teams,
1:32.0	which is not necessarily in preparation for the election
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