Welcome to the tech meme ride home for Thursday August 27th, 2020.

I'm Brian McCullough today.

Amazon announces HALO.

A weirdly ambitious fitness wearable.

Facebook warns of an ad apocalypse.

Tik-Toc CEO abruptly resigns for reasons.

The remarkable 2-e-ink tablet,

Intel is causing the US to fall behind in supercomputing and the first big

podcaster to sign exclusively with Spotify is leaving the platform and burning his bridges.

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

I guess everybody sees dollar signs in digital health and fitness these days, even Amazon, who

today unveiled HALO, a $99.99 fitness band with an

app to track everything from emotional tone to sleep quality, activity, even creating 3D scans for body fat.

Indeed, you have to say in a way this is the most ambitious health

wearable we've seen yet, Quoting the Virge.

Unlike the Apple watch or even most basic Fitbits, the Amazon

Halo Band doesn't have a screen.

The app that goes along with it comes with the usual set of fitness tracking features

along with two innovative and potentially troubling ideas.

Using your camera to create 3D scans for body fat and listening to the emotion in your voice.

The HALO Band will cost $99.99 and the service, which is required

for HALO's more advanced features, costs $3.99 per month. Amazon is launching it as an

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