Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Tuesday, March 16th, 2021. I'm Brian McCullough today.

Google's second-gen nest hub gets sleep tracking thanks to the Soli chip. Intel's 11th Gen desktop chip

launches. She brings the hammer down on Chinese tech and the craziest cell phone

hack I've ever heard isn't a hack at all since it's in a nutso but so

unregulated gray area. Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.

Google today announced its second generation nest hub and the big new feature is sleep tracking. The price tag on the new nest hub is $100.

There's one of those new solely radar chips inside it so you can do things like

playing and pausing media by just tapping in the air and it's shipping March 30th.

With that solely chip you can also just wave your hand in the air if you want to snooze an alarm

that's going off which is useful because quoting 9 9 to 5 Google, the second-gen nest tub has sleep

sensing powered by the Soli technology that first debuted on the Pixel 4 and was later

used in the new Nest Thermostat for screen wake.

Google set out to make sleep tracking which is opt in more effortless and help people

make nightly improvements.

Sensors analyze your sleep based on movement and breathing

while also identifying disturbances, coughing,

snoring, light fluctuations, and temperature changes that make an impact.

Slowly is an ideal technology for this purpose because it precisely tracks movement at both macro,

limbs flailing, and micro, chest moving up and down as you breathe, levels.

Soli is not a camera that can see or identify you with the nest hub only generating movement graphs that along with audio data are processed locally and do not leave your device.

Only high-level sleep occurrences slash events such as number of coughs and

snore minutes are sent to Google and the night's results can be easily deleted in

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