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The 8 coolest screen-free fitness trackers you can buy in 2026 — from the Garmin Cirqa to the Google Fitbit Air

Just as smartwatches — like phones — were starting to get dull, with incremental upgrades every year and people beginning to tire of wearing screens, along comes a plethora of high-profile category disrupters to help people track their fitness without getting notifications on their wrists.

These 'focus' wearables are becoming more popular by the week, and I'm seeing more and more screenless trackers in gyms, on the start lines of local races, and out and about in town. It's no longer unusual to see someone wearing an analog watch on one hand, and a fabric-wrapped fitness band on the other — or a discreet smart ring on the index finger.

Without further ado, check out my picks of the coolest screenless fitness trackers to buy right now, from the trending Garmin Cirqa and GoogleFitbit Air to little-known gems like the Amazfit Helio Strap and RingConn Gen 3 — then...

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Nebius is raising $4.5bn in convertible bonds to build AI data centres

Nebius Group said on Wednesday that it plans to raise $4.5 billion by selling convertible bonds. It will use the money to build data centres for artificial intelligence. The Amsterdam-based company set out the plan in a statement. The offering comes in two parts. Nebius is selling $2.75

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China lands a rocket booster on the ground for the first time

The Chinese startup LandSpace recovered the first stage of its Zhuque-3 rocket on Wednesday. It is one of only a handful of private companies to land an orbital-class booster. Reuters reported that the feat places LandSpace alongside SpaceX and Blue Origin, and narrows China’s gap with the US in

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A watchdog says Meta pays influencers to fight teen bans worldwide

Meta is running a global campaign to push back against laws that would ban teenagers from social media, according to a new investigation by the Tech Transparency Project. The effort relies on paid influencers and funded parent groups, the watchdog said. Meta developed the tactics in the United States, the

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OpenAI puts a 20% compute cost on its new AI safety monitoring

OpenAI has put figures and detail on the slowdown it signalled this week. It paused some frontier training for two weeks, it said. It is also running a new monitoring system for the riskiest work. That system adds about 20 percent to the compute cost of what it covers. The

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Nebius is raising $4.5bn in convertible bonds to build AI data centres

China lands a rocket booster on the ground for the first time

A watchdog says Meta pays influencers to fight teen bans worldwide

OpenAI puts a 20% compute cost on its new AI safety monitoring