Instead of simply giving you results based on actors or directors, you can now ask more in-depth queries, such as for summaries of seasons, or for popular titles you might not know the name of. For example, you might ask “What’s that hospital drama everyone has been talking about” to get The Pitt. Google claims you can even use it to find compromise between family members who prefer different genres of movies, like “Find me something to watch with my wife. I like dramas, but she likes lighthearted comedies.”
In addition to searching for titles to watch, you can of course ask any query you might want an answer to from Google’s Gemini AI—be that how to make a model volcano or the first steps to take in learning the guitar. For now Gemini is only available on the TCL QM9K Series, but it will be available on the Google TV Streamer, Hisense models, and other devices by the end of 2025. —Parker Hall
Withings Now Offers Advanced Women’s Cycle Tracking, Thanks to Clue
Women’s health continues to be a focus for fitness trackers. Earlier this month, the smart ring manufacturer Ultrahuman partnered with Clue, the popular women’s menstrual cycle app. Now Withings is following suit, announcing its Clue partnership earlier this week alongside the updated ScanWatch 2. The new ScanWatch 2 has an updated operating system that Withings calls HealthSense 4, which has AI-powered algorithms to predict health events—like, oh, when your period is coming. It also has what Withings calls an advanced heat-flux sensor, which reportedly predicts core body temperature more accurately than the skin temperature surface readings that other trackers use.
To support period and fertility tracking through perimenopause, the ScanWatch 2 will combine continuously tracked data—like sleep, stress, activity, energy levels, and temperature fluctuations—with data from the Clue Plus paid subscription.
With women’s health research going underfunded and under-researched for so long, it’s no surprise that private companies are now rushing to fill the gap. Right now, Withings is offering the ScanWatch 2 and Clue Plus as a bundle, discounting the rate to $380 for both the ScanWatch and a year subscription to Clue Plus on Withings.com. —Adrienne So
GoPro Unveils Two Cameras and a Gimbal
The allure of a lucrative space connection to any watch brand is well documented. Omega dines out on its NASA connections continuously with its Speedmaster Moonwatch Professional—the legendary timepiece of Apollo lunar missions. Seiko’s spacefaring Pogue, worn by astronaut William R. Pogue during the Skylab 4 mission in 1973, gives that brand extraterrestrial credentials. And US astronaut Dave Scott wore a Bulova chronograph during the Apollo 15 mission in 1971.
Now, after previously equipping Inspiration4 and Polaris Dawn flight crews with its watches, IWC wants a bigger slice of space action. To do this, it is joining forces with Vast, the private company aiming to launch a commercial space station, Haven-2, into low Earth orbit by 2028, which would allow astronauts to stay in space after the decommissioning of the International Space Station in 2030.