Trends with Benefits: Would you pay for YouTube? Plus the best shows for binging

By DT Staff Published March 15, 2016

With Game of Thrones season five debuting this weekend, we ask the panel what the best HBO shows of all time are, which are best to binge on, and how to avoid seeing dreaded spoilers in your social media feeds.

Google doesn’t own everything, yet. Reports of the Big G’s interest in purchasing Twitter may be slightly more than rumor, but Googilifying Twitter may be be a good thing.

YouTube is one step closer to launching it’s ad-free subscription service. Could it ever compete with Netflix and Amazon Prime, and would you pay hard-earned cash for YouTube?

Wearables can look through your skin and see your blood. Does that sound creepy? Case in point: BSXinsight. It analyzes muscle performance and quantifies how close you are to running at full throttle.

Today’s panel includes Pete Jacobs, Kathryn Peck, Drew Prindle, and host Greg Nibler.

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Samsung wants its upcoming Galaxy Watch to be your AI health companion

Ahead of its July 22 Unpacked event, Samsung has teased AI-driven health tracking and upgraded internals for its upcoming smartwatches.

A person wearing the Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra showing the Ultra Analogue watch face.

Samsung's July 22 Galaxy Unpacked event won't be all about new foldables. The company has also started teasing its next-gen smartwatches, and its pitch leans heavily on AI. In a newsroom post published ahead of the event, Samsung promises "a whole new level of effortless wellness," describing the upcoming watches as an "AI-powered health companion."

From tracking to interpreting

Wearables

You can paint this wearable on your skin like a tattoo to monitor your heart and brain activity

This tattoo makes you look cooler - and it could save your life too

Wearable health trackers have become smaller, smarter and more capable over the years, but they've also remained surprisingly… boring. Whether it's a smartwatch, a chest strap or a sticky ECG patch, most health sensors still rely on bulky hardware that can peel off, irritate the skin or become less accurate once you start sweating. Additionally, there is a shift of technology from plastic wearables/trackers to clothes, which seemingly do the same thing as well. But that is not the story today.

Researchers at Penn State think they've found a far more elegant solution. Instead of sticking another sensor onto your skin, why not simply paint one?

Wearables

Pebble is finally catching up on Time 2 orders, and I appreciate the transparency

Here's exactly when your Pebble Time 2 ships, plus what Pebble is doing for the small percentage of watches arriving with hardware problems.

If you've been refreshing your order tracking page for months, Pebble just gave you an actual date to mark on your calendar. The company's July mega-update reveals exactly when the remaining Pebble Time 2 pre-orders will finally ship.

Beyond shipping updates, the July report also offers a clear look at how the company is handling its return to the smartwatch market.