Pebble is one of the most respected and successful brands when it comes to smartwatches. Even if its devices are not as advanced and good-looking as Apple, Samsung or Motorola’s watches, Pebble watches are a huge attraction on the market. 

When it first came out on the market, the Pebble watch had a not so good-looking design and an open software platform, but now, this company has decided to start trying to appeal more to the masses, meaning that it changed to design and has updated its software. This is definitely a huge step forward, but today, Pebble has also introduced another feature, called Pebble Health. 

Pebble Health is a free health-tracking system. With this new feature, Pebble added sleep tracking and step counting to newer Pebble smartwatches, except Pebble Classic Steel and Pebble Classic. With Pebble Health, the company clearly wants to attract more clients and wants to offer the experience of fitness tracking. 

This new app will share data to Google Fit and Apple Health app, where owners will have the possibility to get a more granular view of their health data. However, Pebble is not the only company which has such kind of feature. The questions are: why should clients trust Pebble’s feature and why should they choose Pebble instead of many other options that are on the market?

Well, Pebble has declared that with the purpose to come up with the algorithms for activity tracking, it worked with Stanford University’s relatively new wearable health lab. Moreover, they have declared that the lab will publish the algorithm, so that scientists will have access to it for research purposes. This is a huge plus for Pebble, because many commercial wearable companies don’t share information about how they calculate user’s activity levels.

Working with a research lab will probably raise a lot of questions around the privacy of health data. But, Pebble has declared that Stanford’s lab won’t have access to user data, and just the algorithm will be public. To be added that Pebble Health app adjusts daily goals based on how active the user is.

Now, this is probably one of the most surprising news that have been released in the past few weeks. It seems that the German government has reached an agreement with Google, Facebook and Twitter, to block and delete hate speech from their platforms within 24 hours. 

This action has come after the three companies have been under increased pressure to curb racism online. It is well known the fact that Germany continues to have big problems with refugees and they are expecting to have approximately 1 million migrants from war-torn countries like Afghanistan and Syria. This critical situation has born a lot of hate from nationalist groups on social media platforms, so German officials have decided to stop the hateful speech.

“When the limits of free speech are trespassed, when it is about criminal expressions, sedition, incitement to carry out criminal offenses that threaten people, such content has to be deleted from the net,” declared German Justice Minister Heiko Maas. “And we agree that as a rule, this should be possible within 24 hours,” he continued. 

So, this means that criminal expressions, offences that threaten people or any kind of expression that had crossed the boundaries of free speech, will be immediately deleted from social medial platforms, like Facebook, Twitter and Google.

Facebook has agreed to work with the German government and they started to combat hate speech on the popular platform. “There’s no place for content such as hate speech, incitement or glorification of violence on Facebook. We urge people to use our reporting tools if they find content that they believe violates our standards so we can investigate and take swift action. We complete the review of the vast majority of reports within 24 hours,” a Facebook spokesperson declared. 

“We’re committed to working with Governments on this issue and work to review the majority of flagged content within 24 hours. YouTube’s policies have long prohibited hate speech and extremism, and we comply quickly with valid law enforcement requests,” a Google spokesperson stated. 

Without a doubt, this a good move from the German government, because this way they will stop racism and probably other violent behaviors. 

Now, for starters, we must mention that Kitchenaid Precision Press Coffee Maker is not actually a coffee maker machine. This new device is more like a French press coffee, which has been appreciated for several years. With a French press coffee, people have the possibility to prepare one of the most tasteful and delicious coffee cups. 

However, for a method like this, people can also buy a traditional French press, which is actually less expensive. The new Kitchenaid Precision Press Coffee Maker is available at the price of 150 dollars, being a little bit pricy. But, is this the only feature it has?

Well, the Kitchenaid Precision Press Coffee Maker also comes with a so called Precision Press, which is equipped with a timer that counts down the exact brew time.

This sounds pretty good actually. However, users must supply it with properly ground coffee beans and fill it with hot water. This means that this machine doesn’t have the ability to boil the water. In the end this is a French press, it doesn’t have some special features and it cannot be compared with an actual coffee machine. This will probably be the main reason who customers might opt for a cheap 20 dollars basic steel French press.

As for design, Kitchenaid Precision Press Coffee Maker looks pretty good. It looks like many other stainless-steel French press coffee makers, including Frieling or Bodum. However, it has an attractive design, being sculpted in a traditional jug shape and it was designed to preserve coffee heat longer than any other glass-walled French press coffee maker. Customers who will buy this device are probably familiar with a French press and how this device works. 

So, owners will now know how the new Kitchenaid Precision Press Coffee Maker works, but there are key parts of this machine that can’t tackle. For example, this French Press Coffee Maker doesn’t have a bean grinder, meaning that users will have to use their own or buy one from the store. Moreover, it doesn’t have the ability to heat water, so users will have to supply it with.

Keurig Kold is an interesting machine that has the ability to make home-carbonation drinks. Now, probably all customers will ask if it isn’t much easier to buy a can of soda instead of buying a machine that can prepare this soda. 

Not to mention that Keurig Kold costs approximately 370 dollars, which is a lot. According to its creators, this machine has been made in partnership between Coca-Cola and Keurig, a pod-coffee-brewing giant. Now, is this new machine able to revolutionize the way in which people enjoy soft drinks at home? This is a tricky question.

Who doesn’t want pods that will make cold Coke or other famous drinks in a minute? Not to mention that Pepsi also has a machine that is called SodaStream which can also make cold drinks. It appears that the battle between Coca-Cola and Pepsi has moved to another level.

However, despite its 370 dollars price, which seems to be expensive, this soda machine doesn’t sound bad at all, especially for soda drinkers. As for the design, Keurig Kold is a little bit bulky and very loud. Moreover, it takes approximately 90 seconds to make 8-ounce glass of soda. Another minus is that Kold-produced Coke doesn’t seems to taste the same as the original Coke, the bottled version. 

Why it doesn’t taste the same? It seems that Keurig’s carbonation technique doesn’t seem to be as strong as the original bottled version. To be added that a pack of four pods of sodas cost somewhere around 5 dollars. So, probably that a machine like this is more efficient if it makes coffee, instead of soda. However, the puck-shaped plastic container is similar with the coffee pod and it contains everything it needs to create a cold soda, users just need to add water in the container. So, once the container is filled with water, users just simply need to open the device, drop the pod and hit the button.

In approximately 90 seconds, users will have a nice and cold glass of soda. Probably, they need under 90 seconds to pull out a can of soda from the fridge that can also taste better. This choice will come from the customer: a pod of soda or a can of soda from the fridge. 

On the smartphone market, there is a fight that never seems to end. All these smartphones are running a particular operating system. Of course, there is a fight, too. However, this fight seems to be taken by Android and iOS, which are probably the best OS at the moment. 

These two operating systems are not alone, because there are other OS on the market, like Windows 10 or Firefox OS. These days, Mozilla has made an interesting announcement, declaring that they will stop selling its Firefox OS to carriers and even cease development of the operating system for smartphones. This is a surprising announcement, because Mozilla has declared that Firefox OS is one of its major projects. 

“The current Firefox OS team will stay intact and continue to work on the new experiments across connected devices,” has declared Ari Jaaksi, Mozilla senior vice president of connected devices. “Firefox OS proved the flexibility of the Web, scaling from low-end smartphones all the way up to HD TVs,” the statement added. “However, we weren’t able to offer the best user experience possible, and so we will stop offering Firefox OS smartphones through carrier channels,” he continued. 

This is a bad announcement, making developers realize how hard is to compete with giants like Android and Apple’s iPhone. Without a doubt that these two companies are dominating smartphone sales. This is the second announcement made by Mozilla this week, after the famous company declared that they will intend to shut down email client Thunderbird, a project that was not updated since 2012. Firefox OS was a huge opportunity for this company to find relevance in the mobile world, but it looks like they did not manage to find the right way to survive on the market. 

Firefox OS was first called Boot to Gecko in 2011, but the first version was released in 2013. This was a change for Mozilla to get Firefox in front of mobile phones, considering the fact that Google and Apple bundle their own web browser by default in the user’s mobile operating system. Unfortunately, there wasn’t so much interest from customers to buy their smartphones. However, probably Mozilla will have more luck improving the web experience for users that are already using other platforms.