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Oura has acquired metabolic health startup Veri

According to a recent FCC filing, the Oura Ring 4 is likely to launch any day now. In the meantime, however, the health hardware maker has another key bit of news to share. Oura announced Wednesday that it has acquired Veri, the Helsinki-based startup behind the metabolic health product of …

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Consumer prices rise at slowest pace since early 2021

A closely watched report on US inflation showed consumer prices rose in August at the slowest pace in three years on an annual basis, according to the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics released Wednesday morning. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) increased 2.5% over the prior year in …

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The Cost of Lightning | WIRED

It was the terrible prospect of lightning one day striking the historic windmill that troubled Andrew Farrell. A bolt five times hotter than the surface of the sun instantly turning moisture in one of the mill’s timbers to steam, exploding it. What if a raging fire then engulfed the 160-year-old …

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