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The Apple Watch has been our longstanding Editors' Choice for its excellent performance, unparalleled app selection, and ample health and fitness tracking features. With the Series 6 (starting at $399), Apple builds upon its flagship smartwatch with the addition of a blood oxygen saturation sensor that calculates your SpO2 level on demand and captures periodic background measurements when you're sleeping and inactive.  Beyond this, Apple's changes include a faster processor, an always-on altimeter that allows you to see your elevation in real time, and a bump in screen brightness when your wrist is down. These improvements, plus many new additions in watchOS 7, including a 20-second handwashing timer and sleep-tracking capabilities, make the Apple Watch Series 6 the company's best smartwatch yet Pricing Apple introduced two new smartwatches this year—the flagship Series 6 and therefore the cheaper Watch SE. The Series 6 starts at $399 for the GPS-only model and $100 mor...

It's Console Wars D-Day, ladies and gentlemen. We've got both the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series here in the studio. We've got all the launch games you care about, and we are running HDMI 2.0 into an 88-inch OLED TV. It's time to put these consoles side by side and see how they perform mano a mano. Well, they're not human, but you get it.  Origin PC desktops can now be customized with Nvidia GeForce RTX 30 series graphics cards. If you're in the market for a new PC powered by Nvidia's latest graphics cards and backed by a 24/7 support team, check out Origin PC systems at the link below. (electronic dance music) We've already heard a ton about the super-fast loading speeds on both next-gen consoles, thanks to their SSDs.  The Xbox Series X's SSD has a raw throughput of 2.4 gigabytes per second, while the PlayStation 5 more than doubles that to 5.5 gigabyte per second raw. So you might expect the PS5 to beat the Xbox in every test by a wide margin, righ...