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Apple brings heart rate monitoring to Powerbeats Pro 2


Apple Tuesday announced the long-awaited debut of Powerbeats Pro 2. The new headphones arrive nearly six years after the original Powerbeats hit the

The earbuds also mark a major next step in the company’s bid to expand its health care features, with the addition of built-in heart rate monitoring. The arrival of heart rate monitoring on the Beats line could herald the feature’s addition to upcoming AirPods updates — though doing so would require a major hardware refresh. Apple just missed the Super Bowl with its announcement, but that’s not stopping the company from spending a load on ads, with endorsements from star athletes, including LeBron James, Lionel Messi, and Shohei Ohtani.

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