AI fitness coach senses the muscle mechanics as you exercise and prevents rookie injuries

Researchers at Drexel University and Michigan State University have built a prototype that addresses exactly that problem, in real time, using your phone camera, and there’s real potential for it to become a legitimate fitness app in future (via Tech Xplore).

Google’s new AI app wants to replace endless scrolling with stories about your own life

Dreambeans, a new experimental app from Google Labs, does the opposite. It gives you a small collection of AI-illustrated stories each morning and sends you off to live your actual life.

Amazon app now takes you shopping straight from the iPhone’s lock screen

The company has rolled out six new visual search features, one of them being the Amazon Lens widget for iPhone. It puts a camera shortcut directly on your iPhone’s lock screen, so you can point it at anything around you and the app finds it before you’ve unlocked the phone.