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76.8% of Dojo Meditation Sessions Lowered Heart Rate in Early Wearable Analysis

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3 months ago

June 24, 2026

SAN FRANCISCO, June 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Dojo, the AI-native consciousness training platform behind a guided meditation and mindfulness app focused on measurable personalization, today released early findings from “The State of Meditation 2026: What Actually Calms the Human Body,” an aggregate analysis of first-party meditation session data with second-by-second heart-rate measurement that was cleaned into research-ready session metrics.

Across hundreds of qualified meditation sessions, heart rate decreased in 76.8% of sessions. The average heart-rate drop was 6.5 beats per minute, the median heart-rate drop was 5.11 beats per minute, and the median time to first heart-rate decrease was 1.0 minute. On average, sessions reached their minimum heart rate after 7.63 minutes. Among sessions with resting-heart-rate data, 27.0% went below the user’s recorded resting heart rate during meditation.

Dojo created the analysis to better understand how meditation affects the body during real practice sessions. The company analyzed completed meditation sessions with sufficient per-minute heart-rate coverage from H1 2026, using anonymized aggregate data from its research warehouse. Sessions without enough usable physiological data were excluded from the research cohort.

“Meditation should be measurable,” said Asaf Shamir, Founder and CEO of Dojo. “People should be able to see when their body is responding, not just guess whether a practice worked. Heart rate is not the whole story, but it gives us a real physiological signal that can help make meditation more concrete.”

Meditation is often described through subjective experience: calmer, clearer, less reactive, or more grounded. Dojo’s research adds a physiological layer by looking at how the body changes second by second during actual sessions. In the analyzed dataset, the average session duration was 12.36 minutes, the median first heart-rate decrease occurred after 1.0 minute, and the average session reached its minimum heart rate after 7.63 minutes.

Dojo is built for people who want more than static audio libraries. The company creates personalized meditation sessions that adapt based on user goals, preferences, and physiological signals such as heart rate. The product is designed to help users discover which meditation exercises and techniques, from focus and visualization to breath work, body scans, and other practice structures, appear to shift their state.

“People should not have to guess what works for them,” said Shamir. “The future of AI meditation is not just generating more audio. It is building a feedback loop between the mind, the body, and the practice, so each person can train in a way that reflects their real response.”

The strongest aggregate finding was that 76.8% of research-qualified sessions lowered heart rate from the beginning of the session to the end. The analysis also found that sessions had an average start heart rate of 73.64 bpm and an average end heart rate of 67.14 bpm. The average absolute heart-rate change was 8.96 bpm, and the average largest heart-rate drop from session start was 11.37 bpm. Dojo also analyzed resting-heart-rate response where that data was available. In sessions with resting-heart-rate data, 27.0% went below the user’s recorded resting heart rate, with a median time to first below-resting-heart-rate point of 2.0 minutes. This release focuses on the strongest aggregate findings from sessions that met Dojo’s data-quality criteria. More detailed breakdowns by session length, meditation technique, time of day, and experience level are reserved for future reports.

The analysis was conducted on anonymized aggregate data and designed to protect user data privacy rights. Dojo used completed sessions with sufficient heart-rate coverage and treated missing heart-rate data as missing rather than inferred. The dataset includes heart-rate data, but Dojo is not making device-specific claims from this analysis. The report focuses on aggregate physiological response during meditation rather than comparisons by device type or demographic segment.

Dojo’s long-term goal is to make meditation more personalized, measurable, and responsive. Through AI-guided session generation and physiological feedback, the company is developing a system that can help users understand which practices are most likely to support calm, focus, emotional regulation, sleep preparation, recovery, and stress reduction.

“AI can personalize mind training in a way static content never could,” said Shamir. “If the system can learn from what someone says they need and how their body responds, meditation can become less generic and more useful.”

Available as a meditation app for iOS, Dojo supports custom meditation, breath work, body scan meditation, meditation music, meditation with binaural beats, morning meditation, evening meditation, meditation for sleep, meditation for gratitude, and energizing breath-work. The app is designed for both meditation beginners and advanced users who want a personal meditation guide that can respond to their goals and physiological feedback.

Learn more about Dojo at https://www.medidojo.com/

Download Dojo on the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dojo-master-meditation/id6503365052

Research blog post: https://www.medidojo.com/blog/state-of-meditation-2026/

Access the complete findings: research paper (PDF) and full report (PDF).

About Dojo

Dojo is an AI-native consciousness training platform built in California. The company creates adaptive meditation experiences based on user goals and physiological feedback, including heart rate and related signals. Unlike traditional apps built around static content libraries, Dojo helps users generate personalized meditation sessions in real time, making meditation more measurable, customizable, and responsive.

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Moonlock by MacPaw Wins Red Dot Award 2026

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47 minutes ago

September 7, 2026

Moonlock earns recognition in the Interface & User Experience Design category, proving that thoughtful design belongs in cybersecurity as much as anywhere else.

BOSTON, Sept. 7, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — MacPaw is proud to announce that Moonlock, its antivirus and protection app for Mac users, has been named a winner of the 2026 Red Dot Award: Brands & Communication Design, recognized in the Interface & User Experience Design category. The award is an international mark of design excellence, judged on the strength of an idea, its execution, and its real-world impact.

Since launching in October 2025, Moonlock has taken a different approach to cybersecurity, reflected in every detail of the app. Its intuitive interface, plain-spoken copy, and hand-drawn illustrations replace the cold, technical tone common to security software. The result is a security app making protection feel easy and stress-free for everyone, expert or not.

Clear, human, beautiful products are a core MacPaw value, and the company pays attention to every detail, from aesthetics to user experience. Moonlock is no exception: it was built to make cybersecurity accessible to everyone, whatever their background — and design is central to that mission.

“Cybersecurity has a reputation for being intimidating — all alerts and jargon, with the sense that you need to be an expert just to stay safe. We built Moonlock to change that,” said Oleg Stukalenko, Head of Product Management at Moonlock by MacPaw. “From the start, we wanted it to feel human and welcoming, so that online protection becomes a natural part of everyday life rather than something people worry about. We think of design as everything someone actually experiences with us, not just the screen in front of them. Having the Red Dot jury recognize that work means a lot to the whole team.”

The Red Dot Award: Brands & Communication Design celebrates the craft behind how a product looks, feels, and speaks to the people who use it. Held since 1993, the competition is open to established and emerging designers, agencies, and companies across 18 categories. Each year, an international jury of 30 experts from design, science, media, and consultancy evaluates the entries, bringing a wide range of professional and cultural perspectives to every decision.

With this win, Moonlock continues MacPaw’s legacy of design excellence. It is the company’s fourth Red Dot Award: in 2017, Gemini 2 became the first macOS application to win the honor, followed by CleanMyMac in 2021 and CleanMy®Phone in 2024.

About Moonlock

Moonlock is a part of the MacPaw ecosystem that offers simple, approachable, and stress-free Mac protection and antivirus capabilities.

About MacPaw

MacPaw is a global technology company founded in Kyiv, Ukraine, with offices in Boston, MA and the EU, creating a digital ecosystem for Mac users. Combining capabilities such as system care, cybersecurity, app discovery, and more, the ecosystem aims to unite MacPaw’s suite of software, third-party tools, and AI solutions to collaborate on behalf of the user. Through Eney, an AI-powered assistant and the interface of the ecosystem, MacPaw aims to help users and developers within their workflows, driving the next generation of human-computer interaction.

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DBGallery Delivers “AI Knowledge Layer for Visual Assets,” Bringing Automated Enterprise DAM to Organizations of All Sizes

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47 minutes ago

September 7, 2026

Automated AI metadata converts photos and videos into structured organizational knowledge, transforming digital chaos into a strategic advantage without the manual effort.

TORONTO, Sept. 7, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — DBGallery today announced the expansion of its visual intelligence capabilities, formally positioning its platform as an AI Knowledge Layer for Visual Assets for organizations and teams of all sizes. By replacing manual keywording with automated AI metadata analysis, DBGallery converts raw photos, graphics, and video into rich, structured organizational knowledge the moment they are uploaded.

For years, visual assets lost value because nobody had the bandwidth to tag them. With an automated metadata layer, that changes completely. Visual media becomes instantly discoverable, creating compounding, multi-year value, and puts DAM within reach of more organizations.

Historically, Digital Asset Management (DAM) was reserved for large media organizations with dedicated archiving staff. Resource-constrained teams across tourism boards, municipalities, higher education, non-profits, and marketing teams across numerous industries were locked out by the sheer labor required to manually tag thousands of files—turning vast digital asset libraries into unsearchable “file graveyards.”

DBGallery’s AI Knowledge Layer changes that economic equation by shifting DAM from a labor-intensive requirement into an automated, accessible workflow hub.

“For years, visual assets lost value over time because nobody had the bandwidth to tag them properly,” said Glenn Rogers, Director of Product and Project Management at DBGallery. “When you introduce an automated metadata knowledge layer, that changes completely. Visual media becomes instantly discoverable through structured context, custom prompt targeting, embedded OCR text, and interactive video transcripts. The metadata doesn’t just solve today’s search, it creates compounding, multi-year value for the entire organization, and brings DAM within reach to more organizations.”

Key Capabilities of the DBGallery AI Knowledge Layer include:

Automated Auto-Enrichment: Extracts OCR text from images and PDFs, identifies objects and faces, and summarizes photo and video content upon upload or subsequent batch analysis.Custom AI Description Prompts: Admins and users can tailor global or image-specific prompts to extract structured domain data—ranging from architectural style identification and brand compliance to social media captions and emotional tone analysis—and can be outputted as HTML or JSON for direct ingestion into websites or ERP systems.Interactive Video Transcription & Timelines: Generates time-stamped, sentence-by-sentence spoken transcripts aligned with video playback, allowing teams to click any transcript line to jump instantly to that exact moment in the video.Non-Spoken Scene Analysis: Automatically inserts AI visual scene descriptions into pauses in speech or non-verbal video clips, ensuring complete visual context alongside spoken transcripts.

This AI framework is integrated directly into DBGallery’s production-proven platform, capable of scaling to millions of assets and thousands of users. Designed specifically for multi-user team collaboration, the platform combines Single Sign-On (SSO) and granular action-level permissions with full audit trails, custom metadata fields, usage analytics, and cloud or on-premises deployment options.

By combining cutting-edge AI automation with a secure, highly scalable foundation, DBGallery allows organizations of any size to deploy enterprise-grade digital asset management without adding administrative headcount or compromising on data governance.

To explore the AI Metadata Value Chain or learn more about DBGallery’s enterprise AI capabilities, visit https://dbgallery.com/ai.

About DBGallery

DBGallery is a leading Digital Asset Management (DAM) platform trusted by over 100+ brands across more than 25 countries, ranging from non-profits and educational institutions to global enterprise organizations. By combining scalable SaaS or on-premises architecture with powerful AI metadata automation, DBGallery empowers teams of any size to organize, discover, and turn visual media into structured, searchable business data. Learn more at https://dbgallery.com and https://dbgallery.com/ai.

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Coda Launches Fresh Coda.co Website, Built for Publisher Growth

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47 minutes ago

September 7, 2026

SINGAPORE, Sept. 7, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Coda today launched a revamped Coda .co website, creating a more comprehensive destination to explore Coda’s products, pricing, insights, and global capabilities.

The new Coda.co has been rebuilt to meet the needs of Coda’s B2B audiences, with gaming remaining at the heart of Coda’s business and expertise. The site also reflects how Coda is bringing that experience to a growing range of digital commerce businesses across entertainment, education and other verticals.

Designed to make it easier to evaluate opportunities with Coda, the site brings together practical information on market dynamics and local payment preferences alongside richer product pages, case studies and pricing.

The new Market Guides provide a country-level view of consumer behavior, payment preferences, and growth opportunities across 49 markets, while the Payment Guides go deeper on 94 individual payment methods worldwide, covering reach, adoption, and integration considerations.

Coda has also introduced a dedicated Pricing page that offers greater transparency into standard and custom pricing options, payment method coverage, and other commercial considerations. This sits alongside an expanded repository of case studies, white papers, and blog posts, providing deeper insight into why businesses choose Coda and how they use its Merchant of Record service and broader product suite to grow revenue, enter new markets, and build stronger direct-to-consumer channels with ease.

Shane Happach, CEO of Coda, said, “Publishers and brands are making decisions across more markets, payment methods and channels than ever. Our job is to bring clarity to that complexity. The new Coda.co provides a sharper view of the commercial opportunities we see and how Coda’s products and services help our partners turn that potential into meaningful growth. Gaming remains central to Coda, and the expertise we’ve built in the industry continues to shape how we help partners grow across digital commerce.”

The new Coda.co launch marks another milestone in Coda’s evolution as a global digital commerce leader, with a site designed to grow alongside its products, partnerships, and ambitions. The website will be available in Japanese, Chinese, and South Korean languages by the end of the year.

Learn more at the new www.coda.co

About Coda

Coda is a global leader in monetization, distribution, and commerce, trusted by the biggest names in gaming, entertainment, and technology, including Activision, Electronic Arts, Riot Games, Ubisoft, and Moonton. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Singapore, Coda operates with 670+ employees worldwide, with core hubs in Asia and Europe. Coda combines payments, commerce, distribution, and rewards to drive global revenue growth for brands and publishers.

Coda’s products include Codapay, which provides access to 400+ payment methods across 80+ markets through a single API integration; Coda Webstore, which powers fully customized direct-to-consumer storefronts; Coda Consumer Platforms, including Codashop, Recharge.com, and Startselect.com; Coda Distribution, which extends reach through a network of commerce partners; and Giftcloud, a UK-based rewards business serving enterprise customers across Europe.

Coda is backed by Apis Partners, Insight Partners, Smash Capital, and GIC, and has been named an APAC High Growth Company (2023) by Financial Times, one of Granite Asia’s NextGenTech 30 (2024), a payments leader on Fortune’s Fintech Innovation Asia list (2024), and listed among The Straits Times Fastest Growing Fintechs (2024). For more on Coda, visit coda.co.

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