Among other things, Einstein's theory of special relativity says that as an object's velocity increases, time as experienced by the object will slow down when compared to another object traveling at a ...

New York City-based Noom launched a new Android app, a pedometer that tracks steps throughout the day while running in the background and only occupying about 3 percent of the phone's battery life.

Step counting has been a time-honored fitness metric for decades, even if the 10,000-step rule of thumb was based on a Japanese marketing strategy rather than anything resembling science. The older ...

My days of physical fitness seemed far behind me when I traded in running shoes and an active lifestyle for the more sedentary ways of office employment. But an app I’ve been using for a couple of ...

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It seems really weird to think back to a time when your mobile phone couldn’t do the jobs of a dozen other devices. Now that smartphones have supplanted everything from compasses and Rolodexes to ...

TMAP, a navigation service, will add a 'pedometer' feature. On the 26th, TMAP Mobility announced the launch of 'TMAP Pedometer,' a service that allows users to manage both vehicle movement and walking ...

Several popular free pedometer apps which are designed to track your fitness are seriously flawed and have "an unacceptable error percentage", a new study has claimed ...

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