fitness tracking
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Are Wearables Accurate at Detecting Calorie Burn?
It’s easy to attribute omnipotence to one’s devices. I’d hate to know what my iPhone knows about me. That said, there are still aspects of existence that Silicon Valley has yet to quantify (though not, I’m sure, for lack of trying). Calorie-burn might be one of these. While countless apps/devices profess to track it with…
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Guys, Fitbit Started Profiting Off Health Data Long Before Google Showed Up
Since news broke that Google bought Fitbit for $US2.1 ($3) billion, one of the big questions was how that massive treasure trove of Fitbit data would be handled. Everyone saw what happened with Nest. As a company, Nest and its data operated separately for a long while, but earlier this year, Nest users were told…
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How To Avoid Being Tracked On Your Laptop, Phone, Or Fitness Tracker
Today we’re all being tracked by more gadgets than ever before, and in ways that might not be immediately obvious; but it is possible to put restrictions on the data that your laptop, your smartphone, and even your fitness tracker can collect about you — in particular, where you are and what you’re doing with…
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Pebble Has Its Own Health App Now
Pebble has been the “little wearable that could” ever since it debuted its first smartwatch on Kickstarter in 2012. Since then, the company’s added impressive hardware and software piecemeal over the last three years, and its latest addition is Pebble Health.