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How Apple Stacked the App Store With Its Own Products
Top spots in App Store search results are some of the most fought over real estate in the online economy. The store generated more than $50 billion in sales last year, and the company said two-thirds of app downloads started with a search. But as Apple has become one of the largest competitors on a platform that it controls, suspicions that…
Apple Has Copied Some of the Most Popular Apps in the App Store For its iPhone
Developers have come to accept that, without warning, Apple can make their work obsolete by announcing a new app or feature that essentially copies their ideas. Some apps have simply buckled under the pressure. The Washington Post: Clue, a popular app women use to track their periods, has risen to near the top of Apple’s Health and Fitness category. It could…
From Fitbits To Rokus, Hedge Funds Mine Data For Consumer Habits
In an effort to gain an elusive trading edge, some of the world’s biggest hedge funds have been snapping up large swaths of alternative data from Fitbits, Rokus, Teslas and employment websites like Glassdoor. Bloomberg reports: Spotting trends and patterns in consumer habits is big business, part of a global market for big data, that a JPMorgan Chase report said could…
Using smart watches to monitor your heart could do more harm than good
Fitness trackers like the Apple Watch now allow you to detect heart conditions such as atrial fibrillation. That’s not always a good thing, says doctor Margaret McCartney Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24332394-700-using-smart-watches-to-monitor-your-heart-could-do-more-harm-than-good/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Amazon Prime Day: Best Health & Fitness Deals
Here’s our roundup of the best deals on health and fitness products for Amazon’s Prime Day. Source: https://www.livescience.com/63073-amazon-prime-day-best-health-fitness-deals.html
Performance-Enhancing Bacteria Has a Symbiotic Relationship With Athletes
Long-time Slashdot reader tomhath shares some big bacteria news from Harvard Medical School:
Researchers from Joslin Diabetes Center determined Veillonella metabolizes lactic acid produced by exercise and converts it into propionate, a short chain fatty acid. The human body then utilizes that propionate to improve exercise capacity… “It creates this positive feedback loop. The host is producing something that this particular microbe…
Smartphones and Fitness Trackers Are Being Used To Gauge Employee Performance
A new system to assess the performance of employees is claimed to be more objective and thus more accurate by utilizing smartphones and fitness trackers. New Atlas reports: The passive system incorporates an app known as PhoneAgent, which was developed by Prof. Andrew Campbell at New Hampshire’s Dartmouth College. Using the smartphone’s own sensors, that app continuously monitors factors such as…
Is Big Tech Needlessly Ruining Entire Industries?
Salon tech editor Keith A. Spencer just published a new article describing what happens when “venture capital-backed entrepreneurs jackhammer their way into a new industry, ‘tech’-ify it in some way, undermine the competition and declare their new way superior once the old is bankrupted.” – Being a taxi driver was once a much-vaunted job, so much so that a taxi medallion…
Exercise Is Important for Physical AND Spiritual Health
Everyone already knows that exercise is important for your body’s fitness. But did you know that it’s critical for your mental and spiritual health as well? One might even say that it is the foundation of wellness for the entire being—body, mind, and spirit. The Science Supporting Exercise Numerous scientific studies have confirmed the importance […] Source: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/ilchilee/2018/12/12/exercise-is-important-for-physical-and-spiritual-health/…