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Google Now app gets a pedometer: The first step in Google’s fitness tracking mission?

Google Now app gets a pedometer: The first step in Google’s fitness tracking mission?

Many are speculating today whether Google is looking to stake a claim on the fitness monitoring market, since the Google Now Android application has been quietly updated this week to include walking and cycling tracking features. Google Now is a bit like Android’s answer to Siri, it’s an app that serves up suggestions and information to you when you think you might need it and up until now has done things like showing you the weather … Read entire article »

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Google makes diagnosing yourself online a little more accurate

Google makes diagnosing yourself online a little more accurate

We’ve all been there, you’ve got a pain in your leg or a weird swollen eye, you put your symptoms into Google and suddenly you’re terrified you’ve got some kind of crazy flesh eating illness and only minutes to live. Well, although that may be a pretty extreme case, Google is on a mission to make self diagnosis online as easy and accurate as possible. In the past if you Googled certain symptoms you’d find a … Read entire article »

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