Posted Jun 11, 2013 by Ingrid Lunden (@ingridlunden) After months of speculation, the fate of Waze, the social-mapping-location-data startup, is finally decided: Google is buying the company, giving the search giant a social boost to its already-strong mapping and mobile businesses.
People don't blink when they're asleep. In a 24 hour day, most(?) people sleep for eight hours, so 15,360 would be a lot closer for an entire day. Also, anyone who uses a computer blinks a lot less than normal.
The problem, though, is that counting steps is actually a fairly one-dimensional way to track fitness, or even activity. And thatâs pretty much all the FitBit Flex does. To be sure, 10,000 steps a day sounds like a sizable amount, and in fact, it is: itâs about the equivalent of walking five miles a day.