In the face of skyrocketing obesity and declining physical activity rates it's often easy to overlook simple solutions to tackle complex health issues. Getting on the right track to healthy living can ...

A newly-released app uses police data to show users where recent crimes have happened - so they can pick safe routes to walk home. WalkSafe pins stabbings, muggings and burglaries on a map to warn ...

The WalkSafe app, which was launched in September and is ranked eighth on Apple’s App Store, has seen exponential growth in downloads since the murder of Sarah Everard earlier this month in the U.K., ...

Using a smartphone while walking can be dangerous business — you could stroll right into a light pole, off a bridge, into traffic or away from reality. But this particular risky activity doesn't ...

MIAMI (CBS4) – A group of Miami elementary school students learned an important lesson Wednesday about the benefits of walking to school. In the program called "WalkSafe", the students learn about ...

Research in social science has shown that mobile phone conversations distract users, presenting a significant impact to pedestrian safety; for example, a mobile phone user deep in conversation while ...

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Continuing on Bdaily’s feature week investigating entrepreneurship, I hear from Emma Kay, the founder of Walksafe. Walksafe is a platform designed to make walking at night safer for marginalised ...

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This past May, 77-year-old Diane Clementine and her friend, both residents of Putney Meadows, were walking on the sidewalk near the Putney Food Co-op when a car jumped the curb and hit them. The ...

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The recent HotMobile conference in San Diego attracted dozens of top mobile technology researchers who presented papers on their latest findings. While we didn’t attend the event, a couple of papers ...