Hot-or-not is a site that most of us who have used the web are familiar with. Sit down at your desk, look at pictures and profiles of a bunch of people, and respond to them with an easy voting ...

The overall landscape of mobile apps is an interesting one, with most of the top free titles on Apple’s App Store being games or services pushed by massive companies like Twitter (Vine) or Google ...

What could be simpler, an iPhone app that let's you vote on poll questions formulated by your friends? Nothing to it, right? So what makes this app so delightful? To start, Wroblewski and Cole have an ...

Measuring our heart rate during exercise is one of the most effective ways of knowing if we’re working hard enough. It shows us when we’re “in the zone,” if you’ll excuse such a hateful phrase. It may ...

Polar, the mobile app that allows anyone to create their own quick poll, has a new update to its iOS app. Meant to help polling and opinion sharing be entertaining, the company has added the ability ...

Whether you’re using the Vantage V, its smaller sibling the Vantage M or something more meaty like the Grit X, Polar’s current crop of GPS sport watches and fitness trackers are smarter than ever – ...

Finnish-based fitness tracking app Polar has temporarily disabled its global activity map feature after last week journalists used it to track down the real-world identities of military and ...

Running data from the popular Polar Flow app could show sensitive military details. (Staff Sgt. Jason W. Fudge/Marine Corps) Military officials working at nuclear weapons facilities. FBI and NSA ...

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Who would have thought getting in shape could be so risky. Fitness apps help you track your runs, calories burned, and maybe even your heart rate. If you happen to be using a Polar device and its ...