(PhysOrg.com) -- Smartphone users who as pedestrians are not very smart about crossing and looking both ways now have a protective shield in the form of an Android app which they can download for free ...

An app that was designed to help women gauge safe neighborhoods is now shrouded in what appears to be a misinformation campaign accusing it of “human trafficking.” Featured Video The WalkSafe app, ...

According to the Office for National Statistics, half of the women in the United Kingdom have felt unsafe when walking alone at night. Most of them call a friend or share their location on their ...

BRADFORD is to become the world’s first WalkSafe city with the launch of a new initiative to help people make safe journeys on foot across the centre at any time of day or night. The city’s Business ...

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 ...

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. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get ...

In today's workplace, it's not unusual for employees to find themselves leaving work late into the night. Whether it's due to working late shifts, attending events, or simply socializing with ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A woman who devised a safety app based on her own experience of unwanted attention, and an awareness of the need for greater ...

A new Android app developed by Dartmouth College and the University of Bologna promises to warn users of oncoming traffic, using the camera on the rear of the phone combined with image recognition and ...