Companies like Google are using AI to take over the bulk of coding. This gives developers more decision-making and oversight ...

Cultivating Presence in a Distracted World, Cody Cook-Parrott details a highly relatable addiction to social media ...

BRUSSELS — Doom scrolling is doomed, if the EU gets its way. The European Commission is for the first time tackling the addictiveness of social media in a fight against TikTok that may set new design ...

The European Commission on Friday accused TikTok of purposefully designing its app to be “addictive,” calling out features such as infinite scroll, autoplay, and push notifications, as well as its ...

Matt Ferrante used to pull into his driveway after work and scroll on his phone for a few minutes before going inside. That stopped when his wife caught him on their Ring camera.

YouTube just added a new parental control that lets you put a hard limit on how long a supervised teen account can scroll Shorts. If you’re trying to rein in swipe fatigue without banning the app, ...

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Android is preparing to update scrolling screenshots so the system automatically deletes the original image after you save the expanded version. This change prevents gallery clutter by removing the ...

A new study arrives amid growing concern about social media’s role in the youth mental health crisis. While many recent studies have focused their attention on: How much screen time is too much?, Xiao ...

We live in a digital era. There's simply no way of ignoring it. Many of us sit on our phones for hours, scrolling through different social media apps. Whether we're watching our friends' stories on ...

This is Part 2 of a series on breaking free from doomscrolling. Read Part 1 here. Co-authored by Alicia Del Prado and Bette Maisel Back in 2011, Apple’s iPhone ads plastered billboards with glossy ...

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