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Ignoring a partner in favor of your phone, or “phubbing,” can lead to feelings of distrust and ostracism. Here’s how to stop.
New research says most of us underestimate the power of the casual check-in.
"What these technologies do best is remind us of what we’re not doing: who’s hanging out without us, who’s working more than us, what news we’re not reading. They refuse to allow our consciousness off the hook, in order to do the essential, protective, regenerative work of sublimating and repressing. Instead, they provide the opposite: a nonstop barrage of notifications and reminders and interactions. They bring life to the forefront, constantly, so that we can’t ignore it. They’re not a respite from work—or, as promised, a way to optimize your work. They’re just more work. And six months into a society-throttling pandemic, they’re more inescapable than ever."
Do smartphones provide filmmakers with the opportunities to organically incorporate technology into their stories? How has the evolution of phone communication changed and driven plotlines?
A new book presents a 30 day program for handling cell phone addiction.
Amid an opioid epidemic, the rise of deadly synthetic drugs and the widening legalization of marijuana, a curious bright spot has emerged in the youth drug culture: American teenagers are growing less likely to try or regularly use drugs, including alcohol.
With minor fits and starts, the trend has been building for a decade, with no clear understanding as to why. Some experts theorize that falling cigarette-smoking rates are cutting into a key gateway to drugs, or that antidrug education campaigns, long a largely failed enterprise, have finally taken hold.
But researchers are starting to ponder an intriguing question: Are teenagers using drugs less in part because they are constantly stimulated and entertained by their computers and phones?
New rules fine lawmakers for taking photos and video on the House floor.
The system of showing clothes on a runway, then selling them in stores six months later, seems increasingly irrelevant in the age of social media.
Presidential hopeful Senator Lindsey Graham repeatedly destroys a cellphone in a video released the day after rival for the Republican Party's nomination, Donald Trump, disclosed his number.
The strain of getting young people to turn from their screens and look into other people’s eyes.
Staring at screens right before sleep turns out to be a lot worse than previously thought. Dr. Dan Siegel, clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine, lays out all of the negative effects bedtime screen viewing can have on the brain and body.
Not quite useless after all, hundreds of mostly empty phone booths in Manhattan have been rigged with transmitting “beacons” by an advertising company, BuzzFeed reports. The city’s Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications apparently allowed Titan, which sells ad space outside and on public transit, to install Bluetooth devices that send signals to smartphone apps for pinpointing a user, often for delivering location-specific messages or deals. The public was not notified, which is totally not creepy at all.
It’s been a surprisingly tough week for Apple. After initial rave reviews of its iPhone 6, a problem has occurred. Users report that when the phone is placed in pants' pocket, it bends! Add to that an update to iOS 8 update that killed cell service and TouchID on some users’ phones.
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A Korean word? A new boy band? This new acronym is replacing LOL and ROFL on social media.
This is the first war that will be covered on TikTok by super-empowered individuals armed only with smartphones, so acts of brutality will be documented and broadcast worldwide without any editors or filters. On the first day of the war, we saw invading Russian tank units unexpectedly being exposed by Google maps, because Google wanted to alert drivers that the Russian armor was causing traffic jams.
International photographer Eric Pickersgill has created a fitting series entitled "Removed", where he presents individual portraits in beautiful black and white.
A new study reports cell phones may be making us hypersocial, rather than antisocial as previous research suggests. Steps to regain control over smartphone addictions : - Relax and celebrate the fact your addiction reflects a normal urge to connect with others!
- Turn off push notifications and set appropriate times to check your phone intentionally.
- Create “intentional protocols” with friends, family and work circles to set clear expectations on when to communicate.
The one category among these that feels like a genuine trend—one not bolstered by Apple’s own apps or APIs—is mental health and mindfulness. As its Editor’s Pick in this category—and, on top of that, its App of the Year—Apple selected Calm. The app, which debuted in 2012, includes guided meditations ranging in time from three to 25 minutes, “Sleep Stories” to wind you down at the end of the day, breathing exercises, and music selections to help you relax, focus, or sleep.
Moderation in our digital world should be the hallmark of a healthy relationship with technology.
Professional photographers sound off on what it was like to shoot for the magazine entirely on iPhones.
Traveling without easy access to wi-fi is problematic. Google has a new tool that allows users to be in a place without Internet access — whether on a sidewalk in New York City or a back road in Tuscany — and pull up a map that lets them get directions and use turn-by-turn voice navigation, as well as search for places (art galleries, restaurants, hotels, museums) and see details including hours, phone numbers and reviews.
Deleting the name of a dead friend from your phone can feel like removing that person from the world.
In the texting era, symbols may say more than the words around them (or, at least, we think they do).
Kim Kardashian loves her Blackberry. She loves it so much that she buys them whenever she can from eBay because, she told Re/code's Kara Swisher, she's "afraid they'll go extinct."
Plagued with allegations of hardware that’s a little too bendy for its newest iPhone and a problematic software update, shares of Apple (AAPL) are bending.
Of course, Apple products have had problems before. An earlier update to an iPhone would lose connectivity due to a faulty antenna design that founder Steve Jobs was able to do damage control around. But with more scrutiny on Apple, such mishaps are more difficult to scoff off and erode — maybe just a little — Apple’s well-groomed aura of perfection.
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