Google and Meta’s underwater cables up the stakes on internet control
One sunny Thursday morning in September 2021, three men gathered at the Multimedia University of Kenya, in Nairobi, for a small ceremony. The usually pristine grass of the campus was brown and dry. Jacaranda petals, fallen off the trees but still vibrantly purple, littered the ground, and a troop of baboons rummaged through garbage cans […]
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How Emerging Technology Is Breaking Arms Control
Editor’s Note: New technologies are emerging at a dizzying pace, and arms control agreements cannot seem to keep up. My Brookings colleague Amy Nelson examines how the increased speed of technological change is creating holes in existing arms control agreements and how policymakers might better respond as the speed of change continues to grow. Daniel Byman *** […]
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Ten ways to take control of your smartphone | Smartphones
Are you in control of your smartphone or is it in control of you? Sometimes it is difficult to tell. One minute you might be using FaceTime to chat with loved ones or talking about your favourite TV show on Twitter. Next, you’re stuck in a TikTok “scroll hole” or tapping your 29th email notification […]
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‘Problematic’ smartphone use during pandemic linked to lost sense of control, negative thinking
Time spent using digital devices like smartphones has increased exponentially since the start of the pandemic, negatively affecting the physical and mental health of those who engage in “excessive” use, new research has found. A study by researchers in Germany published Wednesday in the open-access journal PLOS ONE identified links between “problematic” smartphone use in the spring […]
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