Exploring problematic smartphone use during COVID-19 pandemic
Someone using a smartphone. Credit: Malte Helmhold, Unsplash, CC0 (creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) A new survey study has identified links between problematic smartphone use and low sense of control, repetitive thinking, and fear of missing out (FOMO) during the COVID-19 pandemic in the spring of 2021, suggesting possible avenues for reducing the severity of such use. Julia Brailovskaia […]
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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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Cheap laptop demand disintegrates following pandemic buying surge
Analyst firm Mercury Research said that the low end of the notebook PC and Chromebook market “evaporated” in the third quarter, leading to the worst quarter-over-quarter downturn in mobile CPUs in the history of the PC CPU market. Mercury said that a drop in demand was expected, given that the PC market had largely been […]
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