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Are smartphones making us miserable? A Google study aims to find out
Google is teaming up with researchers to investigate how the mobile devices glued to our hands may be affecting our minds. Conducted with researchers from the University of Oregon, the effort will…
Tech neck: what are smartphones doing to our bodies? | Life and style
Name: Tech neck. Age: Two years old. Appearance: The next stage of human evolution. This sounds exciting! Are we all going to be cyborgs soon? Not exactly. Then what on earth is…
4 Ways to Ruin Your Smartphone’s Battery
cliplab/Shutterstock.com There’s a lot of information out there about how to treat smartphone batteries. We can argue about the best practices, but there are some clearly bad things that can ruin batteries…
Parents are worried about the effects of smartphones on their kids’ brains
The vast majority of teens and tweens today have smartphones. These parents said no. May 9, 2022 at 7:00 a.m. EDT From left, Mary Virginia, Jack, Whitman, Annalise and mother Adriana Stacey…
Smartphones Are Killing Kids – The American Conservative
A mental health crisis has been raging among today’s teens, especially teenage girls. In a recent essay in the New York Times, writer Matt Richter explores this disturbing trend, focusing on the…
The Best Smartphones Of 2021 Ranked
Love it or hate it, Apple makes great products. Samsung was a strong competitor this year, launching high-end smartphones of both the folding and non-folding variety, but the company still hasn’t managed…
Are smartphones serving as adult pacifiers?
Also — much like children — we become frantic when our “security blanket” goes missing, a reaction confirmed by several studies. In 2014, after Melumad accidentally left her phone in a restaurant,…
A new competitor to AppleCare offers cheaper insurance for smartphones
Given the steep costs, it’s easy to see why some customers forgo AppleCare+, Preferred Care or similar protection plans. Dropping your phone down a stairwell or spilling liquid on it is no…
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…
New Lens Technology Promises to Eliminate Camera Bumps, Notches in Smartphones
Over the past few years, we have seen significant developments in smartphone cameras. As companies started integrating more advanced lenses into smartphones, offering 100x zoom capability or Liquid Lens support, to improve…
3D digital holograms on smartphones
Hologram implemented with two-dimensional semiconductor WSe2/ReSe2, which is a polarization-sensing photodiode, ReSe2 on the front and WSe2 on the back are imaged in three-dimensional space. Credit: Korea Institute of Science and Technology…