smartphones

Turn off, turn on: Simple step can thwart top phone hackers - AP As a member of the secretive Senate Intelligence Committee, Sen. Angus King has reason to worry about hackers. At a briefing by security staff this year, he said he got some advice on how to help keep his cellphone secure. Step...

Amy Orben: ‘To talk about smartphones affecting the brain is a slippery slope’ - The Guardian The psychologist talks about the widespread fear that smartphones are harmful to our wellbeing – and the difficulty of proving it Amy Orben is a research fellow at Emmanuel College and the MRC...

Are ‘you’ just inside your skin or is your smartphone part of you? - Aeon In November 2017, a gunman entered a church in Sutherland Springs in Texas, where he killed 26 people and wounded 20 others. He escaped in his car, with police and residents in hot pursuit, before losing control of the...

Cal Newport on Why We'll Look Back at Our Smartphones Like Cigarettes - GQ In 2004, when Cal Newport was still an undergrad at Dartmouth, all his friends were making accounts on a new website called Facebook. Newport opted out. This was not the moral or political objection it might be today...

We’re No Longer in Smartphone Plateau. We’re in the Smartphone Decline. - NY Mag From roughly 2007 until 2013, the smartphone market grew at an astonishing pace, posting double-digit growth year after year, even during a global recession. They were the good years, the type that would inspire a...

Study: Who needs food? College students choose smartphones over eating - University of Buffalo Research is first to demonstrate that smartphone use is a reinforcing behavior University at Buffalo researchers have found that college students prefer food deprivation over smartphone deprivation...