As social media continues to favour endlessly addictive short-form videos and infinite scrolling, it’s little surprise that many of us are starting to feel uncomfortably close to the humans in Wall.E.

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I've been using Brick, a $59 gadget designed to help cut down on phone screen time. It acts like a physical key. You can only ...

I don’t remember exactly when it happened. Probably around 2012, when I downloaded Instagram to my iPhone and posted my first heavily filtered image. In the years that followed, the iPhone, which had, ...

In a world where every app competes for our attention, it's no wonder phone addiction is a growing complaint. While there are many gadgets designed to enhance focus, your phone can be a productivity ...

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Screentime. It brings us together, tears us apart, and more people are wanting distance from it. In recent years, several apps and devices have entered the market promoting a phone-free, or at least ...