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There’s a 2013 Black Mirror episode in which a young widow played by Hayley Atwell signs up to an online service that scrapes a person’s entire digital footprint to create a virtual simulation. She soon starts chatting online with her late husband (Domhnall Gleeson), before things inevitably get Black Mirror-y.Laurie Anderson, the American avant garde artist, musician and thinker, hasn’t seen the episode but, in the last few years, has lived a version of it: growing hopelessly hooked on an AI text generator that emulates…

Many people have compared the addictive nature of social media to cigarettes. Checking your likes, they say, is the new smoke break. Others say the unease over social media is just the next round of moral panic about new technologies. We are a pair of researchers who investigate how social media affects the mental health of young people. More than 75% of teens check their phone hourly, and half say they feel like they're addicted to their devices. Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering…

The non-opioid drug from Vertex Pharmaceuticals lowered the pain of study subjects, though it didn’t work better than popular painkiller Vicodin. The non-opioid drug from Vertex Pharmaceuticals lowered the pain of study subjects, though it didn’t work better than popular painkiller Vicodin. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All…

Doomscrolling, mindlessly cycling through apps and feeling an urge to check your phone – does this sound familiar?If so, you’re far from alone. Many smartphone users have difficult relationships with their screen time, a wide-ranging Guardian project has found, with many recognising they are unhappy with their dependence on their cellphone but feeling unable to cut down their use.Elliot: ‘Hours will pass without knowing it.’ Photograph: Guardian CommunityConcentration was a key area that the project’s 400 respondents,…

Hannah Devlin / The Guardian: A UK study of 7,000 people born between 2000 and 2002: 48% agreed with “I think I am addicted to social media”; 57% of girls agreed, compared to 37% of boys — Exclusive: Millennium Cohort's finding raises questions about why a large proportion has a difficult relationship with social media Hannah Devlin / The Guardian: A UK study of 7,000 people born between 2000 and 2002: 48% agreed with “I think I am addicted to social media”; 57% of girls…

Evolutionary ecologist Tobin Hammer challenges the traditional view of microbial benefits in a peer-reviewed article, suggesting that hosts may not always benefit from their microbes. Instead, they might be evolutionarily addicted to them, a concept known as “evolutionary addiction” or “evolved dependence.” This theory, which likens the dependence of hosts on microbes to a form of addiction, has implications for understanding the evolution and stability of host-microbe interactions. Hammer argues that this perspective…

When the web-based word game Wordle launched in 2021 it became super popular extremely fast. Several people have written entire features about why it struck such a chord, considering whether Covid lockdowns made us all desperate for fresh, new, and, crucially, simple challenges. Or whether it was the fact that scores were so easily sharable that made it a hit. Whatever the reason, I get it if Wordle is still close to your heart. But I also totally understand if you're sick and tired of it, too.Like most people, I was…

Meta, ByteDance, Snap, and Google tried to get several lawsuits against them dismissed that alleged they were deliberately making social media platforms addictive for children. However, a US federal judge has ruled that the lawsuits won't be dismissed, and the tech companies will stand trial…

A 15-year-old boy's addiction to online games has resulted in his admission to a care facility for counselling and treatment. The young boy started showing odd behaviours such as uttering "fire, fire" while sleeping and have a pair of restless hands, as if he is constantly playing the game…

While Samsung usually gets a lot of flak for pre-installing its apps on Galaxy smartphones and tablets, many of its first-party apps are genuinely feature-rich. In most cases, they also offer better performance than Google’s apps. One of my favorite Samsung apps is Samsung Internet, and it is my first choice for a web browser on all Android phones, even non-Samsung ones. Apart from being more responsive and resource efficient than Google Chrome, Samsung Internet offers a lot of customizability. Here are the three Samsung…