Tag: Smartphones
Your mobile phone can give away your location, even if you...
Guevara Noubir, Northeastern University
U.S. military officials were recently caught off guard by revelations that servicemembers’ digital fitness trackers were storing the locations of their...
Does Apple have an obligation to make the iPhone safer for...
Jean Twenge, San Diego State University
The average teen spends at least six hours a day looking at a screen, with most of it from...
Does Apple have an obligation to make the iPhone safer for...
Jean Twenge, San Diego State University
The average teen spends at least six hours a day looking at a screen, with most of it from...
A grim year for the smartphone: 5 essential reads
Nick Lehr, The Conversation
The year 2017 marked the 10th anniversary of the iPhone. Five years ago, for the first time, over 50 percent of...
Skip fights about digital devices over the holidays – instead, let...
Shelia R. Cotten, Michigan State University
Holidays are a time for family and friends to come together, to celebrate and to enjoy each other’s company....
Why Silicon Valley wants you to text and drive
Jack Barkenbus, Vanderbilt University
As self-driving cars come closer to being common on American roads, much of the rhetoric promoting them has to do with...
‘Screen time’ is about more than setting limits
Nathan Fisk, University of South Florida
In today’s media-rich world (or media-saturated, depending on your view), one rarely has to look far to find parents...
What’s behind phantom cellphone buzzes?
This is your brain on plugs.
'Brain' via www.shutterstock.comDaniel J. Kruger, University of Michigan
Have you ever experienced a phantom phone call or text? You’re convinced...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
