You wake up in the morning and, first thing, you open your weather app. You close that pesky ad that opens first and check the forecast. You like your weather app, which shows hourly weather forecasts ...

Long before social media was even a gleam in the eyes of restaurant marketers everywhere, McDonald’s was contributing to the development of location-based social media with the seemingly random ...

She grew up in the One Direction and Marvel fandoms in the early 2010s. This was back when people posted photos of lattes using the Valencia filter on Instagram, and Twitter was still Twitter, a place ...

Kassem Fawaz receives funding from the National Science Foundation. In the past, his research group has received unrestricted gifts from Meta and Google. Jack West does not work for, consult, own ...

NEW YORK, NY (June 18, 2025)--Addictive use of social media, video games, or mobile phones—but not total screen time—is associated with worse mental health among preteens, a new study by researchers ...

More people are deleting social media apps as phone addiction 2025 concerns grow, pushing users to reassess how constant connectivity affects their daily lives. Many now recognize how excessive ...

Snapchat alerts users for all chat screenshots. Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger do so only with disappearing messages. Telegram and Signal restrict or block screenshots in secret chats. WhatsApp ...

Katelyn is a writer with CNET covering artificial intelligence, including chatbots, image and video generators. Her work explores how new AI technology is infiltrating our lives, shaping the content ...