Sarah Wells is an independent science journalist based in Washington DC. I am a doctoral student coming to the end of my degree studying engineering safety, and I feel I’ve been left to do my PhD ...

Teenagers spend more than an hour on their smartphones during a typical school day, mostly on social media apps, concludes a new study. The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical ...

iOS 26 adds two brand new apps to your iPhone’s Home Screen, here’s how I’m using one of them: the Preview app. Apple adds new features to iOS all the time, but it’s not as common that we get brand ...

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In time for the holidays, the Powerball lottery has soared to a new high, reaching the $1 billion mark for the second time this year. After the Powerball jackpot remained unclaimed on Wednesday, Dec.

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T.J. Thomson receives funding from the Australian Research Council. He is an affiliate with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision Making & Society. Aaron J. Snoswell receives research ...

Award-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro is no fan of AI. In fact, for his latest film, a reinterpretation of Mary Shelley’s 1818 gothic novel “Frankenstein,” he says he was inspired by the hubris ...

A VPN-enabled router can provide online privacy for any device connected to it. But not all router models allow it. Joe Supan is a senior writer for CNET covering home technology, broadband, and ...

More than 800 U.S. TikTok users shared their data with The Washington Post. We used it to find out why some people become power users, spending hours per day scrolling. Each circle in the chart ...