Older U.K. teens are facing a midnight social media curfew and restrictions on infinite scrolling. The results of a social media restriction trial on hundreds of teens in the U.K. found that it ...

As a genre, the “award acceptance lecture” is little more than a formality and a banality. But there is at least one charming exception to this rule—the talks given by the foremost computer scientists ...

“Social media is increasingly anti-social,” argues New York University psychology professor Jay Van Bavel. Only 7 percent of Instagram time and 17 percent of Facebook time is spent interacting with ...

A new app called HyperTexting is making it as easy to surf the web as it is to scroll through a social media feed, like Facebook or X. The app, newly available for iOS, also aims to make updating your ...

Apple announced today that App Store Connect now includes new age rating questions for apps with social media features. Here are the details. During WWDC26, Apple announced a series of new child ...

Mayor Michelle Wu said the City of Boston, on behalf of the Boston Public Schools, has filed a lawsuit against Meta, TikTok, Snapchat, and other addictive social media companies she says are harming ...

Four states are seeking $1.4 trillion in penalties from Meta over claims that the social media giant designed Facebook and Instagram to be addictive to children and withheld information from the ...

Bob Starr was delighted with his vibe-coded website. “Boomberg” showed how much US tax money is going to tech companies, and Starr launched it online immediately after making it. It wasn’t until ...

We’ve all been there: lying on the sofa at an awkward angle, phone in hand, scrolling through reels. It’s so easy to lose track of time, and so hard to disconnect. Big tech has been hooking us on ...

Numerous social media apps will be banned for under-16s in the UK after Prime Minister Keir Starmer introduced landmark legislation and a promise to deliver “world leading action.” The likes of X, ...

Social media usage is at an all-time high. According to Meltwater's 2026 Global Digital Report, 5.66 billion people use social media, almost a 5% increase compared to the previous year, and Gen Z ...

Internal documents show how tech giants grabbed children’s attention throughout the day, a strategy that schools say has undermined education. By Jennifer Valentino-DeVries Jennifer Valentino-DeVries ...