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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The effects of using a screen just before going to sleep have been proven in a new study. (Getty Images) (Tero Vesalainen via ...

New research suggests passive phone scrolling late at night may be an early warning sign of worsening mental health.

I often snap screenshots on my smartphone, typically to create images for the articles I write. But sometimes I need to capture more of the screen than I can see at once. For instance, I may want to ...

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Switching a phone to grayscale made scrolling feel less rewarding, so mindless browsing dropped and weekly average screen time fell below 3 hours. Grayscale created real annoyances, especially for ...

If you’ve watched a teen scroll through their phone for hours, you’ve likely wondered if this is just normal life now—or is there something deeper going on? A new study has linked high screen time and ...