Do you sleep with your mobile device? 29% of US teens now keep their mobile device in bed with them as they sleep (33% female, 26% for males). 62% of parents sleep with their device in reach of their bed. Two findings from the new report “The...
Apple’s rebranding as a privacy-first company continued this week its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Jose. At the event, Apple announced a new ‘Sign In with Apple‘ system to promote the safety, privacy and...
A new study by the American Psychiatric Association has found that over one in three US adults believe social media is impacting mental health in a negative way. Top findings of the national survey (n = 1,005, margin of error +/-3.1 percentage...
This week’s presentation by the Center for Humane Tech included some headline-grabbing stats, and a few great quotes, transcribed and source-checked here. 150. Number of times Millennials check their phone per day (Qualtrics and Accel, 2016)...
The Center for Humane Technology has just unveiled its new vision for technology to an audience of tech luminaries in San Francisco’s SFJAZZ Center. A culmination of six years of work, the ambitious agenda is to realign technology with human...
A new large-scale randomised controlled trial (RCT) has been run to assess the effects of taking a four-week break from Facebook. RCTs are typically used in clinical trials to assess the efficacy and safety of drugs and therapy. For Facebook...
Chief Medical Officers release new screentime guidelines for children and young people (infographic)
Today the United Kingdom Chief Medical Officers (CMO) have released new evidence-based guidelines on screentime and social media for children and young people (CYP). The full guidelines can be downloaded here, and a summary infographic in jpg and...
If you were in any doubt about the growing importance of wellbeing, today’s $1bn valuation of the popular wellbeing app Calm should give you pause for thought. Already the poster-child of Apple’s top app trend of the year, Calm today...
Check out your social media feed, and you’ll probably see people ‘virtue signalling‘ in one of three key areas ‘Reaching‘ – people displaying wealth, education or success‘Related‘ – people...
“I have no doubt that Instagram helped kill my daughter”. These are the words of father Ian Russell in the news this week. Ian Russell is the parent of the 14-year-old UK schoolgirl Molly Rose Russell, who recently took her own life...
A new study published today in the influential BMJ (British Medical Journal) has systematically reviewed the evidence to date on the effects of screentime on health and wellbeing in adolescents and children. The study, authored by UCL researchers Dr...
Should machines augment human autonomy, rather than eliminate it? The British Army has begun testing a new generation of emerging “Autonomous Warriors” (AKA killer robots) on the fields of Salisbury Plain in the south of England. It is...