New York begins a 10-year study on gambling habits and addiction risks to improve prevention, treatment, and support services ...

Counting minutes is a poor way to curb phone habits. Real antidotes, experts say, include mindful parenting, curated content ...

The appeal is almost too clean. Ask for a lover, a therapist, a fictional world, or an answer to an endless chain of ...

A coach at an all-girls Catholic high school in Cincinnati is facing several charges in connection with a child porn ...

New research identifies AI chatbot addiction, highlighting how "agreeable" design and emotional attachments lead to real-world harm.

AI chatbots can grant almost any request—a celebrity in love with you, a research assistant, a book character sprung to ...

Research shows that some of the damage caused by addictive engagement with smartphones can be repaired, and it may take as ...

Perplexity unveiled Personal Computer on March 11 by inviting interested users to join a waitlist. Now the company says it’s rolling out Personal Computer to everyone on the waitlist and all Max ...

The young woman described to a jury what it was like to lose control of her life to social media. She began as a child, she said, and over time the habit expanded to fill nearly every available hour — ...

Social media platforms Instagram and YouTube have a design defect which means they are addictive, a jury in the United States has ruled. The Los Angeles jury took nearly nine days to reach its verdict ...

Do you doomscroll? If so, you’re not alone. One 2024 survey found that almost a third of American adults regularly doomscroll—that is, swipe through endless social media feeds—and millennials and Gen ...

(WXYZ) — Prediction markets are exploding online, allowing people to wager money on everything from elections to the economy to their favorite sports team — just ...