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on tech addiction House to get election security briefing MORE (D - Colo.)
Not exact matches
More from Modern Medicine: Disturbing YouTube content reveals the dark side of
tech on young minds Military veterans defy Jeff Sessions, fight for medical marijuana to kick opioid
addiction
And just as major food corporations sell processed foods that are loaded with added sugar and chemicals meant to keep people eating, Turkle and other
addiction experts say big
tech companies have been repeatedly accused of designing their apps to maximize the time people spend
on them.
Blockchain for good, harnessing AI, VR and robotics,
tech addiction, restraining the net giants are just some of the issues
on the agenda (including the ongoing Facebook and Cambridge Analytica debacle, with Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes in attendance).
Warren Bickel, an
addiction neuroscientist with the Virginia
Tech Carilion Research Institute, will brief a group of White House officials
on the latest behavioral decision science underlying drug
addiction and intervention, particularly in terms of opioids.
Online shopping, repeatedly checking Facebook updates, and getting sucked into Pinterest for hours
on end are definite hazards of web life, but now there's a new one: an
addiction to a certain
tech gadget.
Tiny house as a
tech - zone: All too often, our technology can end up controlling us rather than the other way around, as our abundance of internet - connected gadgets and always -
on WiFi in our homes can lead to a pretty serious case of
tech addiction, which may wreak havoc
on our personal and family lives.
Designed
on the model of anti-smoking drives, the group, along with the nonprofit media watchdog group Common Sense Media, is also planning an anti-
tech addiction lobbying effort and an ad campaign, titled The Truth About
Tech, the report said.
I'm going to set Lauren Goode loose, once more,
on the unsuspecting attendees — who pay us to be here — to ask them more questions about
tech addiction.
Hot
on the heels of an open letter from investors urging Apple to do more to protect children from smartphone
addiction, the
tech giant has recently dedicated a page
on their website to families.
Hot
on the heels of an open letter from investors urging Apple to do more to protect children from smartphone
addiction, the
tech giant...