YouTube now lets you set a zero-minute limit to effectively hide Shorts from your feed, giving you more control without fully ...

EU chief calls for a bloc-wide push on an age verification app to protect children online. If enforced, users will have to prove their age to access legally restricted sites.

It’s called the infinite scroll – a design feature on social media, shopping, video and many other apps that continuously loads content as you reach the bottom of the page. Handy? Yes. Clever? Also ...

Did our AI summary help? A landmark social media harm case in the United States has placed Meta and Google under scrutiny over whether platform design features such as infinite scrolling and autoplay ...

It was as “easy as ABC”, claimed the lawyer prosecuting a landmark social media harm case against Meta and Google which heard closing arguments this week. The defendants were guilty, said Mark Lanier, ...

In a pocket of spare time, you may reach for your phone to scroll social media - but how often do you end up spending more time here than you planned? You might beat yourself up for losing stretches ...

The UK government has launched a public consultation on whether to ban social media for under-16s, inviting young people and their parents and guardians to submit comments ahead of a government ...

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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – The inventor of the infinite scroll, Aza Raskin, testified in New Mexico, expressing regret over his creation, which traps users in endless scrolling. Raskin explained that ...