Those students didn’t need to be told AI was addictive. They didn’t need a policy or a warning. They came to their own conclusions because they had been given a structured encounter with the ...

Every JRPG fan knows they need to set aside a good few dozen hours before starting a new title. It is completely normal for a main campaign to last forty, fifty, or sometimes even 100 hours, and that ...

The EU Commission plans to crack down on "addictive design" features on TikTok and Instagram. President Ursula Von der Leyen said the EU expects to introduce regulation for platforms later this year.

If we're going to have looksmaxxing, we might as well have ballmaxxing too, am I right? To be clear, I'm not advocating that either should be a thing, but since nobody is putting a stop to the one, ...

The past couple of Black Keys records have seen the Akron, Ohio, arena-garage blues-rock duo stretch out of their comfort zone a little. Their 2024 Ohio Players brought on collaborators like Beck, Dan ...

A new synthetic opioid designed to relieve pain could hold promise for replacing addictive painkillers like morphine or fentanyl in patients, a study in lab rats suggests. The research hints that the ...

As winter turns to spring on College Hill and trees begin to bud, Brown’s campus is getting greener in more ways than one. This coming Monday, passersby may see a bit of a haze as they cross the Main ...

In separate trial verdicts last week, juries found Meta and YouTube were liable for knowingly designing addictive products. Eric Goldman of Santa Clara University’s High Tech Law Institute discusses ...

Former Surgeon General Jerome Adams said Sunday that social media platforms are "specifically designed to addict" adolescents and teenagers "similar to cigarettes" were marketed to young users by ...

A court ruling with potentially massive implications has found that social media apps are intentionally designed to be addictive, and are harmful to teenage mental health. Academic studies have long ...

A Los Angeles jury found Wednesday that Meta and Youtube are liable for negligence in having knowingly designed addictive and harmful products. The platforms were found to have deliberately targeted ...