You grab your phone and in that first swipe, you see someone traveling the world. Why aren’t you on vacation? Swipe again, and someone is living off the grid. Wow, shouldn’t you get rid of your laptop ...

A.I. search tools, chatbots and social media are associated with lower cognitive performance, studies say. What to do? Credit...Derek Abella Supported by By Brian X. Chen Brian X. Chen is The Times’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While not a clinical diagnosis, the term ‘brain rot’ captures the burnt out feeling that follows an online scrolling session If ...

The term "brain rot" refers to how low-quality internet content may slow your brain function. It's usually tied to watching specific types of content, usually nonsensical, embarrassing, or weird. But ...

The mechanisms that keep you mindlessly scrolling may be similar to those behind addictions such as drug and alcohol use or gambling The mechanisms that keep you mindlessly scrolling may be similar to ...