12 Horrifying Photos of the Tech Industry Apple Never Wants You to See | U.S. Uncut | September 2015 As the American public continues to depend more on digital technology to run society, the US tech industry is booming. New gadgets are flooding the market each year, and the top tech companies — Apple, Microsoft, Google, IBM, HP, and Cisco,
The invisible addiction: Cell-phone activities and addiction among male and female college students | Journal of Behavioral Addictions | August 2014 Across all of the 24 cell-phone activities, females reported spending significantly more (p < .02) time on their phones per day (600 minutes) [10 hours] than males (458.5 minutes) [7.5 hours].
Why you should take notes by hand — not on a laptop | Vox | March 2015 “Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer, the psychologists who conducted the new research, believe it’s because students on laptops usually just mindlessly type everything a professor says. Those taking notes by hand, though, have to actively listen and decide what’s important — because they
The dystopian lake filled by the world’s tech lust | BBC | April 2015 Hidden in an unknown corner of China is a toxic, nightmarish lake created by our thirst for smartphones, gadgets and green tech, discovers Tim Maughan. “It feels like hell on Earth. Welcome to Baotou, the largest industrial city in Inner Mongolia. I’m here with a group