Social media addiction has been compared to casinos, opioids and cigarettes. While there’s some debate among experts about the line between overuse and addiction, and whether social media can cause ...

An X outage that began the morning of Monday, Feb. 16 has continued to fluctuate throughout the day, impacting, at its peak, more than 40,000 social media users. At 8:30 a.m. ET on Monday, more than ...

When Victoria Hinks opens up her daughter Alexandra's room, she is met with a room filled with drawings of their family, her dog, and colorful expressions of joy. "If you ask anyone to describe 'Owl', ...

Seven months ago, University of Virginia alumnus Omar Zeineddine and fourth-year student Karam Aboul Hosn told the world they were building a social media app centered around real-time, everyday ...

An expert witness in a case brought by a California woman against Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, testified that the design features of its social media apps are addictive, ...

Russian authorities have begun restricting access to Telegram, one of the country’s most popular social media apps, as the government continues to push everyday Russians toward its own tightly ...

For more than a decade, policymakers and advocacy groups have cast teenagers’ use of social media as a looming public health crisis. This now widely accepted assumption has fueled calls for bans and ...

Gizmo is a new social platform that blends TikTok-style feeds with AI-powered vibe coding, allowing users to create and share interactive mini apps without programming skills. While safety and ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 2 (Reuters) - OpenAI is launching a desktop app for its coding tool, Codex, in hopes of seizing momentum -- and customers -- from its rivals in the AI code-generation space. OpenAI ...

BENGALURU, Jan 29 (Reuters) - India is one of the most critical growth markets for social media companies, which are now facing calls to limit access to young people, amid fears of "digital addiction" ...

UpScrolled, a rising social media platform, has shot past TikTok in the Apple App Store as TikTok users criticize the app over outages, privacy concerns and questions about censorship. TikTok’s ...

Rajesh started following the latest happenings in the world of Android around the release of the Nexus One and Samsung Galaxy S. After flashing custom ROMs and kernels on his beloved Galaxy S, he ...