Mindful Technology

Feel like your smartphone is controlling your life? These strategies can help you set it down and reclaim control of your time.

Posting about your life on social media is now considered the norm — but there is some information that is best kept offline. Check out these tips on online etiquette.

Private browsing, strong passwords, and VPN software are some of the steps you can take. Beyond that, government policy is needed to protect consumer privacy.

Here are two tips to prevent video gaming from becoming a time-suck.

Can outdoor cooking reinvigorate our screen-numbed senses?

Keep your relationship with your device healthy and mindful by turning it into an ally rather than an adversary. Here are three easy smartphone-addiction hacks.

Why Silicon Valley tech execs limit their own children's screen time.

As our habitual focus has narrowed to small screens, our brains have acclimated to that limited view, resulting in a dulled capacity for seeing beyond a limited perceptual field.

Here are tips to avoid being sucked into digital life — and to embrace real life.

There are a variety of polite ways to deal with excessive group messaging, says an expert.

When powerful industries and political interests push fake “grassroots” movements, real people suffer. Here's how to resist internet trolls.

Here are four ways digital devices undermine your health and wellbeing.

Learn how to regain control of your devices so they don't control you.

Journalist Manoush Zomorodi shows how exchanging your smartphone for moments of discomfort can boost creativity.

The research around smartphones and memory is complicated, but many studies have shown that writing things down improves comprehension.

Expert tips on how to create a phone-free zone in your relationship.

The medical director of Parsley Health shares her tips on developing a healthy relationship with digital devices — and reclaiming your sleep.

Editor in chief Jamie Martin on turning off her email — and reconnecting with her family.

In an always-on-call culture, researchers argue for pulling the plug on business-related connectivity outside of office hours to improve employee productivity and well-being — and France passes the first right-to-disconnect law.