Acurast has raised $5.4 million to use smartphones to power a global decentralized cloud computing network. The company raised the money in a community led investment round by premier cryptocurrency ...

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Six Tunbridge Wells schools have announced a rule to ban new Year 7s using smartphones, which is due to come into effect in September Six Kent secondary schools have announced they are banning new ...

Kids left at home with a nanny while parents are out hustling at their jobs? Give them a smartphone. Pre-teen daughter going for a sleepover for the first time? Give her a smartphone. No playdate for ...

U.S. adolescents spent more than an hour per school day using smartphones. Social media topped the list of most-used app categories, with a mean of nearly 30 minutes. New data come amid rapid changes ...

Over the past two decades, smartphones have gone from a high-tech luxury to an integral part of human life, with the total number of these devices now at 8 billion and counting. From the moment you ...

As the number of physicians using smartphones continues to rise, a report in the Washington Post predicts that protocols will soon evolve in how to use the phones with patients -- for now, common ...

HONOLULU, Dec. 5, 2025 — When a natural disaster strikes, time is of the essence if people are trapped under rubble. Conventional search-and-rescue methods use radar-based detection or employ ...