Here’s how to maintain healthy smartphone habits

Healthy smartphone use depends as much on the way you use it as how much you use it. The key is paying attention to your phone behavior.

Shelia R. Cotten, Provost's Distinuished Professor of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal Justice and Communication, Clemson University • conversation
Sept. 23, 2024 • ~6 min

How AI features in smartphones are reducing their dependence on the cloud

New processors have been crucial to hosting power-hungry AI features on phones rather than the cloud.

John Chiverton, Senior Lecturer in Electronic and Computer Engineering, University of Portsmouth • conversation
Sept. 3, 2024 • ~5 min

The dirty truth about your phone – and why you need to stop scrolling in the bathroom

Your mobile phone is 10 times dirtier than a toilet seat. Here’s what to do about it.

Primrose Freestone, Senior Lecturer in Clinical Microbiology, University of Leicester • conversation
April 24, 2023 • ~7 min

What is Fog Reveal? A legal scholar explains the app some police forces are using to track people without a warrant

Some US law enforcement agencies are using a commercial app that tracks people all day long via their phones – without a court order or oversight.

Anne Toomey McKenna, Visiting Professor of Law, University of Richmond • conversation
Oct. 17, 2022 • ~11 min

The same app can pose a bigger security and privacy threat depending on the country where you download it, study finds

Mobile apps are sometimes ‘regionalized’ to better serve the needs of users, functioning differently in, for example, China than in Canada. But some of those differences pose security and privacy risks.

Renuka Kumar, Ph.D. student in Computer Science and Engineering, University of Michigan • conversation
Sept. 27, 2022 • ~8 min

Drivers and hand-held mobile phones: extending the ban won't solve the problem – here's why

Many drivers still use mobile phones despite the fact that it’s illegal.

Helen Wells, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Keele University • conversation
Nov. 24, 2021 • ~6 min

Do you use predictive text? Chances are it's not saving you time – and could even be slowing you down

The idea seems to make sense: if the system can predict your intended word before you type it, this should save you time. But that’s not necessarily the case.

Per Ola Kristensson, Professor of Interactive Systems Engineering, University of Cambridge • conversation
Nov. 23, 2021 • ~7 min

The first mobile phone call was 75 years ago – what it takes for technologies to go from breakthrough to big time

The ubiquity of mobile phones is a defining feature of the 21st century, but it's been possible to place a phone call on the go since shortly after World War II.

Daniel Bliss, Professor of Electrical Engineering, Arizona State University • conversation
June 16, 2021 • ~7 min

Huawei’s ability to eavesdrop on Dutch mobile users is a wake-up call for the telecoms industry

Dutch mobile operator KPN was warned in 2010 that Huawei could snoop on millions of its customers' calls.

Greig Paul, Lead Mobile Networks and Security Engineer, University of Strathclyde • conversation
May 10, 2021 • ~7 min

What's cellular about a cellphone?

A professor of wireless communications explains the origins of cellular networks and how they evolved into today's 5G networks.

Daniel Bliss, Professor of Electrical Engineering, Arizona State University • conversation
Nov. 20, 2020 • ~7 min

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