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A new survey reveals the average person in Britain will spend 41,000 hours flicking idly between news apps and social media – and, in all likelihood, getting increasingly miserable Name: Doomscrolling ...

It's something many of us have experienced: You go on your phone to check something and - in the blink of an eye - you've been scrolling for an hour. People estimate more than a third of time on their ...

You pick up your phone to do one quick task, and suddenly 20 minutes have flown by without you even noticing. How do apps do that to you? Science journalist Michaeleen Doucleff felt like her phone had ...