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A regular screen for most functions, a bigger screen for when you need to go in-depth.

Samsung’s big foldy phone is back with a sleek update

The Fold7 may look barely changed on paper, but there are plenty of tweaks here to consider.

  • Tim Biggs

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American artist Laura Allcorn (yellow top) with her work Pledge Drive For Attention.

Hopelessly distracted by you: Can we break our love affair with tech?

Doomscrolling, video autoplay and swiping left, right, up and down is devouring everyone’s attention. A new exhibition asks how we might break the habit.

  • Karl Quinn
The use of devices by parents has been linked to poorer child development, according to multiple studies. Part of the equation, experts say, is eye contact.

What happens if you don’t look your child in the eyes?

Screen time and social media use among kids is a hot topic, but experts say parental device use can also hinder child development, and affect their adulthood.

  • Bronte Gossling
The Nothing Phone 3 is the British company’s most high-end smartphone to date.

The anti-doomscroll phone that wants to mix it up with Apple

A British firm which has made a major splash in the mid-range phone and earbuds markets is going premium – and some fans don’t like that.

  • Tim Biggs
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Made in the US? Trump’s MAGA mobile is just another phoney deal

Trump has threatened Apple with punitive tariffs if it doesn’t make its phones in America. His family has launched its own phone which, despite claims otherwise, isn’t built in America.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
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McGee says that by 2015, Apple was investing $55 billion a year into China.

‘China has Apple by the balls’: How the rising superpower captured the tech giant

Apple Inc reaped staggering profits by outsourcing its manufacturing – but its “epic” technology transfer has consequences, says one long-time observer.

  • Greg Callaghan

Inside the secretive labs where Apple’s torturers put iPhones to the test

At an unmarked facility in California, tens of thousands of devices a year are dropped, dunked and dismantled.

  • Tim Biggs
Apple chief executive Tim Cook greets developers at WWDC on Tuesday.

All the new features coming to your Apple device

Apple’s latest developer conference covered a huge number of features coming soon to the iPhone, iPad and other devices.

  • Tim Biggs
Wait Mate co-founder Jessica Mendoza-Roth said smartphones “are like pokies in children’s pockets”.

Gaming, smartphone addiction starts in primary school as daily screen times soar

The study of students in years four to eight found the average daily screen time for junior high schoolers was nine hours a day.

  • Jordan Baker

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