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Darwin is one of the aspiring 'smart cities' that is adopting Chinese technology that can identify and track individuals. Add changes in Australian law, and we have the makings of a surveillance state.
Making technology such as a new smartphone that can you can roll, fold and bend requires new ways to manufacture.
In his new book, Teen Brain, David Gillespie suggests anxiety and other problems are on the rise among teenagers due to smartphones and tablets. This could be true, but his claims are overblown.
Software makers including Apple have been creating apps aimed at limiting how much time we spend using our smartphones. A behavioral scientist explains how – and whether – they work.
We blame electronic devices for our increasingly sedentary behaviours. So why not harness them to study our movement patterns and tackle urgent health crises?
Climate extremes are killing Australian trees, but we don't know where they're dying. Scientists are asking the public to use their phones to help.
Some have called reports overblown, with others going so far as to call it a myth. But the data that continues to emerge tell a different story.
Smartphones are here to stay, so why don't art teachers explore using them mindfully for visual and aural self-expression and to create intentional classroom communities?
Using smartphones and wearable devices to identify mental health symptoms and deliver psychotherapy will allow more people to access quality care, according to one psychiatrist.
Exactly 150 years after Mendeleev's classic formulation, it's time for one for the resource-hungry 21st century.
There's a lack of scientific evidence supporting claims that digital detoxes actually have any benefit to us.
Most tech companies make it difficult for users to say no to aggressive surveillance practices. But it is helpful to know about the default settings on your smartphone and how to change them.
Today's smartphones have the technology to help you take amazing photographs – so long as you do it right.
Philip Pullman can help us understand what smartphones are doing to people – here's how.
Some say the hysteria over screen time echoes parents' worries that their kids were watching too much TV in the 1980s. But new studies show there's nothing overblown about parents' growing concern.
'Heavy' media multitaskers performed worse on attention and memory tests – and some even had structural brain differences.
Experts describe their research into how smartphones collect and share private personal information with tracking companies and advertisers.
Both the Coalition and Labor agreed to new laws that will give law enforcement agencies the power to access encrypted systems.
Younger generations could learn a thing or two from their older counterparts about how to have a healthier relationship with digital technologies like social media.
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Professor of Psychology, San Diego State University
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Associate Professor in Educational Technology, CQUniversity Australia
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Professor of Strategy, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management
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Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, University of Western Australia
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Senior Lecturer in Applied Ethics & SocioTechnical Studies, Griffith University
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Professor, Computer Networking and Telecommunications, University of Salford
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Assistant Professor of Psychology, Georgetown University
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Professor of Health Psychology, University of Wollongong
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Associate Professor in Telecommunications Engineering, Swinburne University of Technology
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Lecturer in Software Engineering, Monash University
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Head of Department of Culture, Media & Creative Industries, King's College London
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Associate Professor in Physiotherapy, University of the Western Cape
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Research Fellow, University of Wollongong
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Research Scientist at the Australian E-Health Research Centre, CSIRO
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Quality of life researcher and occupational therapist, The University of Queensland
