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Healthy Smartphone Habits

Here's how to maintain healthy smartphone habits

Cape May goes digital and now sells virtual daily beach tags

Cape May digital tags

Stone Harbor issues 17 times more parking tickets this May than a year ago — and the police chief has no remorse

Stone Harbor Parking

Smartphone use actually increases when people visit city parks, study finds

Smartphone Use Parks

Will your smartphone be the next doctor's office?

Smartphones Medical Uses

Soothing a screaming child with a smartphone seems like an easy fix, but there are long-term consequences

Toddler Meltdown Smartphone

Children's Health

Scientists develop smartphone device that can diagnose ear infections

Smartphone Ear Infection App

How do smartphones impact mental health? Google asks Android users to help it find out

Why your kid won't put down the smartphone – it's not your fault

Smartphone Addiction Teens

SEPTA to debut smartphone payment for purchasing, reloading Key cards

SEPTA Key Smartphone

Fitness trackers get users to walk an extra mile every day, study shows

steps health benefits

New Jersey's COVID-19 contact tracing app now available to download

COVID Alert NJ app

Pennsylvania's new coronavirus contact tracing app now available

pennsylvania COVID-19 app

A phone app may effectively treat bulimia and binge eating disorders

Eating Disorder Phone App

Your smartphone soon may be able to tell if you're drunk

smartphone drunk accelerometer

Children's Health

Children who use screens before bedtime may have trouble sleeping

Screen time for kids

Looking to begin tracking your physical activity? Choose a smartphone over a wearable, Penn researcher says

Smartphone Wearable Fitness Tracker

Why teen depression rates are rising faster for girls than boys

Nearly 1 in 4 young adults have 'smartphone addiction,' study says

Smartphone addiction kids

Apple unveils iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro with camera improvements and new colors

new iphone 11 apple

Fox launches new FOX Bet app in Pennsylvania, just in time to bet on NFL games

FOX Bet sports betting app

Nearly $1 million in counterfeit smartphones seized at Philly port

Counterfeit phones

Children's Health

Phones are causing horns to grow from young people's skulls, researchers claim

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New emojis in 2019 will include interracial couples, people with disabilities, and drop of blood

new emojis 2019 same sex interracial couple

Having trouble concentrating? A new app can help fix that

decoder app peak

You should probably be cleaning your smartphone A LOT more than you are

common places for germs

5 helpful smartphone apps for migraine sufferers

smartphone unsplash

Instagram users are freaked out by test of side-swipe timeline

instagram update side scroll

Instead of a blood test, researchers developed an app on your phone to detect anemia

Don’t worry about screen time – focus on how you use technology

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Children's Health

Worry over kids' excessive smartphone use is more justified than ever before

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Children's Health

New findings add twist to screen time limit debate

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You may need to get more sleep due to social media, smartphones

Sleep Stock Photo

Driver's license on your smartphone? Delaware testing mobile IDs

Delaware Mobile Driver's License

Why are file sizes only getting bigger, not smaller?

Three ways smartphones are hurting your health – and how to combat them

Smartphone apps could improve depression symptoms, researchers say

Apple leaker Evan Blass tweets photo of rumored iPhone 8

Smartphones and babies: Why you should keep your little one away from your phone

New Jersey lawmaker proposes ban on texting while walking

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Will new Night Shift feature on iOS help you sleep?

AT&T to phase out two-year subsidies for smartphone customers

The 'phubbing' conundrum: How your smartphone habits could break - or make - your relationship

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