In a world where every app competes for our attention, it's no wonder phone addiction is a growing complaint. While there are many gadgets designed to enhance focus, your phone can be a productivity ...

The Brick is a physical and digital device that can block apps on your phone, but does it really work? Five NBC Select staffers put The Brick to the test to find out.

I don’t remember exactly when it happened. Probably around 2012, when I downloaded Instagram to my iPhone and posted my first heavily filtered image. In the years that followed, the iPhone, which had, ...

As social media continues to favour endlessly addictive short-form videos and infinite scrolling, it’s little surprise that many of us are starting to feel uncomfortably close to the humans in Wall.E.