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Mental Health

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

Smartphone Use Parks

Adult Health

Will your smartphone be the next doctor's office?

Smartphones Medical Uses

Parenting

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

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Children's Health

Scientists develop smartphone device that can diagnose ear infections

Smartphone Ear Infection App

Mental Health

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

Opinion

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

Smartphone Addiction Teens

Public Transit

SEPTA to debut smartphone payment for purchasing, reloading Key cards

SEPTA Key Smartphone

Fitness

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

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Prevention

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

COVID Alert NJ app

Prevention

Pennsylvania's new coronavirus contact tracing app now available

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Mental Health

A phone app may effectively treat bulimia and binge eating disorders

Eating Disorder Phone App

Health News

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

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Children's Health

Children who use screens before bedtime may have trouble sleeping

Screen time for kids

Fitness

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

Smartphone Wearable Fitness Tracker

Depression

Why teen depression rates are rising faster for girls than boys

Addiction

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

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Business

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

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Sports Betting

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

FOX Bet sports betting app

Investigations

Nearly $1 million in counterfeit smartphones seized at Philly port

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Children's Health

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

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Technology

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

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Mental Health

Having trouble concentrating? A new app can help fix that

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Prevention

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

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Wellness

5 helpful smartphone apps for migraine sufferers

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Social Media

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

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Prevention

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

Prevention

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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Adult Health

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

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Technology

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

Delaware Mobile Driver's License

Technology

Why are file sizes only getting bigger, not smaller?

Technology

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

Research

Smartphone apps could improve depression symptoms, researchers say

Technology

Apple leaker Evan Blass tweets photo of rumored iPhone 8

Parenting

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

Legislation

New Jersey lawmaker proposes ban on texting while walking

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Science

Will new Night Shift feature on iOS help you sleep?

Business

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

Trends

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

Technology

Eight must-have apps for Philadelphians

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Technology

Sony touts world's first smartphone with 4K display

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