Blake has over a decade of experience writing for the web, with a focus on mobile phones, where he covered the smartphone boom of the 2010s and the broader tech scene. When he's not in front of a ...

Google's Circle to Search tool just got a bit more useful, as it can now continuously translate text while scrolling. Until now, people had to restart the process every time the content on the screen ...

Earn by scrolling: New job turns social media habit into a profession In an unusual twist of the digital age, the once-dreaded habit of doomscrolling is now being turned into a full-time job.

You’re reading Infinite Scroll, Kyle Chayka’s weekly column on how technology shapes culture. The breakfast photo is the ur-text of the narcissistic internet, a bit of content that no one else is ...

The scroll previously known only as PHerc. 172 was written by the Epicurean philosopher Philodemus. Vesuvius Challenge / Bodleian Libraries, Oxford University In the 1750s, an Italian farmer digging a ...

Google is rolling out a redesign of the Gemini web app’s side panel with some nice quality-of-life improvements. Starting at the top, Google has removed the pill around the “New chat” button so it’s ...

In July 2024, Diamond's powerful light enabled a team from the nearby Bodleian Libraries to scan a 2,000-year-old Herculaneum scroll. The scroll, one of three housed at the libraries, was studied on ...

“Superbloom,” by Nicholas Carr, and “The Sirens’ Call,” by the MSNBC host Chris Hayes, argue that we are ill equipped to handle the infinite scroll of the information age. Nonfiction “Superbloom,” by ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. There are times when, deep into a scroll through my phone, I tilt my head and realize that I’m not even sure what app I’m on. A video takes up my entire screen.

Guess how far the average person scrolls in a lifetime: about 3,400 miles. That's roughly the distance between New York and London if you fly over the Atlantic Ocean! Crazy, right? We stick to our ...