Young people online are challenging themselves to sit idle, with no external distractions, and simply do nothing for a set period of time.

The 1990s rock band 4 Non Blondes is reacting to their recent spike in popularity after a mashup of their song “What’s Up?” ...

Most of us can imagine a time when we felt tethered to something or someone we knew wasn’t right for us. Perhaps a job takes too much energy, a loved one needs care that’s physically and emotionally ...

More than 800 U.S. TikTok users shared their data with The Washington Post. We used it to find out why some people become power users, spending hours per day scrolling. Each circle in the chart ...

Foreign minister Mohamad Hasan said it was likely that those taking part in the flotilla would have been detained for a longer period if they had not signed the release form. (Bernama pic) The ...

Paramount nears a deal to acquire Weiss' The Free Press, with the contrarian journalist set to take a senior role at CBS News. By Alex Weprin Senior Editor Weiss is expected to be named editor in ...

A fifth of U.S. adults now regularly get news on TikTok, up from just 3% in 2020. In fact, during that span, no social media platform we’ve studied has experienced faster growth in news consumption, ...

xAI has lifted the paywall on Grok Imagine’s image-to-video capabilities, allowing every user of the Grok app to produce brief narrated videos from text or images without charge. Key functions include ...

Natalie Jones, PsyD, is a licensed psychotherapist and advisory board member for PS's Condition Center. So why is free will trending? It could just be your standard trend-cycle coincidence, but my ...

Few surprises emerged in the Supreme Court arguments over the Protecting Americans Act, which demands that ByteDance, the Chinese Communist Party-affiliated owner of TikTok, either divest from the ...

The Supreme Court on Friday upheld a federal law that would ban the Chinese-owned social media platform TikTok just two days before the bipartisan divestiture law is slated to take effect. "There is ...

Federal banditry regarding TikTok proceeds apace. Back on April 23, president Joe Biden signed the bill that led us to the current precipice, over which 170 million American TikTok users now teeter.