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Occasionally making yourself inaccessible is essential to boosting focus. A survey found that always being reachable – checking emails during off days, scrolling through social media, responding to texts 24/7 – is associated with higher stress levels. This is known as “continuous partial attention,” a state of alertness largely driven by FOMO.

Parents across America continue to worry about the apps their children and teens download. Here are two apps that can give parents peace of mind.

After suffering from hearing loss, Gregory Scott became anxious when meeting with clients in public places throughout New York City. Not knowing if he could hear clients at bars or restaurants worried him.

Digital screen use may be causing negative effects on reading comprehension, attention, memory and cognitive capabilities. When screen reading, the habit is to skim, thereby reducing the time allocated to get the general gist of the content.

Hey, all you copywriters, there’s a new benchmark for speed – 20,000 lines a second.

The devices that we use are not literally listening in on our conversations. However, the services we use regularly are collecting data about our online behaviors and cross-referencing this with other data that exists about us.

Job seekers are enticed by work-from-home options according to research from staffing firm Robert Half. More than three quarters of surveyed professionals (77 percent) said they are more likely to accept a job offer if there is an option for telecommuting. Those in San Francisco and Los Angeles are most likely to seek this perk, citing long commute times.

A new joint tech initiative called the Data Transfer Project was announced by Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Twitter. Google’s blog post detailing the project explains that the primary goal is to “transfer data directly from one service to another, without needing to download and re-upload it.”

If you’re someone who loathes carrying paper, Genius Scan is the app for you. It offers the capability to take a photo of a document (saving it as a PDF), which can be exported to email or uploaded to a storage platform.

Of the estimated 3 million apps for anything and everything, there are bound to be some strange ones.

There’s a new way to learn a foreign language that more than 1 million subscribers already know about. The Babbel app for web, iOS and Android was developed by 100 linguists and language experts in Berlin. The goal: Tailor foreign language instruction to the learner’s native tongue, and get students to speak the new language as quickly as possible.

It’s no secret that the importance of STEM careers and training continues to climb. It’s also no secret that these fields are typically led by men

With the new “8” products around the corner – iPhone & Samsung primarily– do you NEED to upgrade your phone for the newest product? CNBC had an article earlier this year saying no, you don’t have to upgrade often. Here are some ideas for when you should upgrade:

Governor Asa Hutchinson and the Arkansas Economic Development Commission announced the new job-seeking website for the technology sector, www.ARTechJobs.com.

Last summer, The Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences and the Arts (ASMSA) launched the Coding Arkansas’ Future initiative to expand computer science education and provide professional education opportunities, including mentorship for teachers. This spring, ASMSA was awarded a grant from Google’s CS4HS program offering an online course teachers can enroll in as learners for no cost.

From the company formerly known as Snapchat comes a new pair of cool shades. Snap Inc. is releasing its first wearable technology in the form of sunglasses – Spectacles.

Two students at Appalachian State University wanted to make a more positive world. Dreaming of bringing positivity to people all across the world through smartphones, they developed Promoting Motivation, or ProMo.

We see spam in our inbox every day. What if the next email you receive from your CEO is a fake? There is a new financial scheme called CEO Fraud, and it has already cost organizations over $2 billion.

Extra battery packs provide peace of mind on long flights and campsites, allowing us to resurrect multiple devices without an outlet. But most battery packs are limited to charging small devices, and when not in use become unhandy junk.