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RelayRides and SnapGoods match up owners and renters; smartphones with GPS let people see where the nearest rentable car is parked; social networks provide a way to check up on people and build trust; and online payment systems handle the billing

For years, smartphones, televisions, tablets, laptops and desktops have made up a huge part of the market and driven innovation.

83% of workers say they're stressed about their jobs, nearly 50% say work-related stress is interfering with their sleep, and 60% use their smartphones to check in with work outside of normal working hours.

Civilization,then,is fine — people banging away on their smartphones are fluently using a code separate from the one they use in actual writing, and there is no evidence that texting is ruining composition skills.

83% of workers say they're stressed about their jobs, nearly 50% say work-related stress is interfering with their sleep, and 60% use their smartphones to check in with work outside of normal working hours.

Apple argues that it is fighting to preserve a principle that most of us who are addicted to our smartphones can defend: Weaken a single iPhone so that its contents can be viewed by the American government and you risk weakening all iPhones for any govern

As smartphones have multiplied, so have questions about their impact on how we live and how we work.

But consumers' preferences were already shifting toward touch-screen smartphones.

College professors are increasingly raising alarm bells about the effects smartphones, laptops, and tablets have on academic performance.

For years, smartphones, televisions, tablets, laptops and desktops have made up a huge part of the market and driven innovation.

It looks like it一after all, 2012 was the tipping point when more than half of Americans began owning smartphones.

It was a huge milestone in the development of smartphones, which are now owned by a majority of American adults and are increasingly common across the globe.

One international study found that 84% of people say they couldn't go a day without their smartphones.

Researchers have already begun to use smartphones in social scientific research, either to query people regularly as they engage in their normal lives or to record activity using the device's built-in sensors.

Smartphones offer new tools for achieving these ambitions, providing rich data about everyday behaviors in a variety of contexts.

So here's another way in which smartphones might transform the way we live and work: by offering insights into human psychology and behavior and, thus, supporting smarter social science.

The year when most Americans began using smartphones was identified as a turning point in young Americans’ level of happiness.

Twenge and her colleagues also found that across the key years of 2013-16, well-being was indeed lowest in years where adolescents spent more time online, on social media, and reading news online, and when more youth in the United States had smartphones.

Now, we have our smartphones to keep US company at the table.

Smartphones make it easier and more convenient to check reality, watch video clips, read weibo.

We've all been there: in a lift, in line at the bank or on an airplane, surrounded by people who are, like us, deeply focused on their smartphones or, worse, struggling with the uncomfortable silence.

But once we rip off the band-aid, tuck our smartphones in our pockets and look up, it doesn't hurt so bad.