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Research has shown that smartphone addiction causes major increases in brain activity, requiring the brain to work harder to complete simple tasks.
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Research has shown that smartphone addiction causes major increases in brain activity, requiring the brain to work harder to complete simple tasks.
Instagram users reported violent and other inappropriate content showing up in their Reels feeds.
The CBS News Confirmed team shares tips you can use to tell fact from fiction online.
The move comes two weeks after Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg traveled to Florida and dined with President-elect Donald Trump in Mar-a-Lago.
"Social media is doing harm to our kids and I'm calling time on it," says Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanse.
Meta bills the new Instagram service as having built-in protections for teens that give parents peace of mind.
Surgeon General Vivek Murthy said that teens' mental health is facing an "emergency," and that social media is part of the problem.
Jeff Collinsworth said he can still hear Saturday's tornado in Valley View and his neighbor's piercing cries for help.
The wrongful death lawsuits come just two days after the same group of 19 families reached a $2 million settlement with the city of Uvalde over the Robb Elementary School massacre.
European Union regulators have opened investigations into Apple, Google and Meta under a new law designed to stop tech companies cornering digital markets.
Snaphat, TikTok, Youtube and others generated billions in profits last year from advertising targeting young users, a Harvard study shows.
The state's suit cited multiple recent criminal cases in New Mexico, including one perpetrator accused of recruiting more than 100 minor victims through Facebook.
Retton's family says she is making "remarkable" progress in her battle with a rare form of pneumonia.
The social media company debuted the new service on July 5, a day earlier than expected. It also has a sneaky way to get a download.
"For a company to hire a trans person and then not publicly stand by them is worse, in my opinion, than not hiring a trans person at all," Mulvaney said.
In particular, transgender, non-binary and gender non-conforming users are subject to hate speech and harassment on social media, the report found.
Dr. Vivek Murthy urged policymakers and tech companies to take "immediate action" to protect young people.
The bill would also require children ages 13 to 17 to receive parental consent to create a social media account.
Two execs are on leave after a collaboration with transgender TikToker ignited boycott calls, the Wall Street Journal reported.
The launch comes the same week that the company laid off about 10,000 workers.
After passing Jenner, Gomez said she would be taking a break from social media.
"Once again I am caught in the glare of ageism and misogyny That permeates the world we live in," wrote the singer on Instagram.
de Rossi walked into her birthday wearing a wedding gown, which shocked DeGeneres.
Earlier this month, Trump's presidential campaign asked Meta to reinstate him on the social media platform.
The post has more than 69 million likes, topping the previous record-holder: a 2019 photo of a brown egg.
A 45-year-old Aurora woman and her 24-year-old son have been arrested on murder charges following the shooting death of the woman's boyfriend Friday night.
Sunday will be mostly sunny and breezy with daytime highs in the upper 50s and low 60s.
A Colorado woman is facing charges related to the death of her mother after police say the mom, who had dementia, was attacked by her daughter's dogs. Police found a total of 54 dogs between two properties connected to the daughter.
Last month's fiery pileup that killed three people near Green River, Wyoming, was started by a pickup truck that lost control and hit a guardrail just outside the tunnel exit, according to federal investigators.
Popular online tools that convert '.pdf,' '.doc' and '.jpg' files to a different format are being mimicked by scammers who offer similar services but instead maliciously install malware and ransomware onto users' computers or steal private information straight from the uploaded files.
A 45-year-old Aurora woman and her 24-year-old son have been arrested on murder charges following the shooting death of the woman's boyfriend Friday night.
Sunday will be mostly sunny and breezy with daytime highs in the upper 50s and low 60s.
A Colorado woman is facing charges related to the death of her mother after police say the mom, who had dementia, was attacked by her daughter's dogs. Police found a total of 54 dogs between two properties connected to the daughter.
Last month's fiery pileup that killed three people near Green River, Wyoming, was started by a pickup truck that lost control and hit a guardrail just outside the tunnel exit, according to federal investigators.
Popular online tools that convert '.pdf,' '.doc' and '.jpg' files to a different format are being mimicked by scammers who offer similar services but instead maliciously install malware and ransomware onto users' computers or steal private information straight from the uploaded files.
Both youth and adults are part of Life-Line Colorado's mission to support people who are stuck in a cycle of violence in their local communities.
A federal judge ruled that the Elizabeth School District must put books banned from schools back on the shelves by Tuesday. Now a teacher who says she was fired over her opposition to the ban is speaking out.
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Hot across Colorado.
A Colorado family of four, including a father in the U.S. Army and his pregnant wife, is back home after surviving a massive pile-up on Interstate 70 in Kansas last week.
Colorado's Thairo Estrada broke his right wrist when he was hit by a pitch from Texas' Kumar Rocker and will be out for four to eight weeks, manager Bud Black said Friday.
George Foreman, an Olympic gold medalist and two-time heavyweight champion, competed between 1967 and 1997.
Hundreds of diehard Colorado State basketball fans packed into several restaurants and bars in Fort Collins Friday, as the Rams took on the Memphis Tigers in the first round of the NCAA tournament.
Thousands of college basketball fans from around the country descended on Denver for the first round of the NCAA men's basketball tournament.
The Colorado State Rams men's basketball team's winning streak continued when they beat the Memphis Tigers 78-70 in the first round.
Polygraph tests were also used by the Department of Homeland Security to identify potential leakers.
The 88-year-old pontiff has been battling double pneumonia in both lungs after he was admitted to the hospital on Feb. 14.
George Foreman, an Olympic gold medalist and two-time heavyweight champion, competed between 1967 and 1997.
More motorists are trading in their used Teslas for other vehicles, as the Musk-owned car company faces a "brand crisis tornado."
Chomps, a maker of protein snacks, is recalling beef and turkey sticks after consumers report metal fragments.
A federal judge ruled that the Elizabeth School District must put books banned from schools back on the shelves by Tuesday. Now a teacher who says she was fired over her opposition to the ban is speaking out.
An estimated 34,000 people gathered Friday at Civic Center Park in Denver to hear Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York push a number of progressive policies.
Polygraph tests were also used by the Department of Homeland Security to identify potential leakers.
In a primarily red county, thousands stood in a line that wrapped all through the University of Northern Colorado campus to hear a message different from the one they've been hearing from the Trump administration.
More motorists are trading in their used Teslas for other vehicles, as the Musk-owned car company faces a "brand crisis tornado."
Irene Wells didn't ask just how bad her pancreatic cancer was — she just wanted aggressive treatment so she could do "a little bit more" in her life.
Chomps, a maker of protein snacks, is recalling beef and turkey sticks after consumers report metal fragments.
HHS Secretary RFK Jr., with help from DOGE, is planning a restructuring with sweeping cuts expected at multiple agencies.
As climate change worsens pollen seasons, these U.S. cities top the list for 2025, according to a new report from the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America.
The United States fell to its lowest-ever place on the World Happiness Report, released on International Day of Happiness, while Finland remained in the top spot.
Hundreds of diehard Colorado State basketball fans packed into several restaurants and bars in Fort Collins Friday, as the Rams took on the Memphis Tigers in the first round of the NCAA tournament.
More motorists are trading in their used Teslas for other vehicles, as the Musk-owned car company faces a "brand crisis tornado."
Chomps, a maker of protein snacks, is recalling beef and turkey sticks after consumers report metal fragments.
Barnett was subjected to a "campaign of harassment, abuse and intimidation" after he raised safety concerns, lawsuit alleges.
Sweden's Klarna already offers deferred payment options to Walmart shoppers and J.P. Morgan customers.
For one Colorado father, something felt off with the family investigator working on his case case. He filed a complaint with the state.
Denver's mayor and 14 of his top advisors, appointees and lawyers nicknamed themselves "Strike Force" and communicated about the migrant crisis through an end-to end encryption app that then proceeded to automatically delete their initial conversations.
A startling discovery about a day care center employee in Centennial left parents in disbelief.
A criminal investigation was launched at Columbine High School after school officials falsely claimed a student was homeless so she could move in with a teacher.
When Tate Anderson's daughter needed a loan for a couple thousand dollars to help buy a car in February, the Englewood woman went online and stumbled on a loan that her father couldn't believe.