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Parents' Phone Addiction Affects Bond With Kids, New Study Finds

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Parents' attachment to screens and smartphones can have negative, long-lasting developmental and psychological effects on their children, according to new research. Caregivers who mismanage their devices can both exacerbate "insecure attachment" and make healthy relationships more anxious and avoidant for children, according to the findings, which were published last month in Frontiers in Psychology, a peer-reviewed journal. The study, which surveyed 600 minors in the US from 12 to 17 years old, found that kids reported feeling marginalized or neglected by parents glued to their screens. "A child with insecure attachment may lack confidence or display a lower sense of self; demonstrate difficulty with interpersonal relationships and intimacy; and possess an unwillingness to take risks necessary to achieve success," reports Bloomberg, citing one of the study's researchers. This type of behavior has become normalized: 2024 Pew data found that nearly half of U.S. teens say their parents are at least sometimes distracted by phones during interactions. "When parents were asked about their own behavior, far fewer said this was an issue," the report adds. "Still, earlier Pew data from 2020 found most parents feel their phones can interfere with quality family time, with 68% reporting being 'at least sometimes' distracted by them.

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Pourquoi les armées de House of the Dragon auraient dû ressembler à un immense vide-grenier

Dans House of the Dragon, les champs de bataille de Westeros affichent une géométrie militaire impeccable. Des milliers de soldats s'y affrontent en arborant des armures rigoureusement identiques, forgées au millimètre près selon les couleurs de leur faction. C'est visuellement grandiose, mais c'est une aberration historique totale. En coulisses, la production a préféré le fantasme de la standardisation à la réalité de la forge.

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Stockage smartphone saturé : libérer de l’espace rapidement

Votre smartphone affiche le message « espace de stockage insuffisant » ou ralentit sans raison apparente ? Un stockage smartphone saturé est un problème courant, en particulier sur les modèles avec 64 ou 128 Go. Avant d’envisager de changer d’appareil, plusieurs actions simples permettent de libérer plusieurs gigaoctets sans perdre vos photos, contacts ou applications importantes. Voici […]

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Dans la région de Manille, une hausse du salaire minimum “historique”

La hausse du salaire minimum dans la région de Manille donnera un peu d’air aux portefeuilles des travailleurs de la capitale, qui souffrent d’une inflation à plus de 6 %. Si les Philippines gagnent leur place dans le groupe des pays à revenu intermédiaire supérieur de la Banque mondiale, des problèmes structurels n’en demeurent pas moins.

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Des ouvriers tentent de réparer une digue détruite par les inondations après le passage du super-typhon Fung-wong, dans la région de Manille.
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OnePlus Is Quietly Steering Customers Toward OPPO Products

OnePlus is directing customers in some European markets toward OPPO devices, with its German website presenting OPPO as the natural upgrade path for existing users. The regional handoff adds to "months of speculation that the smartphone brand is slowly being folded into its parent company," reports Android Authority. From the report: The banner, seen on OnePlus' German website, tells visitors seeking "the experience you trust" that OPPO offers the same speed, performance, and compatibility that OnePlus users have come to expect. It hosts devices ranging from earbuds and tablets to OPPO's latest foldables, with each button taking users straight to OPPO's website. Particularly revealing is the wording. Instead of pushing future OnePlus hardware, the company focuses on the fact that OPPO's products are built on the hardware and software that users already know, while promising seamless compatibility with current OnePlus devices. In other words, if you're up for your next upgrade, OnePlus seems to be saying OPPO has what you're looking for right now. Reports in the past several months have said OnePlus has been scaling back operations in several global markets. Previous restructuring reportedly included cutting headcount, a more focused regional strategy, and greater dependence on OPPO's infrastructure. The two brands have been sharing engineering resources, software development, and supply chains for years now, particularly as OxygenOS and ColorOS have begun to look more and more alike. Interestingly, the change appears to be regional. OPPO already has a retail footprint in Germany, so the handoff is fairly straightforward. In the United States, however, things are very different, where OPPO does not officially sell smartphones. That means American OnePlus customers aren't getting the same messaging, mostly because there isn't an OPPO lineup waiting to step in.

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Accessoires waterproof vacances : coques et enceintes

Plage, piscine, sports nautiques : protéger son smartphone et ses accessoires de l’eau est devenu un réflexe indispensable pour les vacances. Housses étanches, supports waterproof, enceintes résistantes : notre sélection des meilleurs accessoires waterproof vacances disponibles en France pour profiter de l’été sans crainte. Pochettes et housses Supports vélo et moto Enceintes waterproof Écouteurs sport […]

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Smartphone qui chauffe : causes et solutions efficaces

Un smartphone qui chauffe pendant la recharge, un jeu ou une vidéo en streaming, c’est fréquent. Une légère montée en température reste normale, mais une chaleur persistante ou excessive mérite attention. Elle peut signaler une application gourmande, une mauvaise habitude de charge ou, plus rarement, un problème matériel. Voici les causes les plus courantes et […]

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Soldes d’été : les promotions se poursuivent chez La Fnac, Darty, Boulanger, Amazon…

Depuis ce mercredi 24 juin, les e-commerçants jouent le jeu des promotions avec des offres sur des milliers de produits. La tech n’échappe pas à l’événement, avec de nombreux bons plans disponibles dans plusieurs catégories. On vous aide à y voir plus clair parmi les meilleures offres des Soldes d’été 2026.

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Amazon lance enfin ses Prime Day : voici toutes les meilleures offres en direct

Les Prime Day sont officiellement lancés depuis ce mardi 23 juin à minuit, et pour quatre jours, jusqu'au 26 juin. Amazon n'avait pas vraiment attendu le coup d'envoi pour dégainer ses premières promotions réservées à ses abonnés, mais le gros des offres arrive maintenant. Voici tous les meilleurs bons plans à ne pas rater.

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Smartphone étanche été 2026 : notre sélection et guide des certifications IP

Plage, piscine, randonnée sous la pluie : l’été met votre smartphone à rude épreuve. Certification IP, résistance aux chocs, performances en conditions extrêmes, voici tout ce qu’il faut savoir pour choisir un smartphone étanche été 2026 et notre sélection des meilleurs modèles disponibles chez Bouygues Telecom. Article sponsorisé. Ce contenu inclut des liens partenaires Amazon […]

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2,000 Retired Google Pixel Phones Get a Second Life As a Private Cloud

UC San Diego researchers are working with Google to build a private cloud from 2,000 retired Pixel Fold motherboards, demonstrating how discarded smartphones could provide useful, low-cost computing capacity. "The full smartphone cluster is expected to launch this fall," reports The Register. "Depending on how well the initial phase goes, we're told the cluster could grow even larger." From the report Once the phone's motherboards have been extracted from their shells, the researchers say that the chips hiding within remain more than potent enough to be useful for a variety of tasks. In many cases, the single-threaded performance of these chips is as good as, if not better than, what you'd find from a many-cored datacenter chip. The Pixel Fold smartphones, which will form the basis of the cluster, are powered by a Google Tensor G2 processor with two 2.85 GHz Cortex-X1, two 2.35 GHz Cortex-A78 and four 1.80 GHz Cortex-A55 Arm cores, a Mali-G710 MP7 GPU, and 12 GB of system memory. Early benchmarking using the SPEC suite suggests that 25-50 phones should deliver performance similar to that of a conventional server. The major challenge, instead, is distributing workloads across multiple devices, each of which has a handful of cores of one or more varieties, and most have 8-12 GB of memory. UCSD researchers are approaching this challenge from a couple of different angles. The first is by targeting applications that can easily fit within a single device. The second is using Kubernetes to orchestrate container deployments across clusters of 25-50 phones. For this to work, the devices first need to be flashed with a Linux operating system suitable for the job. While Android makes for a great handheld experience, it is not intended for server duty. In the blog post, researchers note that Android includes functionality intended to stop rogue applications from chewing up excessive amounts of memory and draining your battery. In server context, these safety mechanisms are no longer necessary. [Ryan Kastner, an associate professor of computer science at UCSD] told us this was by no means an easy task, but the team has made steady progress toward getting Linux running smoothly on these devices, including support for the phone's onboard GPUs. Access to some functionality, like the chip's integrated tensor processing unit, remains elusive. Clustering these devices will require networking the phones together. Normally these devices would connect over cellular or Wi-Fi, but at this scale, this not only isn't practical, but also has implications for security, he explained. Instead, the team will employ PCBs that both supply power and break out wired Ethernet networking. The researchers suggest that many EdTech, grading, and research workloads commonly run by universities in the cloud are small enough to run on the cluster without issue. "The vast majority of these applications are within the capabilities of a single smartphone to host, with the standard grading backend running on small cloud instances," a blog post detailing the planned deployment reads. "Early experiments show that even a moderately-sized cluster of 20 phones is capable of supporting peak submission rates for a 75+ student class."

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