A new report has found that gaming addiction in China has significantly fallen year-over-year after the country brought in measures to limit play time to just a few hours per week.
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Instagram has increased the lowest daily limit to 30 minutes. Prior, you could set the app usage limit to 15 minutes but that option is no longer available. The move should help bolster revenues.
A Twitter user, known as Dorothy, has been providing comedy for users on Twitter this month after getting her phone confiscated by her mother. She used unlikely devices afterward to continue tweeting.
The videos games industry has asked the World Health Organization to reconsider its addition of gaming addiction on to its list of mental health disorder. The addition came at the start of 2018.
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China has resumed issuing licenses to game publishers after it spent the last nine months figuring out how to filter out extreme violence and how to limit games being too addictive for children.
Two Apple shareholders have asked the company in a public letter to do more to research and tackle children's addiction to iPhones. One proposal it mentioned was a yearly report of progress made.
The World Health Organisation has for the first time listed gaming addiction as a disorder. It'll be added to the International Classification of Diseases manual due to be published this year.
A man's recent addiction to Fallout 4 has left him without a job, wife, friends and in bad health. He is now suing the makers of the game for emotional distress.
Internet addiction is becoming a problem in Asian countries, especially China where a 19 year old has cut off his own hand in an effort to 'cure' himself of this problem.
While it's not uncommon for people with problems to blame others before accepting and dealing with their issues, who would have thought that Apple would be accused of making a person addicted to porn?
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