ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — Anita Akpeere prepared fried rice in her kitchen in Ghana’s capital as a stream of notifications for restaurant orders lit up apps on her phone. “I don’t think I could work in my industry without a phone,” she said as requests came in for her signature dish, a traditional fermented dumpling. … Read more
Time for a ban… this week it emerged that the government is considering banning the sale of phones to children under 16 When Steve Jobs climbed to a podium in San Francisco in 2007 to unveil the first iPhone, he promised a revolution. Inevitably, the crowd at the Macworld Conference and Expo went wild when … Read more
Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast As an older millennial, I received my first cell phone during my senior year of high school. I still remember the novelty of discovering how easy and seamless it was to contact people and download apps. At the time, no one fully understood how addictive these technologies were. Nowadays, … Read more