The article quantifies the rapid rise in coffee consumption in China by linking price reductions, addiction mechanisms, and increasing work intensity into a feedback loop, while also contrasting coffee's market dynamics with tea's declining everyday relevance.
The article examines the origins, benefits, and serious technical, accessibility, and psychological drawbacks of infinite scrolling, highlighting how it fuels addiction and hampers SEO, and proposes practical design interventions—such as explicit load‑more buttons, end‑of‑feed cues, and usage timers—to help users regain control.
Researchers created Craft, an AI that learns from 25,000 annotated clips to generate Flintstones‑style videos from textual prompts, while a separate study using the Big Five model links high neuroticism, high conscientiousness, low agreeableness, and extraversion to greater risk of smart‑device addiction.
