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I sit down at the table, move my napkin to my lap, and put my phone on the table face-down. I am at a restaurant, I am relaxed, and I am about to start lying to myself. I’m not going to check my phone, I tell myself. (My companion’s phone has appeared face-down on the table, too.) I’m just going to have this right here in case something comes up.

Of course, something will not come up. But over the course of the next 90 minutes I will check my phone for texts, likes, soundlala push alerts at every pang of boredom, anxiety, relaxation, satiety, frustration, or weariness. I will check it in the bathroom and when I return from the bathroom. I don’t really enjoy this, but it is very interesting, even if some indignant and submerged part of my psyche moans that I am making myself dumber every time I look at it. As, in fact, I am.

A smartphone can tax its user’s cognition simply by sitting next to them on a table, or being anywhere in the same room with them, suggests a study published recently in the Journal of the Association for Consumer Research. It finds that a smartphone can demand its user’s attention even when the person isn’t using it or consciously thinking about it. Even if a phone’s out of sight in a bag, even if it’s set to silent, even if it’s powered off, its mere presence will reduce someone’s working memory and problem-solving skills.

These effects are strongest for people who depend on their smartphones, such as those who affirm a statement like, “I would have trouble getting through a normal day without my cell phone.”

But few people also know they’re paying this cognitive smartphone tax as it plays out. Few participants in the study reported feeling distracted by their phone during the exam, even if the data suggested their attention was not at full capacity.

“We have limited attentional resources, and we use some of them to point the rest of those resources in the right direction. Usually different things are important in different contexts, but some things—like your name—have a really privileged status,” says Adrian Ward, an author of the study and a psychologist who researches consumer decision-making at the University of Texas at Austin.

“This idea with smartphones is that it’s similarly relevant all of the time, and it gets this privileged attentional space. That’s not the default for other things,” Ward told me. “In a situation where you’re doing something other than, say, using your name, there’s a pretty good chance that whatever your phone represents is more likely to be relevant to you than whatever else is going on.”

In other words: If you grow dependent on your smartphone, it becomes a magical device that silently shouts your name at your brain at all times. (Now remember that this magical shouting device is the most popular consumer product ever made. In the developed world, almost everyone owns...

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The young rapper who has gained a cult following over the years particularly because of his viral covers on social media, links up with producer Emmanuel Tonez on “Double double”. A thumping hip-hop track with a heavy street-hop yearning, as “Mr. One Time” delivers a bouncy call and response hook and all around stellar cut.

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Nigerian singer, Zlatan Ibile nearly got sent to the great beyond by a rival cult that was present at a concert he was billed to perform. The singer chanted his cult praise on stage while performing, thus angering the rival cult.



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He was also called out by Danny-S for the same reason. While things were still in the process of getting settled, Zlatan stepped on wrong toes.

During the 4th edition of DJ Kaywise's “Joor concert”, the “Zanku” crooner while performing on stage, chanted what many people perceived to be the praises of his fraternity association leading

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A young South African couple have caused quite a stir on social media after news of their marriage went viral.

A young boy of 16 has decided to tie the knot with his 15-year-old girlfriend and his family are in full support of the union.

According to Daily Sun, the young man Siyacela Dlamuka, is set to walk down the aisle with his bride Thando Mathebula, on April 13, 2019.

The excited groom-to-be revealed that he is very happy about his choice of bride because “she is different and special”. He also added that he cannot wait to officially make her his bride.

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