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Passive screen time is dulling your life
Peak Web June 4, 2025By: Ana Maria Tofan, SFU Student How often have you caught yourself scrolling while walking 10 steps to the kitchen for a snack? If you’re part of the generation of young adults who did not grow up glued to a screen (like me), you might like to think you’re holier than thou for having “played outside” as a kid. When tech companies spend billions of dollars to engineer the most addictive algorithms to keep our attention, is it really a surprise when it works? The reality is that these companies will stop at nothing to lock eyes into the endless…
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SFU researcher publishes paper on combating online child exploitation
Peak Web October 26, 2022By: Hannah Kazemi, Staff Writer Richard Frank, SFU researcher and associate professor for the School of Criminology, recently conducted a study to identify strategies to combat online child exploitation. The Peak sat down with Frank to learn more about his…
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