These days, you don’t really need to factory reset your smartphone, as they’ve become smart enough to not need that step taken when after a few months or even a few years. So the most likely reason is going to be to sell your smartphone, or trade it in. But before we get into how to do that, we need to talk about a few things first, that you need to be aware of....

“She just makes me so anxious,” she said, gritting her teeth. I’ve been there myself. Lots of times. Seriously toxic relationships call for us to cut off contact altogether; others, though also toxic, seem impossible to avoid. Perhaps you have a constantly criticizing mother-in-law, or a neighbor who seems emotionally stuck in seventh grade. Maybe it’s a boss who belittles you when he’s stressed—or someone who is so under your skin you hold entire conversations with them in your head....

Many aspects of technology hijack our attention so that we become disconnected from the present moment. We can easily lose track of time and our surroundings. We might be caught up in habitual reactions rather than making time for thoughtful responses. We might communicate in ways that do not actually serve our basic human needs or those of others. We can start to have a sense of not being fully connected to our lives and the people in them....

Remarkably, feelings about one situation rarely color our first impressions of new people or situations that we encounter soon afterward. We seem to have a built-in regulatory mechanism to protect us from this “emotional spillover,” and a recent study published in the journal Psychological Science explored a specific brain area that might be responsible. This region is known to be involved in controlling our impulsive urges, like when we choose healthier food over junk food....

The Huawei P50 Pocket & P50 Pro global launch date is official The Huawei P50 Pocket & P50 Pro global launch date is official The Huawei P50 Pocket is actually the company’s upcoming competitor to the Galaxy Z Flip 3. The device got announced in China at the end of December, so we didn’t have to wait long for it to arrive to more markets. That being said, the Huawei P50 Pro is a different story....