Does multitasking help us be more productive, or is it just stressing us out? Here's what experts say. (Getty Creative) The allure of multitasking is hard to ignore. Of course it sounds like a great ...

Jon LaPook, M.D. is the award-winning chief medical correspondent for CBS News. Since joining CBS News in 2006, LaPook has delivered more than 1,200 reports on a wide variety of breaking news and ...

Most of the literature coming out of education circles these days fingers multitasking as contributing to lower achievement levels among students. The essential argument goes: you’re not really ...

We all know not to text or talk on handheld phones while driving but how often do you find yourself distracted in thinking about work, or searching for loose change to pay a toll, or even eating your ...

We've all heard it hundreds of times: to work efficiently we have to single task. No multitasking. And yet, we let it slip. We end up eating lunch in front of the TV with our laptop open. We browse ...

Android’s multitasking story is finally catching up with the hardware it runs on, and the next wave of changes looks less like a tweak and more like a reset. Between new system features, aggressive ...

In the midwestern town where I grew up (a town so small that the phone line on our block was a “party line” well into the 1960s, meaning that we shared it with our neighbors and couldn’t use it while ...

Apple’s latest iPadOS update is finally catching up to how people actually use tablets, turning the iPad into a far more capable multitasking machine instead of a single‑app slab. With iPadOS 26.2, ...