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Welcome to Tech News briefing. It's Monday, May 6th. I'm Alex Osala for the Wall Street Journal.

Coming up on today's show, do you feel like you'd be able to focus better if you spent less time on your phone?

W.S.J. Tech reporter Catherine Bindley broke up with some of her most addictive apps, and she

joins us to talk about how that changed her life.

And then Boeing Starliner spacecraft is set to take NASA astronauts to the International Space Station this week.

We'll hear from W.S.J. reporter Micah Madenberg about what it took to get here.

But first, for a while, W.S.J. tech reporter Catherine Bindley noticed she couldn't focus the way she used to. So for Lent

she gave up social media apps like Instagram and X, online dating apps, and even TV. She successfully made her phone boring.

And she was struck by how quickly she felt the effects of changing her habits.

She joins me now with more on her experiment.

Katie, what inspired you to make these changes?

It was largely that I was really curious what would happen to my attention span if I did this.

So I had read a book called How to Break Up with your phone and it talked about the research that's

shown the way that our attention spans have dwindled over time and the impact of smartphone use on our attention spans.

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