Technology and Covid lockdowns blamed for rise in eating disorders and insomnia among the young It was while browsing on social media at the age of 13 that Hannah realised she had an eating disorder. Seeing other girls and women talking about their experiences, she thought: “This is me.” Since that moment, the now 17-year-old …
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Senators highlighted research revealed in the Wall Street Journal showing how the photo app could affect girls’ body image and self esteem Antigone Davis, Facebook’s global head of safety, faced a grilling before the US Congress on Thursday in a hearing examining the impacts of the company’s products on children. Thursday’s hearing of the Senate …
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Leeds PlayhouseFor a tale of the undead, Imitating the Dog’s inventive blend of live theatre and tech is bursting with life Having tackled zombies in its most recent production, Night of the Living Dead – Remix, the Leeds company Imitating the Dog now takes on Dracula. The smart money would be on Frankenstein next to …
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PlayStation 5; Kojima Productions/SonyThe superstar developer’s latest is still a post-apocalyptic folly – but is now available in photorealistic splendour with quirky haptic feedback features It was always inevitable, considering game designer Hideo Kojima’s cinephile tendencies, that Death Stranding would get a director’s cut. What’s surprising about this revised PlayStation 5 version of the game …
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Exclusive: UK producer Kate Wilson hopes it will force film executives ‘to take their head out of the sand’ When she was 24, the film producer Kate Wilson was sexually harassed at work so badly, she left the United States and returned to the UK, at a considerable impact to her career. “That was 21 …
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Recent Wall Street Journal reports reveal that Instagram could affect teenage girls’ body image and self esteem Antigone Davis, Facebook’s global head of safety, will face a grilling before the US Congress on Thursday in a hearing examining the impacts of the company’s products on children. Thursday’s hearing comes after a series of Wall Street …
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Regulators lack the resources to certify the safety of goods sold online by third parties The UK’s product safety regime is not up to the job of preventing a tragedy such as the Grenfell Tower fire as shopping moves online and regulators take on new responsibilities following Brexit, MPs have warned. A third of products …
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Moscow warns of retaliation against video-sharing platform after RT channels blocked over Covid disinformation Russia on Wednesday threatened to block YouTube and take other retaliatory measures, after the US video-sharing platform blocked the German-language channels of state broadcaster RT. Moscow has recently been ramping up pressure on foreign tech giants as it seeks greater control …
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For a niche but passionate corner of the internet, video games are not simply things to play, but structures to be torn down and rebuilt – together In the summer of 2017, the gamer Beck Abney sat in his room playing Mario Kart 64. What happened next has been described as one of the greatest …
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AI has taken the place of astrology as humans have worked through the millennia for knowledge of when it will rain Google uses AI to try to improve two-hour rain forecasts Recent scientific breakthroughs allowing forecasters to better predict the weather are just the latest in a long line of meteorology developments. Google’s artificial intelligence …
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