Ian Sample talks to Dr Amy Orben, who leads the digital mental health programme at the Medical Research Council’s cognition and brain sciences unit, about why the link between teen mental health and social media is so difficult to study, what the current evidence tells us and what advice she gives to parents whose children …
Teen mental health and social media: what does the evidence tell us? – podcast Read More »
Symptoms include trembling, disorientation, tachycardia and changes to your breathing. If only there was someone you could call … Name: Nomophobia. Age: The term is 15 years old, although the condition is older. Continue reading… Symptoms include trembling, disorientation, tachycardia and changes to your breathing. If only there was someone you could call … Name: …
Lost your phone and feel your life’s falling apart? You’ve got nomophobia Read More »
How a dedicated collector rallied an international team to track down the long-forgotten 1981 title and painstakingly recreate the original cabinet Nintendo’s arcade games were hit and miss in early days, with titles such as Monkey Magic and Space Firebird failing to leave much of a lasting impression. That all changed in the summer of …
The quest for Sky Skipper, the rarest Nintendo arcade machine in the world Read More »
US justice department accuses Google of monopolizing search space in landmark case to start on Tuesday The trial in a landmark antitrust case against Google is scheduled to start on Tuesday in Washington district court over charges of monopolizing the online search space. The suit, filed by the US justice department in 2020, represents the …
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Long battery life, great sound and solid noise-cancelling make for a good buy – but Sony can’t beat Bose Sony’s latest top-end Bluetooth earbuds are smaller, lighter and more comfortable, promising class-leading noise cancelling and quality sound – but that is no longer enough to stand out from the crowd. The WF-1000XM5 cost £259 ($299.99/A$419) …
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As jobs screening US, UK and EU platforms are shifted to India, viewing ‘gore’ to clean up the web has traumatised moderators ‘I had to watch every frame of a recent stabbing video … It will never leave me,” says Harun*, one of many moderators reviewing harmful online content in India, as social media companies …
‘I log into a torture chamber each day’: the strain of moderating social media Read More »
Schools minister Lotta Edholm moves students off digital devices and on to books and handwriting, with teachers and experts debating the pros and cons Since young children went back to school across Sweden recently, many of their teachers have been putting a new emphasis on printed books, quiet reading time and handwriting practice, and devoting …
Switching off: Sweden says back-to-basics schooling works on paper Read More »
Surveying everything from hunter gatherers to Elon Musk, the Cambridge politics professor debates whether our fate is sealed by the machines we’ve created Back in 2016, a month before the EU referendum, I went along to the Future of Humanity Institute in Oxford to interview its director, the Swedish-born philosopher Nick Bostrom, who had just …
The Handover by David Runciman review – is the future out of our control? Read More »
The fast-growing US writing platform has come of age, offering all kinds of newsletters from a range of writers and experts for a subscription or even free. But how do you find the good stuff? We pick some of the best by theme Substack – the American tech platform that enables anyone to create, publish, …
From me to your inbox: 33 of the best Substack newsletters Read More »
Two studies use artificial intelligence to analyse ‘old master’ painting and return opposite verdicts Authenticating works of art is far from an exact science, but a madonna and child painting has sparked a furious row, being dubbed “the battle of the AIs”, after two separate scientific studies arrived at contradictory conclusions. Both studies used state-of-the …
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