Three UK has partnered with Internet Matters, as part of its commitment to promoting digital well-being and online safety for children and families. In light of the rise of social media usage amongst young people and digital safety being a key issue, the partnership underpins Threes Corporate Social Responsibility strategy to …
3-minute read If you think a TSA checkpoint is stressful, imagine how anxiety-producing it can be for a child with autism. With spring break season upon us, it’s a problem facing many families in New Jersey, the state with the highest rate of autism in the country. The Nutley-based Phoenix Center, a school for kids …
It was always going to end this way. The truth about Kate Middleton’s absence is far less funny, whimsical, or salacious than the endless memes and conspiracy theories suggested. In a video recorded and broadcast by the BBC, the princess says she has cancer, and that she had retreated from the public eye to deal …
In 1973, the writer Arthur C. Clarke formulated an adage meant to capture the relationships humans were building with their machines: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” The line became known as Clarke’s Third Law, and it is regularly invoked today as a reminder of technology’s giddy possibilities. Its true prescience, though, lay …
Listen to this article Produced by ElevenLabs and NOA, News Over Audio, using AI narration. We live in the age of the short attention span. And yet: Finding a recipe in a blog post requires first scrolling past a novella detailing the chef’s personal experience with the dish. Streaming shows run long, dragging into feature-film …
Molly Russell died by suicide in 2017 after viewing sensitive material online For confidential support, call Samaritans on 116 123 or visit samaritans.org The father of tragic Molly Russell has warned parents to beware of a popular AI chatbot website that ‘mocks’ teenagers who have depression and suicidal thoughts. Character.AI – which has 20 million …
Technology like AI already threatens to make us lonelier by chipping away at some of the small interactions with others that might seem trivial, but that have a powerful effect on our wellbeing, according to Business Insider’s prior reporting. Now, it’s easy to see how AI might make us feel more alone at work, too: …
Millennials have aged out of the internet — confused and unfamiliar with new memes and slang. “Sticking out your tongue for the rizzler” and “skibidi toilet” make 35-year-olds feel like strangers in their own home. But the real structure of the internet hasn’t changed, argues Max Read. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics in …
The first thing I ask Banu Guler, the founder of the astrology app Co–Star, is whether she can read my chart. We swap phones to look at each other’s profile. After we put our devices aside, she scrawls my astrological chart from memory into her notebook, a circle bisected by various lines like an erratically …
Social media has been sharing false claims about ventilators killing COVID patients. The People’s Voice website posted an article entitled “Official Report: Ventilators Killed Nearly ALL COVID Patients,” but there is no scientific basis for this claim. (Photo by Go Nakamura/Getty Images) Getty Images Recently, there have been unsubstantiated claims circulating on social media that …