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A US woman has warned against a TikTok trend after it landed her in the hospital. Lana Clay-Monaghan was shopping with her children at a Southern California Target when a group of teens, influenced by TikTok, played a prank on her that landed her in the hospital . She was looking at baby products when everything suddenly went dark. Something had been placed over her head. Watch the latest News on Channel 7 or stream for free on 7plus >> Confused, alone and frightened, the mother of two twin boys could hear people around her laughing. “I immediately felt something come over me — a human presence behind me,” she said. “I started screaming. It was really abrupt. It really scared me. “When I turned around, it was a group of male individuals filming me. “I know they were filming me because the (camera) light was on. “They all had their phones and they were laughing.” US mum Lana Clay-Monaghan has issued a warning after she fell victim to a TikTok trend. Credit: Facebook Security ca...

Spotify launched 'Niche Mixes', a set of personalised playlist s based on familiar songs and recommendations into specific categories. An expansion of Spotify's Mixes playlist feature, the new addition enables users to have more control over what they listen to. Announcing the feature launch, the platform said, “No matter the moment or occasion, you’ll receive a personalized Mix rooted in familiarity, combining music from artists, genres, and decades you already know and love with songs we think you’ll enjoy that match the moment.” The feature will neatly sort out music preferences into playlist s automatically, especially for those too lazy to do so. Users can also manually search for specific words for better recommendations like, 'activities, vibes, aesthetics, etc'. Spotify Mixes are available globally to Free and Premium users, with a selection of mixes chosen by Spotify under ''Made for you' hub. Each mix is updated ...

Twitter Inc said on Wednesday that there was no evidence that data recently being sold online was obtained by exploiting a vulnerability in the company's systems. Twitter said the data of 5.4 million of the accounts had been compromised by a bug it discovered early last year, which it previously fixed and disclosed over the summer. Another 600 million pieces of user data "could not be correlated with the previously reported incident, nor with any new incident," Twitter said in a blog post. "There is no evidence that the data being sold online was obtained by exploiting a vulnerability of Twitter systems. The data is likely a collection of data already publicly available online through different sources," it said. The social media company told users in August last year that a system vulnerability revealed Twitter accounts of users by submitting their email address or phone number, after the company learnt about it through a bug bounty program months earl...

Levi's has partnered with AI company for computer- generate d fashion model s to “ supplement human model s.” The “digital transformation journey” of diversity, equity, inclusion and sustainability, as the company claims, will merely hire a robot to generate the appearance of diversity. Founded in 2019, Levi-Straus is collaborating with Amsterdam-based digital model studio Lalaland.ai for this new initiative. The company is aiming for customers to see what fashion items would look like on “hyper-realistic” model s “of every body type, age, size and skin tone.” In its announcement, the company said, “We see fashion and technology as both an art and a science, and we’re thrilled to be partnering with Lalaland.ai, a company with such high-quality technology that can help us continue on our journey for a more diverse and inclusive customer experience.” Though Levi's claims that “AI will likely never fu...

Experts have raised the alarm over a diet trend on social media platforms including TikTok which they say is spreading “ Health misinformation”. “What I Eat In A Day”, or WIEIAD, videos online are incredibly popular, but social media users are warned to take these videos with a grain of salt. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Researcher warns of dangers of ‘What I Eat In A Day’ trend . Watch the latest news and stream for free on 7plus >> WIEIAD, videos have been popular on social media for years and first grew in prominence on YouTube. These videos feed consumers an endless dialogue of diet culture, promoting diets including those with no sugar, or that are high in protein, or with a focus on weight loss. A study from the University of the Sunshine Coast found the videos were doing more harm than good. “What we found was there was actually a lot of health misinformation in these videos,” Dr Naomi Smith, a sociology lecturer at USC said. These videos often recommend now-debunked trend s...

TikTok's chief executive will tell lawmakers the Chinese-owned short video app with more than 150 million American users has never, and would never, share US user data with the Chinese government amid growing US national security concerns. "TikTok has never shared, or received a request to share, US user data with the Chinese government. Nor would TikTok honor such a request if one were ever made," CEO Shou Zi Chew will testify on Thursday, according to written testimony posted on Tuesday by the House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee. He added that TikTok's parent company ByteDance is not owned or controlled by any government or state entity. "Let me state this unequivocally: ByteDance is not an agent of China or any other country," Chew will say to the committee. TikTok's critics fear that its US user data could be passed on to China's government by the app and prompted growing calls to ban the a...

Experts are warning the threat of an asteroid striking Earth may be more serious than previously thought. James Garvin, chief scientist of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Centre, said his team had strong concerns that previous impact sites actually stretched tens of kilometres further than believed, Science.org reported. “It would be in the range of serious crap happening,” he said bluntly. Watch the latest News on Channel 7 or stream for free on 7plus >> Garvin is presenting new research on asteroid s at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Texas. The research used new high-resolution satellite imagery, which he and his colleagues used to identify large rings around three impact craters. Garvin suggested that each impact or ring was substantially more violent than previously thought. He speculated they may have been 10 times more destructive than the largest nuclear bomb ever detonated, enough to blow part of the planet’s atmosphere into space. “Such topographic data pe...

Alphabet Inc's Google on Tuesday began the public release of its chatbot Bard, seeking users and feedback to gain ground on Microsoft Corp in a fast-moving race on artificial intelligence Technology . Starting in the US and UK, consumers can join a waiting list for English-language access to Bard, a program previously open to approved testers only. Google describes Bard as an experiment allowing collaboration with generative AI, Technology that relies on past data to create rather than identify content. The release last year of ChatGPT, a chatbot from the Microsoft-backed startup OpenAI, has caused a sprint in the technology sector to put AI into more users' hands. The hope is to reshape how people work and win business in the process. Just last week, Google and Microsoft made a flurry of announcements on AI, two days apart. The companies are putting draft-writing Technology into their word processors and other collaboration software, as...

Several high-risk security flaws have been discovered in Samsung Galaxy smartphones that could allow hackers to easily target the devices. Attackers only need to know the victim’s phone number to exploit the bugs without the user knowing anything is wrong, warns Google’s Project Zero team. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Best new budget phones 2023. Watch the latest News on Channel 7 or stream for free on 7plus >> Google’s Project Zero security researchers study flaws in hardware and software systems to find the bugs and fix them. In a March update, Project Zero’s Tim Willis said researchers found at least 18 security flaws that had not yet been fixed in Samsung’s Exynos modems, which are used in the company’s flagship Galaxy devices. He warned the four most serious vulnerabilities (CVE-2023-24033, CVE-2023-26496, CVE-2023-26497 and CVE-2023-26498) allow for “internet-to-baseband remote code execution” by hackers. “Tests conducted by Project Zero confirm that those four vulnerabiliti...

BERLIN: Mercedes will invest billions of dollars to modernise its plants in China, Germany and Hungary over the coming years, magazine Automobilwoche reported, as the carmaker prepares to switch to electric vehicles and cut emissions. The European Union has set a goal to halve CO2 emissions per passenger car over their life cycle by the end of this decade compared to 2020 and is seeking agreement on a 2035 deadline to end the sale of fossil fuel cars. Mercedes has said it will be ready to go electric by the end of the this decade, where market conditions allow. "We are invest ing a three-digit million amount per plant for the run up," production manager Joerg Burzer was quoted as saying by the magazine, adding that these invest ments will be at the plants in Beijing, Rastatt in Germany and Kecskemet in Hungary. The carmaker will start work on the Rastatt plant over the coming months and will produce the first model of the compact vehicle platform MMA ...

The US government has received more than 350 new reports of what it terms “unidentified aerial phenomenon”, or UFOs, since March 2021 – roughly half of which are unexplained, an Office of the Director of National Intelligence report released on Thursday reveals. The Pentagon office responsible for tracking and studying the sightings has preliminarily identified 163 of the reports as “balloon or balloon-entities”, according to the report. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: US man claims he has ‘alien technology’. Watch the latest News on Channel 7 or stream for free on 7plus >> A handful of other reports have been attributed to drones, birds, weather events or airborne debris such as plastic bags. But “initial characterisation does not mean positively resolved or unidentified,” the report cautioned. And the remaining 171 report ed sightings of UAPs or UFOs continue to be unexplained. “Some of these uncharacterised UAP appear to have demonstrated unusual flight characteristics or performance...

You may know that being adequately hydrated is important for day-to-day bodily functions such as regulating temperature and maintaining skin health. But drinking enough water is also associated with a significantly lower risk of developing chronic diseases, a lower risk of dying early or lower risk of being biologically older than your chronological age, according to a National Institutes of Health study published this week in the journal eBioMedicine. WATCH THE VIDEO: Hydration can significanly impact your physical health. For more Health & Wellbeing related news and videos check out Health & Wellbeing >> “The results suggest proper hydration may slow down ageing and prolong a disease-free life,” study author Natalia Dmitrieva said in a news release from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute’s Laboratory of Cardiovascular Regenerative Medicine. Learning what preventive measures can slow down the ageing process is “a major challenge of preventive medicine”, the st...

The Biden administration has demanded that TikTok's Chinese owners divest their stakes in the popular video app or face a possible US ban, the company told Reuters on Wednesday. The move is the most dramatic in a series of recent steps by US officials and legislators who have raised fears that TikTok's US user data could be passed on to China's government. ByteDance-owned TikTok has more than 100 million US users. It is also the first time under the administration of Democratic President Joe Biden that a potential ban on TikTok has been threatened. Biden's predecessor, Republican Donald Trump, had tried to ban TikTok in 2020 but was blocked by US courts. TikTok spokesperson Brooke Oberwetter told Reuters that the company had recently heard from the US Treasury-led Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), which demanded that the Chinese owners of the app sell their shares, and said otherwise they would face a possib...

Twitter Inc is offering free advertise ments to brands that advertise on its platform , an attempt to woo brands back to the social-media platform , which has seen its ad Business deteriorate following Elon Musk's takeover, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. Twitter is dangling free ad space by offering to match advertise rs' ad spending up to $250,000, the report said, citing emails reviewed by the Journal. Twitter did not respond to Reuters request for a comment after Business hours. Source: https://thefoxposts.com/twitter-offers-free-ads-to-brands-that-advertise-on-its-platform-TheFOXposts-9848.html?utm_source=blogger_source&utm_medium=blogger_medium&utm_campaign=blogger_cam Category: Technology Post by: TheFOXposts.Com

As the world celebrates International Women’s Day (IWD), leading world bodies have given a fresh insight into what the global event stands for, this year’s theme and the issues that activists are focusing on. The UN’s theme this year is “DigitALL: Innovation and Technology for gender equality .” This year’s digital equality theme highlights how technology is crucial to advancing rights but a growing digital gender gap is impacting everything from women’s job opportunities to safety online. Watch the latest News on Channel 7 or stream for free on 7plus >> According to the UN, 259 million fewer women have access to the internet than men, and women are largely underrepresented in Science , Technology , engineering and mathematics careers. “Bringing women into Technology results in more creative solutions and has greater potential for innovations that meet women’s needs and promote gender equality ,” says the UN’s website. “Their lack of inclusion, by contrast, comes with massive ...

Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk on Tuesday said that the next generation small car the company is working on would operate mostly in autonomous mode, similar to a promise he made in 2020. On Tuesday he said there was a clear path to delivering a car that cost half as much to build as Tesla's Model 3 sedan, but he offered no details about timing or models. At the 2020 event, Musk said he was "confident" that Tesla Inc would make a small , compelling $25,000 electric car that was fully autonomous , within about three years.   Source: https://thefoxposts.com/tesla-s-next-generation-smaller-car-to-operate-autonomously-TheFOXposts-14738.html?utm_source=blogger_source&utm_medium=blogger_medium&utm_campaign=blogger_cam Category: Technology Post by: TheFOXposts.Com

Warmer Arctic temperatures are thawing the region’s permafrost — a frozen layer of soil beneath the ground — and potentially stirring viruses that, after lying dormant for tens of thousands of years, could endanger animal and human health. While a pandemic unleashed by a disease from the distant past sounds like the plot of a sci-fi movie, scientists warn the risks — though low — are underappreciated. Chemical and radioactive waste that dates back to the Cold War, which has the potential to harm wildlife and disrupt ecosystems, may also be released during thaws. Watch the latest News on Channel 7 or stream for free on 7plus >> “There’s a lot going on with the permafrost that is of concern, and (it) really shows why it’s super important that we keep as much of the permafrost frozen as possible,” NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory climate scientist Kimberley Miner said. Permafrost covers a fifth of the Northern Hemisphere, having underpinned the Arctic tundra and boreal forests of Ala...

Apple Inc is backing a music startup launched by one of its former executives. The company, called Gamma, is the brainchild of former Apple Music Global Creative Director Larry Jackson and veteran music executive Ike Youssef. It positions itself as an alternative to traditional record labels. "The artists shaping today's culture not only create music , but also video, film, podcasts, fashion, and more," Jackson said in a statement Wednesday. "They shouldn't have to jump through multiple hoops to express themselves. Gamma says it will support content creation -- whether that is music , video or podcasts, and provide audio and video distribution through Vydia, a company it acquired in December 2022. Early projects will include work with Snoop Dogg and his Death Row catalog, Rick Ross, and Naomi Campbell, Gamma said. It also plans to collaborate with Todd Boehly's Eldridge, whose investments include the Los Angeles Dodgers, which is a major backer. ...