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Social media can profoundly harm the mental health of youth, particularly adolescent girls, the US Surgeon General warned in an advisory on Tuesday, and he called for safeguards from tech companies for children who are at critical stages of brain development. US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy said that while social media offers some benefits, there are "ample indicators that social media could also harm children's well-being." "We are in the middle of a national youth mental health crisis, and I am concerned that social media is an important driver of that crisis - one that we must urgently address," Murthy said. Social media use may cause and perpetuate body image issues, affect eating behaviors and sleep quality, and lead to social comparison and low self-esteem, especially among adolescent girls, the advisory said, citing responses from a survey conducted among adolescents. Adolescents who spend more than three hours per day on social me...

Two Adelaide teens have gone viral for attempting to dress around Jetstar’s strict luggage limit , opening their suitcases in Melbourne airport and transferring as much of the weight as possible out - and onto themselves. Adriana Ocampo and Emily Altamura, both 19, were flying home earlier this month when they realised their luggage weighed almost double Jetstar’s 7kg limit. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Two Adelaide teens go viral for luggage limit airport antics. Watch the latest news and stream for free on 7plus >> So the teens did what any savvy modern women would do and started pulling clothes from their luggage , putting them on over what they were already wearing. Showing the process in a now-viral TikTok to her account, @feeling.lucki, Ocampo tried to control her laughter as she stuffed an iPad down her pants. The pair showed their luggage open on the airport floor as they desperately tried to get the luggage weight down. Unfortunately, the women were unlucky in the end whe...

The names of people within this story have been changed for their protection. Melanie thought it might be part of some fateful, universal plan when she and her new boyfriend Ben began bumping into each other at cafés or inadvertently booking into the same interstate hotels. Then he began recalling the names of people she had been speaking with, claiming “he just had a feeling” when questioned about it. Watch the latest News on Channel 7 or stream for free on 7plus >> WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: eSafety commissioner explains the danger of Technology -facilitated abuse. Eventually, Ben let slip that he had been tracking her location and conversations using a combination of high-tech equipment and social media. But when Melanie went to the police, they simply advised her to turn her phone off. In a digital age where communication with our support networks, professional responsibilities, banking, and bookings all take place online, it could be argued that asking a victim to unplug from...

Telegram CEO, Pavel Durov, has announced a new feature being added to the messaging application, to com Pet e with other online messaging platforms like WhatsApp. Stories is being added to Telegram after various requests from users, said Durov. Launching in early July, Stories will be able to share their precious moments while choosing who can view them and whose stories they wish to see or hide. According to the announcement, Stories will be placed in an expandable section at the top of the chat list. Like the regular Stories feature on other apps, users can add captions, links or tag other people in their pictures or videos taken from their front or rear camera. Users would also have the freedom to choose how long the Story would stay up from 6, 12, 24, or 48 hours. Stories can also permanently be displayed on the user profile similar to Instagram highlights. “The ability to save your stories to the profile page will make Telegram profiles more informative and colorful,...

One of Reddit's communities, known as Transcribers of Reddit, is shutting down the channel on June 30th after the platform changed its API structure . Transcribers of Reddit is a subreddit that actively transcribes content posted to Reddit to make it available to all. In addition, the community also raised awareness regarding different problems on the platform and provided temporary and constructive solutions to them. The community did share a positive and strong relationship with the platform, as Reddit was interested in addressing the pointed-out flaws. However, Reddit has shown a 'lack of willingness' to sort out the recent changes in the API structure of the platform. Read  Japan's Military considers adopting Musk's Starlink satellite service In the announcement post, the moderator said, "The announced changes to the API structure starting July 1st would likely make it more difficult, though not impossible, for Transcribers of Reddit to fun...

Alphabet Inc's YouTube and Youtube TV were down for thousands of users on Thursday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com. Downdetector showed there were more than 13,000 incidents of people reporting issues with YouTube as of 8:00 p.m. ET (00:00 GMT on Friday), and over 3,000 reports for YouTube TV. Source: https://thefoxposts.com/youtube-down-for-thousands-of-users-TheFOXposts-27460.html?utm_source=blogger_source&utm_medium=blogger_medium&utm_campaign=blogger_cam Category: Technology Post by: TheFOXposts.Com

Two men have been charged after police seized millions of dollars worth of luxury cars, watches and other items from an alleged Cryptocurrency scam. The men, aged 39 and 67, were arrested in Sydney after two companies were defrauded of more than $5.5 million since 2021. Officers raided a warehouse at Cromer on Sydney’s northern beaches on Friday and seized six luxury cars, 11 motorcycles, seven designer watches, nun chucks, Cryptocurrency wallets and relevant documents. Watch the latest news and stream for free on 7plus >> Police say the younger man defrauded the companies, while the older man helped authorise the funds and later tried to dispose of a $600,000 red Ferrari on behalf of the younger man to help avoid police detection. Before last week’s raid, police had arrested the 39-year-old during a traffic stop. Source: https://thefoxposts.com/luxury-cars-seized-in-sydney-in-raid-over-alleged-5-5m-crypto-scam-TheFOXposts-27309.html?utm_source=blogger_source&utm_med...

SEOUL: YouTube will launch its first official shopping channel for live commerce in South Korea on June 30, Yonhap news agency reported on Wednesday. South Korea already has a booming live-streaming commerce Business led by tech giant Naver (035420.KS), making it a prime test market for the global heavyweight as the Alphabet-owned (GOOGL.O) company focuses on becoming more "shoppable". The new channel will operate in Korean language and will start as a 90-day project. In the beginning it will provide a live-commerce platform to companies and plans to livestream shopping content from about 30 brands, Yonhap and other Korean media said, citing people familiar with the matter. It is YouTube's first official shopping channel in any country, Yonhap said. "We may experiment with a variety of YouTube Shopping features from time to time," a YouTube spokesperson said, without elaborating. With YouTube's ad revenue affected by advert...

TOKYO: SoftBank Group Chief Executive Masayoshi Son said on Tuesday he is a " heavy user" of ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence-powered chatbot from Microsoft backed startup OpenAI. "I am chatting with ChatGPT everyday - I am a heavy user," Son told shareholders of the group's telecoms subsidiary. Amid excitement over AI, Son has stepped back from public pronouncements in recent months to focus on the planned listing of chip designer Arm as his Technology investment conglomerate books heavy loss due to the sliding value of its portfolio. Son also said he is speaking "almost everyday" to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who made high-profile visits to Tokyo this year as he looks to capitalise on interest in generative AI and exert i NFL uence on regulation of the burgeoning Technology worldwide. The San Francisco-based startup is supported by investment from Microsoft, which is seen as a leader in AI adoption and has begun a host of AI upgr...

As temperatures plummet across the country, Australians are rugging up as we head into winter, with the season’s solstice occurring this week. This Thursday, June 22, is the winter solstice, which is the shortest day — and longest night — of the year in the Southern Hemisphere. On this day, the sun is set to rise about 7am and set around 5pm across the east of the country. Watch the latest News on Channel 7 or stream for free on 7plus >> From then on, the days will gradually start getting longer. When is the winter solstice for 2023? This year’s Southern Hemisphere winter solstice will occur at 12.58am AEST on Thursday, June 22. Following this, days will start to become longer, and nights will get shorter for the next six months, until the date of the summer solstice on December 22. What does it mean? The winter solstice in the Southern Hemisphere marks the moment the Earth’s South Pole reaches its furthest tilt away from the Sun, WeatherZone reports. Due to the angle of the ...

A Twitter video app for smart TVs is in the social media company's plans, owner Elon Musk said in a tweet on Saturday, a move that would be in line with the company's new plans to focus on growing video content on the platform. In response to a tweet suggesting that a Twitter video app is needed, Musk replied "It's coming". New CEO Linda Yaccarino and Musk had in an investor presentation on Thursday laid out Twitter's plans to focus on video , creator and commerce partnerships to revitalize the social media company's Business beyond digital advertising. The investor presentation was reviewed by Reuters. One slide of the presentation said that vertical video accounted for more than 10% of time spent on Twitter. Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson launched a new show earlier this month on the platform called "Tucker on Twitter." Twitter envisions that it could sell ads and sponsorships alongside video s from Carlson and other cont...

Twitter plans to focus on video, creator and commerce partnerships to revitalize the social media company's business beyond digital advertising, according to an investor presentation by owner Elon Musk and new Chief Executive Linda Yaccarino that was reviewed by Reuters. Yaccarino, who started as CEO on June 5, told Twitter investors on Thursday that the company is in early conversations with political and Entertainment figures, payments services and news and media publishers on potential partnerships, said a source familiar with the matter, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss a private investor call. The presentation was Yaccarino's first time addressing the company's investors, the source said. After Musk acquired Twitter in October, the social media firm faced months of chaos, including layoffs of thousands of employees, criticism over lax content moderation, and an exodus of many advertisers who did not want their ads appearing next to inappropriate cont...

Sky gazers are in for a treat in the early house of Saturday morning, with five planets set to align just before sunrise. Mercury, Uranus, Jupiter, Neptune and Saturn will all be closely gathered on one side of the sun in that order about an hour before sunrise. Saturn will be perched somewhere above them, Mercury will be low to the east, and all the others lined up in between them. Watch the latest News on Channel 7 or stream for free on 7plus >> But unlike the planet ary align ment this time last year, ANU Astrophysict Brad Tucker told 7NEWS.com.au that not all of the five planet s will be visible with the naked eye. Catching Uranus and Neptune will likely require binoculars or a telescope. “You’ll have Mercury, really low in the east, right before the rising sun, which will appear as a little bright dot on the horizon,” Tucker said. “Then going in an arch towards the north, you’ll have Uranus, and that’s the one that’s going to be really hard to see. “You won’t see it with th...

KARACHI: A team of Pakistani scientists has made a significant scientific breakthrough by developing an artificial intelligence (AI)-based visual classification method that accurately assesses the sweetness of native citrus fruits. Led by Dr Ayesha Zeb from the National Centre of Robotics and Automation at the National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), the team successfully predicted fruit sweetness with over 80 per cent accuracy, without damaging the fruit in the process. To conduct their experiment, the researchers selected 92 citrus fruits, including Blood Red, Mosambi, and Succari varieties, from a farm in the Chakwal district. They utilised a handheld spectrometer to obtain spectra, which are patterns obtained from the bouncing light, from marked regions on the fruits' skin. The team employed near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy, a technique that enables the analysis of non-visible light spectra, to examine the fruit samples. Of the 92 fruits, 64 were used for cal...

Your phone pings with a text message — it’s confirmation a Qantas flight has been booked using your details. The catch is, you didn’t book it. It’s the latest scam text circulating as cyber criminals pose as the national carrier to dupe Australians into handing over their personal and financial details. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: The online job ad that tricked a single mum into handing over her life savings. For more Travel related news and videos check out 7Travel >> The message reads similar to: “Qantas Airline ticket bought for flight O7MS. If this was not you, get in touch with us” and includes a phone number to contact. Scammers can manipulate sender ID to make the message appear as if it is from Qantas or your bank, or make the message appear in a legitimate existing text message thread. Scamwatch is urging Australians to be aware of fake airline text messages. Credit: Scamwatch Australian Com Pet ition and Consumer Commission’s Scamwatch warned Australians about the scam thi...

Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday revealed the company's next generation mixed reality headset, the Quest 3, as the company braces for Apple to potentially reshape a nascent market that Meta has dominated so far. Priced starting at $499, the device will be 40% thinner than the company's previous headset and feature color mixed reality, which combines augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) elements, Zuckerberg said in an Instagram post ahead of Meta's annual gaming conference. Meta also said it would lower the prices of its existing Quest 2 headsets, while adding performance upgrades to those devices aimed at delivering a smoother user experience. The Quest 3 will have a new Qualcomm chipset with twice the graphics performance as the Quest 2, Zuckerberg said. He said the device would launch in the autumn and promised more details at the company's annual AR/VR conference on Sept. 27. Zuckerberg's announcement came less than a week before tech riva...

One of the most notable happenings at Apple’s event for developers on Monday is likely the iPhone maker’s tweak that will keep its autocorrect feature from annoyingly correcting one of the most common expletives to “ducking”. “In those moments where you just want to type a ducking word, well, the keyboard will learn it, too,” Apple’s software chief Craig Federighi said. The iPhone keyboard autocorrect feature has always had its quirks, sometimes taking a misspelled word while texting and substituting what it deems a logical option that ends up changing the meaning of a particular phrase or sentence. Watch the latest News on Channel 7 or stream for free on 7plus >> Such occurrences generally produce follow-up texts along the lines of “damn autocorrect!” But the “ducking” substitution is a long-standing source of mirth or frustration, depending on how many times one has had to rewrite their own texts or scream at one’s own device (the iPhone cannot correct one’s verbal epithets). ...

 Apple and Amazon.com must face a consumer antitrust lawsuit in US court accusing them of conspiring to artificially i NFL ate the price of iPhones and iPads sold on Amazon's platform, a federal judge in Seattle ruled on Thursday. In his ruling, US District Judge John Coughenour rejected bids from Apple and Amazon to dismiss the prospective class action on various legal grounds. Coughenour said the "validity" of the relevant market, a central issue in antitrust litigation, was a question for a jury. The lawsuit, filed in November, is among several private and government actions challenging Amazon's online price practices. Coughenour's ruling means the case will move forward to evidence-gathering and other pretrial proceedings. Lawyers for Apple and Amazon and representatives for the companies did not immediately respond to requests for comment on Friday. Steve Berman, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, called the court...

A young Sydney couple have slammed a “God-bothering” vandal for supergluing a crucifix to their son’s memorial plaque last week. Edwina and Anthony Symonds’ son, Seb, died five years ago, aged just 10 months, after experiencing a catastrophic seizure in his cot. The couple and their other two young children, Elodie and Dash, visit Seb’s memorial plaque by Narrabeen Lagoon often. Watch the latest news and stream for free on 7plus >> “Saying hello to our little buddy at the lake is somewhat of a family ritual, where his brother and sister can play with him,” Anthony wrote. But on a recent visit they discovered someone had stuck the crucifix on the plaque. The Symonds family discovered someone had superglued a crucifix to their son’s memorial plaque. Credit: Facebook Edwina slammed the religious vandal in an open letter posted to a Northern Beaches community group on Facebook. “To the God-botherer that vandal ised our son’ s plaque by supergluing a cross to it,” Edwina wrote. “I ...

ByteDance-owned TikTok hopes to more than quadruple the size of its worldwide e-commerce operations to as much as $20 billion in merchandise sales this year, relying on growth in Southeast Asia, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter. The increase compares to last year’s $4.4 billion in gross merchandise value, representing the worth of total goods sold through its online marketplace TikTok Shop, the report said, adding that the company is betting on markets such as Indonesia. TikTok did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment. TikTok's e-commerce platform lets customers purchase goods through links on the app during live broadcasts. The development comes as the Chinese-owned company faces scrutiny from governments and regulators because of concerns that China could use the app to harvest user data or advance its interests. The company is also working to expand its sales in the US and Europe, the report s...

Customers who purchased Dell monitors as part of an online sale several years ago will be refunded, after the Federal Court found the Australian branch of the technology company misled consumers with “shocking” false discounts. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) launched legal action against the company last year over a sale between 2019 and 2022 which offered customers discounts on computer monitors if they were purchased as bundle packages along with a desktop, laptop, or notebook device. ACCC Commissioner Liza Carver said Dell Australia admitted during the court proceedings it misled customers because most of the time, the monitors were not sold at the supposed original price touted before the discount. Watch the latest News on Channel 7 or stream for free on 7plus >> “In some cases, consumers paid more for the add-on monitor advertised as ‘ discount ed’ than they would have paid if they had bought it as a stand-alone product, which is shocking ,” she s...

For French President Emmanuel Macron, it was a light-bulb moment. In an ornate ballroom at the Palace of Versailles last July, the head of Taiwan's ProLogium took out a pair of scissors and cut one of its solid-state batteries the size of a credit card in half. The small bulb it was powering continued to shine. Macron was amazed by the demonstration of the safety and durability of the next-generation technology many carmakers hope will soon power electric vehicles (EVs), according to two people at the meeting. "We'll make your life easier and help you set up shop here," he told ProLogium's Chief Executive Vincent Yang. Ten months later, Macron and Yang stood side-by-side in Dunkirk to announce that ProLogium had picked the northern French port ahead of sites in Germany and the Netherlands for its first EV battery gigafactory outside Taiwan. It is one of four such gigafactories Macron hopes will transform the poor, former coal mining area near Belgium into a ...