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Why schools around the country are locking up kids’ cellphones

Vox

In Akron, for example, students were coordinating fights to post on social media, Shipe said. But the move to keep phones out of schools also comes in the midst of a bigger debate about whether the devices, and social media in general, are having dire effects on childhood development and the lives of teenagers.

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Facebook’s whistleblower report confirms what researchers have known for years

The Verge

“If we’re going to have an informed conversation about the effects of social media on young people, it’s important to start with a full picture,” Zuckerberg wrote. In fact, social media researchers have spent around ten years gathering evidence on how teen body image is affected by social media.

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This 24-year-old entrepreneur wants to build the ‘first mainstream Web3 game’

GeekWire

Castaways plays its Web3 integration remarkably low-key, particularly by comparison to other games in its lane. ” Mills subsequently coded Statscraft , a software-as-a-service plug-in that provides user analytics for the operators of Minecraft servers, and sold it in 2016 to the commerce platform Tebex. Thanks for playing.’

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Elon Musk thinks we’re close to solving AI. That doesn’t make it true.

Vox

In October 2016, he predicted that a Tesla would drive itself from California to New York by 2017. (It He’s repeatedly argued that Teslas don’t need Lidar — a sensing system that virtually every other autonomous vehicle company relies on — on the basis of a misleading comparison between human vision and cameras in driverless cars.

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A short history of every time Apple CEO Tim Cook praised augmented reality

The Verge

While he once said it was hard to see the appeal of Google Glass , the AR wearable that proved unpopular with consumers, he’s held a consistently positive opinion on AR since at least 2016. July 2016: Cook says in a quarterly earnings call that “AR can be really great.”. “We This would become a running theme: AR good, VR not so good.

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Snap’s first diversity report says only 4 percent of the company identifies as Black

The Verge

Along with the diversity report, it released its “CitizenSnap” report, a 50-page document outlining its work in social and environmental causes. For comparison, Facebook released its seventh diversity report this year, and 45.3 percent of its employees identify as women, Black, or Hispanic.)

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Seattlepi.com will try newsletter strategy in Hearst’s ‘next phase’ for former newspaper website

GeekWire

The rise of local blogs, social media, and now newsletters have chipped away at the audience for major news sites over the past decade. A representative sample of local news headlines published by seattlepi.com in December 2016, left, and December 2021, right. Seattlepi.com is far from alone in experiencing this trend.

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