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About half of adolescents have had a mental health disorder at some point in their lives, and some school districts are putting at least part of the blame on social media companies that they say addict America's youth. It won't be easy to prove in court, but Seattle schools will try, having sued over the issue. They blame companies like Meta Platforms Inc., Snap Inc. and ByteDance Ltd., the owner of TikTok Inc., for contributing to the mental health crisis among students and say the addictive apps interfere with…

Two women have been saved by search and rescue in British Columbia after using the iPhone 14's Emergency SOS via satellite feature after getting stranded in the wilderness. According to a report from Times Colonist, two women got lost on a trip back to Alberta in December when a closed highway forced them to take a detour through a service road. The women tried to pass an unplowed road, and got stuck in what rescuers described as a "wall of snow." The two women were lost "approximately 20 kilometers down the road, stuck…

The horror film that we’ve all been waiting for is just around the corner but the critical reviews are already in and it looks like M3GAN has slayed it. The story of an AI doll going rogue has had the internet abuzz for quite some time now and based on these early reports it seems the film delivers on what we all want and then some. The film has landed a near-perfect score of 98 percent on the Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer so far with critics raving about this darkly humorous comedy that pushes the envelope on good taste.…

While it is certainly true that plants need CO2 to thrive, it appears that even plants can overdo it.Our CO2 habit is gradually making it harder for plants to absorb the vital nutrients they need to grow, the same nutrients that we rely on them to obtain.This is what a new review of past and current research has concluded from both experimental and natural data."What is clear is that the nutrient composition of the main crops used worldwide, such as rice and wheat, is negatively impacted by the elevation of CO2,"…

Decentralisation makes the financial system accessible to anybody with an Internet connection by eliminating the intermediary and regaining financial power from centralised organisations and government entities. Decentralised Applications (DApps) or protocols created on the blockchain regulate traditional financial activities such as asset exchange, staking, stablecoin creation, lending/borrowing, trading, peer-to-peer payments, and wealth management in DeFi. More than a trillion dollars worth of trade was conducted…

The 2022 Nobel prize for physics has been awarded to a trio of scientists for pioneering experiments in quantum mechanics, the theory covering the micro-world of atoms and particles.Alain Aspect from Université Paris-Saclay in France, John Clauser from J.F. Clauser & Associates in the US, and Anton Zeilinger from University of Vienna in Austria, will share the prize sum of 10 million Swedish kronor (US$915,000) "for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering…

Image: A24 Mia Goth has confirmed herself as the new scream queen for the 2020s, as Pearl makes a sizable splash at the box office. The prequel to Ti West’s divisive horror flick X has made a name for itself within its opening week, fueling the fire of 2022 being a year for non-franchise films. Off a reported budget of $1 million, the sequel has grossed $6 million domestically making its money back comfortably before any international release. Pearl’s predecessor X was a similar success with a $1 million…

Hyundai Motor Group has opened a new driving centre in South Korea to offer customers the opportunity to test drive vehicles under extreme driving conditions. The HMG Driving Experience Center is located inside the new Hankook Tire &…

Dr. Yasam Ayavefe is a serial entrepreneur, businessman, and philanthropist. He started his business life early and is now Chairman of the Board of Milaya Capital Limited. This dynamic London-based venture capital business has grown fast and evolved into highly respected masterminds of many sectors as the acclaimed businesses in the UK. Dr. Ayavefe started his very first initiatives in Mersin and Cyprus, where he specialized in Telecom Programming and Cyber Security. He started with his investment adventure on the island…

In May, Andrew Dominik – the director of Blonde, Netflix’s forthcoming biopic of Marilyn Monroe – predicted that the film would “offend everyone”.A few months on, and he has been proven right.The film isn’t even out yet (it’s scheduled for release on Netflix on 28 September) but the trailer, featuring No Time to Die and Knives Out star Ana de Armas as the late screen icon, has already divided opinion.The controversy is, in part, due to the fact that Blonde is the first film produced by Netflix to carry the rarely awarded…