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It seems the kids in America are not all right.The annual World Happiness Report found that the US is now in 23rd place on its list of the world's happiest countries.The US plummeted eight positions compared with last year, falling out of the top 20 for the first time since the report was first compiled in 2012. It's published by the Wellbeing Research Centre at the University of Oxford. Finland held on to its top spot, while Canada is in 15th place and the UK is 20th. The discontent among America's youth is largely…

The U.S. ranks as the 23rd happiest country in the world, according to a new report from the United Nations published on Wednesday. And while that may not sound too bad, given the fact that there are 143 countries on the list, it’s a significant drop from last year when the U.S. ranked 15th. Sadly, it looks like Americans under the age of 44 are to blame for our national malaise.Oscar Issac on How Hope Plays into Leo's ArcThe study—published each year by the UN, Oxford, and Gallup—tracks global happiness on a three-year…

Samsung's new Galaxy A35 is very similar to your Galaxy A34 in many aspects but vastly different in others. Camera-wise, the 2024 model borrows almost every sensor from the Galaxy A34 but sports a different 50MP primary wide shooter instead of a 48MP unit. And here's how big a difference this new configuration makes, according to independent reviewer DxOMark. The Galaxy A35 captures better photos and records higher-quality videos than the Galaxy A34 while offering improved capabilities in lowlight conditions. The…

The day after Google released its new search spam policies, including the March 2024 spam and core updates, Google began penalizing websites that the search company felt violated those spam policies. The result of these search penalties was that some sites were completely or partially de-listed from Google’s search results, and all or part of their search traffic was wiped out. These sites also received a notice of these penalties in the manual actions section within Google Search Console.Manual actions.…

Io games are increasingly popular, to the point that you’ve probably heard of at least one, even if you didn’t realize it. Beginning back in 2015, io games made a huge debut and were some of the most popular titles on the market all the way through 2018, with even PewDiePie once declaring an io game to be his “new favorite game.” Now that’s some popularity. Nowadays, there are still loads of active io games for players to enjoy or just try out. There are way too many to list, but there are a few that are worth checking…

Xiaomi 14 DXOMARK ratingCamera ratingAs per DXOMARK, Xiaomi 14 secured the 3rd position in its camera ranking for premium devices ($600-800 – around Rs 49,738-Rs 66,317) with a score of 138 points.The device boasts significant improvements in image and video quality compared to its predecessor, thanks to hardware upgrades like a larger sensor and a bigger aperture.It excels in balancing texture and noise, delivering detailed images with minimal noise, especially suitable for landscapes, as per the test.However, outdoor…

Denis Villeneuve’s movie adaptations of Frank Herbert’s seminal sci-fi novel, Dune, has become a cultural and commercial hit. That’s big for Team Hollywood, but I still have a hard time believing that Dune has done more for movies than it has for video games — so long as you ignore the kerfuffle over whether it influenced Star Wars. Even though the Dune games are far from occupying our most vivid memories of the real-time strategy boom of the ’90s, the whole genre owes its existence to this series. Also, there’s more to…

Google has been slowly changing how it talks about ranking algorithms. Although Google hasn’t said anything actually new to sharp-eyed industry watchers, it is important to shine a light on what has been subtly said, formalize it and apply it to digital marketing. Information satisfaction and helpful people-first content The core concept we should be focusing on is information satisfaction (IS). It is not new and has been hiding in plain sight for a long time. What is information satisfaction?…

The term ‘superhero game’ used to be a bad word in gaming circles, at least up till the mid-2000s. Before, superhero games were only tangentially related to the superheroes they were portraying. Batman would have him doing street races (huh?), Superman would be flying through hoops (why?), or various generic beat-em-ups (boring!). There were a few good games, but those were few and far between.But things are very different now with gamers eagerly awaiting superhero titles. A lot of the credit falls to Rocksteady Studios.…

I’m a cinephile who enjoys regularly revisiting my favorite films, but director Stephen Frears’ High Fidelity is a movie that exists in a very special category for me in that I’ve probably watched it dozens of times. The characters and performances are wonderful and real (I always appreciate how I vacillate between loving and hating each of the protagonists), and it’s hilariously brutal emotional honesty help make it one of the all-time best romantic comedies.But above all other brilliant qualities, its greatest strength…