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Instagram to Use AI-Powered Age Detection Tools to Find Teen Accounts Posing as Adults
Instagram is expanding its Teen Accounts setting, which was first rolled out in 2024, with a new proactive technology and parents' reach-out campaigns. Announced on Monday, the Meta-owned social media platform is testing the use of AI-powered age detection tools to identify teenagers on the platform who have added an adult birthday.
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Children Addicted To Video Games, Smartphones At Risk Of Psychosis: Study
However, researchers said the technology itself is not to be blamed, adding that a child's addiction to the devices could be a warning that they are already vulnerable to mental illness.
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Smartphones Help Divert Teens' Attention From Bad Thoughts Before Sleep, Research Shows
Smartphones can help provide a distraction to teenagers, diverting their attention from bad thoughts and helping their ability to sleep, according to researchers. A study of 631 adolescents also revealed a higher tendency of app use among youth with existing sleep problems versus those not reporting a sleep problem.
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The Average Age Of A Startup Founder Is Not 20-Something. It's...
The notion of the teenage and twenty-something technology entrepreneur looms large. In reality, the most successful companies are more commonly founded by people in their 30s or older.
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TikTok Stresses Its Independence From China but US Lawmakers Are Unconvinced
TikTok has been growing more popular among US teenagers at a time of rising tensions between Washington and Beijing over trade and technology transfers.
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Indian-American Teen Awarded For Invention To Improve Brain Cancer Treat
Kavya Kopparapu has been conferred with the 2019 National STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) Education Award for her ground-breaking invention designed to improve treatments for glioblastoma, the deadliest form of brain cancer.
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Crypto's 32-Year-Old Billionaire Mining King Is Mulling an IPO
With his baby face, eyeglasses and go-to outfit of T-shirt, jeans and sneakers, Jihan Wu looks more like a geeky teenager than a self-made billionaire.
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Kickball, Tennis and App Writing
Summer camps have long been part of the American experience, computers and technology have added to the equation.
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Vampire books, iPads form new UK inflation benchmark
The iPad and teenage fiction such as the vampire-themed "Twilight" series are now part of Britain's official inflation benchmark.
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Too much gaming makes kids obese, aggressive and violent
Excessively playing video games can generate a greater risk of obesity, aggression and violent behaviour in children and teenagers
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Apple employees go online to help gay-lesbian teens
Apple employees have joined the online It Gets Better project that aims to help gay and lesbian teenagers come to terms with their sexual orientation.
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Some readers will get around paywall: NY Times
The New York Times has said that some people will manage to pay online for the newspaper but they will mostly be teenagers and the unemployed
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Instagram to Use AI-Powered Age Detection Tools to Find Teen Accounts Posing as Adults
Instagram is expanding its Teen Accounts setting, which was first rolled out in 2024, with a new proactive technology and parents' reach-out campaigns. Announced on Monday, the Meta-owned social media platform is testing the use of AI-powered age detection tools to identify teenagers on the platform who have added an adult birthday.
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Children Addicted To Video Games, Smartphones At Risk Of Psychosis: Study
However, researchers said the technology itself is not to be blamed, adding that a child's addiction to the devices could be a warning that they are already vulnerable to mental illness.
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Smartphones Help Divert Teens' Attention From Bad Thoughts Before Sleep, Research Shows
Smartphones can help provide a distraction to teenagers, diverting their attention from bad thoughts and helping their ability to sleep, according to researchers. A study of 631 adolescents also revealed a higher tendency of app use among youth with existing sleep problems versus those not reporting a sleep problem.
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The Average Age Of A Startup Founder Is Not 20-Something. It's...
The notion of the teenage and twenty-something technology entrepreneur looms large. In reality, the most successful companies are more commonly founded by people in their 30s or older.
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TikTok Stresses Its Independence From China but US Lawmakers Are Unconvinced
TikTok has been growing more popular among US teenagers at a time of rising tensions between Washington and Beijing over trade and technology transfers.
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Indian-American Teen Awarded For Invention To Improve Brain Cancer Treat
Kavya Kopparapu has been conferred with the 2019 National STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) Education Award for her ground-breaking invention designed to improve treatments for glioblastoma, the deadliest form of brain cancer.
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Crypto's 32-Year-Old Billionaire Mining King Is Mulling an IPO
With his baby face, eyeglasses and go-to outfit of T-shirt, jeans and sneakers, Jihan Wu looks more like a geeky teenager than a self-made billionaire.
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Kickball, Tennis and App Writing
Summer camps have long been part of the American experience, computers and technology have added to the equation.
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Vampire books, iPads form new UK inflation benchmark
The iPad and teenage fiction such as the vampire-themed "Twilight" series are now part of Britain's official inflation benchmark.
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Too much gaming makes kids obese, aggressive and violent
Excessively playing video games can generate a greater risk of obesity, aggression and violent behaviour in children and teenagers
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Apple employees go online to help gay-lesbian teens
Apple employees have joined the online It Gets Better project that aims to help gay and lesbian teenagers come to terms with their sexual orientation.
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Some readers will get around paywall: NY Times
The New York Times has said that some people will manage to pay online for the newspaper but they will mostly be teenagers and the unemployed
