Teenagers using social media for more than three hours a day are more likely to go to bed after 23:00 and wake during the night, UK research suggests. This affects one in three teens – with one in five spending five hours or more on apps like Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook every day, the study said. The University of Glasgow researchers said 13 to 15 year-olds may be delaying bedtime by being on their phones. Psychiatrists say screens should be avoided in the hour before bed. Body-clock changes But the study, of 12,000 teenagers, recognised that getting them off their…
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Video game stocks, like Electronic Arts Inc. (EA), Activision Blizzard Inc. (ATVI) and Take Two Interactive Software Inc. (TTWO), have risen spectacularly over the past five years, but have taken a big hit over the past year and have lagged the rest of the market. That underperformance is about to change, however. The release of enhanced new gaming consoles over the next few years will fuel increased demand for video games and help to revive the lagging stocks of their makers, according to Barron’s. What It Means for Investors Sony Corp. (SNE) recently announced the launch of its newest console, the…
WASHINGTON : As part of its goal to become a $5 trillion economy by 2024, India plans to spend $1.4 trillion on its infrastructure in the next five years, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Saturday. Addressing the annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) here, Sitharaman said a task force has been constituted in the finance ministry that will draw up a national infrastructure pipeline for the next five years. “As we envisage becoming a five trillion-dollar economy by 2024-25, our focus on creating world-class infrastructure has become even more resolute. If we spent $1.1 trillion on infrastructure in the last 10…
Apple is officially warning users of really old iOS devices to update to the latest available software or upgrade devices totally; as on November 3, these devices may begin to malfunction in regards to GPS location, time, and date. Now luckily enough for most of us, this won’t be an issue, as this warning is for people who are still using devices like the iPhone 5 or earlier, and for users of the iPad 4th Gen or earlier. In order to avoid the forthcoming bug, those iPhone 5 and iPad 4th Gen users need to update to at least iOS…
Overwatch has finally made its way to the Nintendo Switch, fulfilling the endless requests from me that Blizzard port its popular team shooter to Nintendo’s portable console. It’s not the first mainstream shooter to make the jump to the Switch: Bethesda has ported Doom and a few Wolfenstein games, and of course there’s Nintendo’s own Splatoon series and the ubiquitous Fortnite. But as an exclusively online, multiplayer-based competitive team shooter, Overwatch might be the least likely fit for the Switch, at least on paper. I’ve spent the last day or two playing the Switch port, and at first glance, that impression is correct. As a way to play Overwatch seriously, the Switch…
“Digital Interrupts” – Just like in an operating system, the biggest cost to outcomes, the flow of work and creativity of software professional is the context switch time at every task switch. Software professionals spend most of the day either looking at a screen or in close proximity of one, be it mobile phones in our pockets or at our bedside. While tools and technology aid to speed up, outsource and enable our minds – they also distract and constantly break our flow. Additionally, each of these interruptions is sometimes sought by us unconsciously. This is because the desire to…
Google has removed a pro-Hong Kong protestor game called The Revolution of Our Times from the Play Store, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. It marks the latest Hong Kong-related app to be pulled after Apple removed a crowdsourced mapping app used by protestors and Quartz’s news app. While the game has been removed, a cached version of the Play Store page is still available on Google search (at least for now). As an actual game, there doesn’t seem to be too much here beyond a basic text-based Choose Your Own Adventure-style narrative that tells the story of a protestor. In a statement released to The Wall Street…
Microsoft-owned GitHub will renew a $200,000 contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, despite concerns about the Trump administration’s policies, according to a leaked email. GitHub CEO Nat Friedman said in an internal email leaked to tech activist organization Fight for the Future that ICE purchased a license for a GitHub enterprise server in 2016, and that the purchase recently came up for renewal. In the email, Friedman said the company doesn’t have an agreement to provide professional services to ICE, and it “has no visibility into how this software is being used, other than presumably for software development and version control.” “NO…
Nobody comes to work jazzed about chasing after data. They simply want answers to their questions. That’s why Oracle is taking a new approach to analytics for finance pros, giving them tools that make it easier to stay informed about key financial measures. They can now set alerts on the most-relevant KPIs, review data through visualizations and narratives, and share their findings with colleagues via an app like Slack or WhatsApp—all from an app on their phone or laptop. T.K. Anand, Oracle senior vice president of analytics, told an Oracle OpenWorld crowd that the company’s new approach to analytics lets…
Aerial view to Dakar and shore of Atlantic ocean from observation deck of African Renaissance Monument through glass GETTY In a recent trip to Dakar, Senegal, I worked with a startup organization that was focused on bringing digital education to youth in sub Saharan Africa. As part of this assignment my team and I interviewed various schools, educators, administrators and parents in Senegal to understand the school systems in western Africa. What we found was that 65% of school children will eventually be employed in jobs that have yet to be created. What was seen as a key struggle is that…