Camila Cabello doesn’t use social media to “protect her energy”. The ‘Never Be The Same’ hitmaker has revealed she stays off social media apps, only letting her mother screenshot and send the positive ones to her. Speaking to Zane Lowe on Apple Music’s Beats 1 radio show, she said: “I want it to be things I can relate to, things from the heart. I do it to protect my energy … I can’t do that if I care about what people think. I can’t do that if I’m trying to please.” Camila had previously confessed to fans that she doesn’t…
Author: Loknath Das
The woman was a student of BA (final-year) while the man was a Class 12 passout. (Representative image) Ayoung man and a woman shot themselves dead here, streaming their suicide live on social media, police said Thursday. The alleged suicide took place at Gujjran village, about four kilometres away from Dirba town of Sangrur district, on Wednesday night, police said. Their bodies were found in the fields, police said. The cause is not clear. Both were unmarried and their families denied of having information about any possible relationship between them, police said. The woman was a student of BA (final-year)…
Nearly one year after releasing the Forma e-reader, Kobo returns today with a new slab dubbed the Kobo Libra H2O. The $169 e-reader retains the skeleton of the Forma, but is actually a smaller device. It has a 7-inch, 1680×1264, 300ppi E Ink display, down from the Forma’s 8-inch display, but it has the same side-chin with page-turn buttons. Notably, Kobo moved the power button from the edge of the e-reader to the back of the device, and it’s now a slightly indented circle that’s easy to discern from the device’s slightly textured back. At 6.7oz, the Libra H2O is also a hair…
Social network users risk becoming more and more addicted to social media platforms even as they experience stress from their use. Social networking sites (SNS) such as Facebook and Instagram are known to cause stress in users, known as technostress from social media. However, when faced with such stress, instead of switching off or using them less, people are moving from one aspect of the social media platforms to another – escaping the causes of their stress without leaving the medium on which it originated. Research into the habits of 444 Facebook users revealed they would switch between activities such…
Close to 96 per cent of Nokia smartphones sold since since Q3 2018 are running on Android Pie. HMD Global has upgraded its entire portfolio of Nokia smartphones to Android Pie already and recently announced its roadmap for Android 10 update as well. The company’s efforts in delivering software and security updates quickly is why it is currently leading the global rankings in smartphone software update, according to the latest findings by Counterpoint Research. “Among the top 10 smartphone makers, nearly 96 per cent of Nokia smartphones, sold cumulatively since Q3 2018, are already running on Android Pie or have had…
To what extent are democratic elections vulnerable to social media manipulation? The fractured state of research and evidence on this most important question facing democracy is reflected in the range of disagreement among experts. Facebook chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg has repeatedly called on the U.S. government to regulate election manipulation through social media. But we cannot manage what we do not measure. Without an organized research agenda that informs policy, democracies will remain vulnerable to foreign and domestic attacks. Thankfully, social media’s effects are, in our view, eminently measurable. Here, we advocate a research agenda for measuring social media…
Cupertino-based tech giant Apple has released a new software update for its iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, MacBook and Apple TV users. The key highlight among all these updates is the iOS 12.4.1 for the iPhones, iPad and iPod touch. This operating system update fixes a vulnerability using which “a malicious application may be able to execute arbitrary code with system privileges.” Apple says that “after free issue was addressed through improved memory management.” The WatchOS 5.3.1 includes “important security updates.” Apple has not published CVE entries for this update. For MacBook users, macOS Mojave 10.14.6 supplemental update has been rolled…
The hit video game World of Warcraft (WoW) is going back to basics with the launch of WoW Classic this evening. First released in 2004, the online multi-player game has evolved and changed dramatically over the years. Many players had asked developer Blizzard Entertainment to revive the original version of the game, known as “classic” or “vanilla” WoW. While not identical to the original, WoW Classic will replicate a majority of the features from the first game. World of Warcraft is a fantasy game in which players roam the virtual world, fighting monsters and completing quests. Blizzard said some players…
Mukherjee said, while medium of disseminating information has evolved — from scribbling notes to typewriters and now mobile phones — objectivity should not be compromised with. Affirming that print journalism has the maximum impact among readers, former President Pranab Mukherjee on Sunday cautioned people about sharing information on social media, while underlining the importance of checking facts. Speaking at a media awards function here, Mukherjee said people should be careful while sharing information on the social media. “Several social and communal tensions have traced their roots to rumours shared over social media by mischievous persons. Even people who innocently share…
Graduate Reading Room in the Suzzallo Library at the University of Washington in Seattle. Getty Images. GETTY Social media platforms prioritize talking over listening, global over local, individual over community, speed over accuracy, sharing over understanding. Libraries prioritize reading, emphasize a globally aware local grounding, foster community, prioritize evidence-based understanding and trace their roots to quiet contemplation. What if social media platforms adapted to be more like libraries with their emphasis on learning and less like today’s schoolyard screaming matches? The Web has long been described as the Library 2.0, a digital reincarnation of the knowledge centers that have long…