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Move over, TikTok. Ofcom, the U.K. regulator enforcing the now official Online Safety Act, is gearing up to size up an even bigger target: search engines like Google and Bing and the role that they play in presenting self-injury, suicide and other harmful content at the click of a button, particularly to underage users. A report commissioned by Ofcom and produced by the Network Contagion Research Institute found that major search engines including Google, Microsoft’s Bing, DuckDuckGo, Yahoo and AOL become “one-click gateways” to such content by facilitating easy, quick access to web pages, images and videos — with one…

Tell us about Waverox   Waverox is a mind tracker device and wellness app based on EEG monitoring technology, helping boost productivity and combat stress, allowing users to achieve their most ambitious goals without sacrificing their mental health. Key features:   Monitoring: helps to raise brain functioning awareness  Productivity tool: assists in developing personalized work and rest rhythms   Biofeedback alpha training: helps develop stress resilience and pull the emergency brake in urgent emotional situations to switch gears.     How did you come up with the idea for Waverox devices?   The idea came as a result of two problems I…

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Digital reconstructions of endocasts of a woodpecker, Melanerpes aurifrons (top), and a troodontid dinosaur, Zanabazar junior (bottom). The blue area is the cerebellum. Credit: Amy Balanoff Evolutionary biologists at Johns Hopkins Medicine report they have combined PET scans of modern pigeons along with studies of dinosaur fossils to help answer an enduring question in biology: How did the brains of birds evolve to enable them to fly? The answer, they say, appears to be an adaptive increase in the size of the cerebellum in some fossil vertebrates. The cerebellum is a brain region responsible for movement and motor control. The…

Constance Marten, 36, and boyfriend Mark Gordon, 49, are on trial at the Old Bailey over the death of their baby Victoria. It is alleged the couple travelled across England and lived off-grid in a bid to keep their daughter after four other children were taken into care. They became front-page news last January when Greater Manchester Police launched a missing persons inquiry after finding a placenta in the couple’s burnt-out car on a motorway near Bolton. The pair spent hundreds of pounds on taxis taking them from the North West to Essex and on to east London, the Old Bailey…

Location : The M20 westbound entry slip at junction J13 . Reason : Congestion. Status : Currently Active. Return To Normal : Normal traffic conditions are expected between 00:30 and 00:45 on 31 January 2024. Source link

Image Credit: Laurent VU/SIPA/Shutterstock If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, we may receive an affiliate commission. Learn more about our policies and reviews. Don’t we all want to just copy everything Kendall Jenner does? In a recent collaboration with L’Oreal Paris, she revealed her favorite mascara: the L’Oréal Paris Voluminous Panorama Mascara, which she called the “secret to breathtaking lashes.” Wave goodbye to the hassle of false lashes; with this mascara, you can effortlessly achieve the optimal look for your lashes. It’s long-wearing and volumizing and will deliver a fluttery yet bold…

Giant Ventures, a UK-based VC that has made a habit of investing on both sides of the Atlantic, is launching two new funds, totalling $250 million. Its previous fund totalled $100 million. The firm invests across climate, health, and what it calls ‘purpose-driven’ startups and some used to call ‘impact’ or ‘mission-driven’.  Whatever the case, the raise consists of a new $100 million seed fund which will aim to back around 25 early-stage companies, while a $150 million climate-focused growth fund will aim at Series B companies. The firm says it’s made 10 investments so far from the two funds. Prior…

Why people matter Henry Ford famously declared that “Coming together is the beginning, staying together is progress and working together is success”. Although spoken many years ago, these words couldn’t ring truer today. Without the right people, your company would be unable to perform or even exist, which is why holding onto human capital is key to weathering the storm on the horizon. An agitated talent pool The issue is that the current workforce is unafraid to move around to get what it wants. PwC has revealed that 23% of UK employees plan to change jobs within the first six…

Peter Bruce is 72 and was last seen on Monday morning Source link