A young girl uses the TikTok app on a smartphone (Peter Byrne/PA)
(Picture: PA Archive)A study has found some teenagers using TikTok are exposed to eating disorder and self-harm content within minutes of joining the platform.
The Centre for Countering Digital Hate said that the sheer speed of TikTok’s recommendations to new users is harmful.
One of its test accounts was shown content referencing suicide within three minutes of joining the platform.
The CEO of mindfulness app Headspace has told Tech & Science Daily we should all be practising some form of mindfulness on a regular basis
Russell Glass said studies have shown that ten minutes of meditation over 30 days can reduce stress, anxiety and depression levels.
Nasa’s Ingenuity drone, which travels with the Perseverance rover on Mars, is set to take off and explore the hills of the red planet
It has recently received a software update which should allow it to navigate the hills surrounding the pair, as they climb their way up the 40-metre incline out of the Jezero Crater.
Plus: Twitter bans user tracking Elon Musk’s private jet, why Google won’t launch a ChatGPT rival, will Apple allow rival app stores on iPhone in the EU?, and the UK’s top Alexa queries of 2022 revealed.
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