If you are one of Ya Lili’s 183,000 followers on her “@findgadgetswithme” Instagram account, you may have seen this video she posted recently: A man stands on a sunny beach, dressed only in swim shorts, his back covered in dirt. “This won’t come off!” he shouts as he rubs futilely at the brown filth covering
Meta is calling on TikTok and YouTube to also set limits on teen use at night. Manuel Arias Duran/Moment RF/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Manuel Arias Duran/Moment RF/Getty Images Stay up to date with our Up First newsletter, sent every weekday morning. The social media company Meta has agreed to pay up to $17.1
Tech entrepreneur Bryan Johnson has become famous for his mission to help humans live forever, with his catchphrase “Don’t die.” Now he wants to do the same thing for dogs. Johnson’s interest in canine longevity was piqued when he recently adopted a professionally trained Belgian Malinois named Katara to protect him from attackers. This week,
Meta just agreed to make sweeping changes for teens as part of a child safety settlement reached with attorneys general across the US. Under the agreement, Meta must apply new safeguards across Instagram and Facebook that will change how teens interact with the social media platforms, as well as restrict their use during certain times.
The head of Instagram said the company spent years trying to persuade teens to “take a break.” Adam Mosseri testified Tuesday on the witness stand in Meta’s social media addiction trial in Oakland that relatively few teens initially opted into “Take a Break,” a well-being feature designed to encourage users to step away from the
Andrew Garfield admits he has a secret Instagram account. “I’m as addicted as anybody. My screen time notifications are horrific to me. It’s like, I’ve given all of those hours to nothing,” he says. “It’s genuinely enraging because we don’t have as much control over these impulses as we should, and it’s been by design.
