Addicted to your devices? According to experts, not all screen time is created equal. Here are some healthier ways to spend time online
The average UK adult spends around 7.5 hours a day on a screen, whether that’s a phone, laptop, games console or TV. That figure may even be conservative, particularly for those whose jobs require them to be online. As concern around screen time mounts, the instinctive response has been to demonise it. The reality, however, is more nuanced. As the Guardian’s video games editor and author of Super Nintendo: How One Japanese Company Helped the World Have Fun, Keza MacDonald, recently put it: “Not all screen time is created equal.”
Spending an hour learning a language on Duolingo is not the same as flicking through dozens of short-form videos on TikTok. Video-calling a friend is not equivalent to trolling someone on Facebook. The difference lies in how consciously we engage.
Continue reading...From infections and allergies to brain diseases and autoimmune disorders, a wave of trials offers hope
Clinical trials of immunotherapies have rocketed in the past decade as researchers have turned their understanding of the body’s defences into powerful new treatments. Leading the pack are cancer therapies, but researchers have other conditions in their sights, from infections and allergies to brain diseases and autoimmune disorders. Here, we explore how these therapies work.
Continue reading...Does Puerto Rican star’s debut collection for Zara spell the end of short shorts?
Men can breathe a huge sigh of relief this week, thanks to Bad Bunny, whose debut collection for fast fashion company Zara includes a pair of shockingly normal mid-thigh shorts.
While for the last few years, short-shorts have threatened to make every day a leg day, the sight of the Puerto Rican star wearing shorts that come comfortably to within a few inches of the knee will signal a welcome shift for many.
Continue reading...Jane Fonda, Bruce Springsteen and Joe Biden are among the names paying tribute to host of cancelled late-night show
Share your favorite memories from The Late Show With Stephen Colbert
Celebrities, politicians and New Yorkers have paid their respects to Stephen Colbert as The Late Show aired its final episode on Thursday.
The long-running chatshow, which started back in 1993, was cancelled last year by CBS, purportedly because of a financial decision. But many believed it was a result of the network’s increasing closenesss with Donald Trump, whom Colbert regularly criticised.
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Toen het kabinet-Rutte 3 viel over het Toeslagenschandaal wist staatssecretaris Stientje van Veldhoven niet hoe snel ze moest overstappen naar de door haarzelf gesubsidieerde NGO World Resources Institute. De resources waren kennelijk niet oneindig, want bij het aantreden van Jetten 1 dook Van Veldhoven ineens op, nota bene als minister. En wat betekent dat voor u? Ten eerste allemaal gewauwel over uw hogere energierekening. En ten tweede: een nóg hogere energierekening. "In cv’s moet binnenkort verplicht zo’n vier procent groen gas worden bijgemengd. Dat heeft het kabinet besloten. Minister Van Veldhoven (Klimaat en Groene Groei) verwacht dat deze groene ingreep tot hogere stookkosten voor consumenten gaat leiden, zo’n vijftien euro per jaar." Maar u krijgt er wel een lekker warm gevoel van binnen van! "Het groene gas moet uit eigen land komen, bijvoorbeeld van boeren die biogas maken uit plantaardige restproducten of mest." Sluiten we af met een dreigement: "Van Veldhoven zegt dat het in het begin draait om vier procent bijmenging, maar dat dit percentage later nog kan worden opgeschroefd." Wel. Ja.
Crazy story:
Until this past weekend, a contractor for the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) maintained a public GitHub repository that exposed credentials to several highly privileged AWS GovCloud accounts and a large number of internal CISA systems. Security experts said the public archive included files detailing how CISA builds, tests and deploys software internally, and that it represents one of the most egregious government data leaks in recent history.
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