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Police reached him in minutes — and the same system decides what else he can see
A platform that can read posts at scale, geolocate a user from video and reach police in minutes is doing something worth having. It is…
Tagged “mental health”
Technology
He has ten years and a loyal following. One video brought tens of thousands of comments too vile to repeat
Mitchell Halliday created a red carpet look for Katie Price. What arrived was not criticism of his work — most of the cruelty was aimed at…
Health
A sleep expert’s advice to new students: forget the early night, fix the morning
Late nights, noisy flatmates and a strange new bed. A psychotherapist who specialises in student sleep says forcing an early night does not…
Health
Chair-based exercise and laughter yoga: the cheapest intervention in ageing, and nobody runs it here
A not-for-profit takes seated classes into community centres and care homes. Participants say it improved their physical and mental…
Health
Chasing the perfect night’s sleep is now a recognised way of ruining it
Sleep scores, magnesium, white noise machines. Doctors say patients are arriving with tracker data convinced they have a disorder they do…
Technology
Bezos on stress: it comes from not acting — the research agrees, and adds the one detail that makes the advice work
Deciding to act changes little. Deciding what you will do, where and when, changes a great deal — which is the difference between advice…
Technology
No manual of psychiatry recognises social media addiction. That argument is now being had in a courtroom, which changes what is at stake
The DSM-5 and ICD-11 do not list it. Stanford’s Anna Lembke has testified that platform features are designed to be compulsive. Both of…
Technology
The lawsuits do not allege the chatbot malfunctioned. They allege it worked as designed, and that the design was the problem
The Raine complaint says OpenAI knew that memory, simulated empathy and validation would endanger vulnerable users, and launched anyway…