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A public school district in Seattle is suing several major social media companies, demanding that they pay for poisoning children's brains and making education more difficult. A lawsuit filed Friday by Seattle Public Schools against the companies behind TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, SnapChat and YouTube seeks compensatory damages to expand the district's mental health resources. School districts say the apps are exacerbating a growing youth mental health crisis — interfering with teachers' ability to do their jobs and providing a basis for lawsuits. "Defendants took advantage of the fragile brains of young people and hooked tens of millions of students across the country into a positive feedback loop of the overuse and abuse of Defendants' social media...

Emergency rules will soon enter the Cabinet Regulations aimed at preventing and suppressing technology crimes are due to be submitted to the cabinet this month, Digital Economy and Society (DES) Minister Chaiwut Tanakamanusorn said.This emergency order is intended to enable organizations to effectively handle fraud prevention procedures, combat illegal transactions and block Mule Bank accounts. Under the law, telecommunications regulators can shut down SIM cards suspected of being used for fraud, as well as connecting and transmitting sites that they believe are facilitating crime. Payment transactions suspected of being fraudulent may also be blocked...

Image: MoMo Productions/Getty ImagesOld habits and old hardware can last much longer than expected.Take your average laptop keyboard and screen (the same one I'm typing on right now), and it mimics the layout of a much older technology: the typewriter and the paper that came out of it. Must Read: Best Laptops from CES 2023: Dual Screens, 3D Displays, and TwistCertainly, when display technology was more basic, there was reason to stick with that basic format.A few years ago, the craze for 2-in-1 laptops with detachable and swivel screens exploded and are now mainstream. And now, CES 2023 shows some more fun options like dual-screen laptops that work in landscape or portrait mode, laptops with secondary E Ink displays, tactile numeric keypads, or screens that fold and slide. I was. A...

Hurricanes Lashae Dwyer, 13, takes Jasmyne to the basket in the third quarter of the NCAA game between University of Miami Hurricane College and Virginia Tech at the Wattsco Center in Coral Gables on Sunday, January 8, 2023. Congrats Roberts (4...

House airport Ireland airports put tech on trial as restrictions on liquids and laptops in hand luggage end The new scanner eliminates the 100ml liquid and gel limit. Photo: Shutterstock Ireland's airports recently began testing new technology to make air travel safer and more accessible for passengers. Already operational at his one of Ireland's airports, the project has been a resounding success. New technology This week, the Dublin Aviation Authority (DAA) is trialing technology that allows passengers to keep liquids and electronic devices in their hand luggage. Implementing this new technology lifts his 100ml limit on liquids when going through security. Exams are held at Cork Airport (ORK) and Dublin Airport (DUB). Today's simple flying vide...

Just weeks after Georgia Tech announced that it would move two wide receivers after the 2022 season and that Nate McCallum would be heading to Chapel Hill to play for the Tar Heels, Ryan King announced today that he will be moving on. Announced. King will now play with Mike Houston for the East Carolina Pirates. King was a talented player who couldn't find his role while in Atlanta, and he finished his career with 5 catches for 45 yards, no touchdowns, and an average of 9 yards per catch. . With King and McCallum moving elsewhere, the Yellow Jackets have had to find transfer help with positions to replace both players. You've won a contract from Gene (Duquesne) and signed three talented high school students in the 2023 class. Bryce Dopson (Brookwood, GA), Eric Singleton (Alexander, GA) ...

this was not the mark Warner's first CES rodeo. Virginia's senior senator was on board with this whole technology long before he was elected governor in 2002. His time at Columbia Capital found him steeped in the mobile world during his formative years. Nextel, the major telecommunications company of the era. After being away for years, the CTA invited Warner to appear on a panel alongside Senators Jackie Rosen of Nevada and Senators Ben Ray Lujan of New Mexico. The program was part of a broader and ongoing initiative to invite legal practitioners to her CES as technology becomes more and more important in our lives and the policies that govern it. Warner has put technology at the heart of much of the work he has done in the Senate, from social media accountability to the long-run...

At CES 2023, Stellantis unveiled its answer to the increasingly crowded battery-electric truck market. A wide shoulder pickup loaded with technology, a long cabin with 3rd row jump seats, flank cup holders and even a projector. The Ram 1500 Revolution BEV concept is completely different from what the Stellantis brand plans to start producing by 2024 (that version will be unveiled later this year). Still, it's the most optimistic yet about Ram's plans for the next generation of trucks and how it aims to compete with other entrants in the nascent EV truck market, including the Ford F-150 Lightning and Chevrolet Silverado EV. Provide a clear picture. Starting with a body-on-frame architecture designed for full-size EVs, it integrates battery packs, underbody aero panels and active dif...

A former women's soccer player at Virginia Tech who accused her coach of benching her political views will reportedly receive at least $100,000 as part of an agreement to dismiss a federal lawsuit. .Kirsten Henning will receive the award as part of a settlement of a lawsuit she filed against head coach Charles "Chugger" Adair in 2021, according to the Roanoke Times, according to her attorney. Cameron Norris said last week.Norris said the terms of the settlement did not include acknowledgment of wrongdoing by his clients or Adair.There are no details of the settlement in court records, according to the outlet, but Norris said the agreement would need to be approved by university and state officials before it was finalized.Former Virginia Tech footballer allegedly benched for refusing to ...