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TikTok set to ban all content that promotes disordered eating

TikTok set to ban all content that promotes disordered eating

The app has announced major changes to its community guidelines in an effort to protect the wellbeing of users who may be vulnerable to videos glorifying unhealthy behaviour. A little over a year ago, TikTok began investigating videos promoting starvation following reports that potentially harmful pro-weight-loss accounts were still available in search results. Today, the viral video-sharing platform that’s wildly popular amongst young people (60% of its users...

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EU scientists make ‘major breakthrough’ in nuclear fusion

EU scientists make ‘major breakthrough’ in nuclear fusion

EU scientists say they have made a major breakthrough in the quest to make nuclear fusion – the limitless energy source that powers the stars – harnessable for humanity one day. As it stands, the bar for scientific achievements in nuclear fusion isn’t exactly high, but we are, at least, continuing to raise it. Harnessing the unlimited power of the stars may well be key to sustainably powering the globe...

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Samsung is repurposing fishing nets for its future devices

Samsung is repurposing fishing nets for its future devices

As part of its broader ‘Galaxy for the Planet’ initiative, the mobile giant is eliminating all plastic waste in its packaging and is using discarded fishing nets in the builds of future devices. With mobile companies relentlessly rolling out new iterations of their phones, e-waste is becoming an increasingly sizable problem as the years roll by. It’s estimated that by 2030, we’ll produce 74 million tons of gadget waste every...

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International Space Station will crash land into watery retirement in 2031

International Space Station will crash land into watery retirement in 2031

The zero-gravity research station will continue operations until 2031, at which point it will re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere for the first time since 1998. Shortly after, it will crash land in a remote region of the Pacific Ocean. After what will be a 33-year lifespan - facilitating on-hand, ground breaking inter-planetary research - the ISS will smash into the Pacific in a fiery blaze of twisted metal. What a dignified...

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