Meta Dissolves Its Responsible Innovation Team

The disbandment comes at a time when concerns about the social platform‘s practices toward teenagers and underage users are on the rise. The Responsible Innovation Team collaborated with the internal product teams, outside privacy specialists, academics, and users to see how Meta products affect society. Engineers and people who specialized in civil rights and ethics were the members of this team. Of course, Meta spokesman Eric Porterfield confirmed that most members of the disbanded team would stay at the company and continue similar work in other departments....

January 25, 2023 · 2 min · 307 words · Daniel Cole

Meta Testing Integrated Account Switcher For Instagram Facebook

Facilitating this seamless switch between Instagram and Facebook is the company’s Accounts Center feature. This feature has been around for years and already lets you jump through multiple Instagram profiles with just a few taps on the screen. Simply add all your Instagram accounts to Accounts Center and you’re good to go. Meta is now adding Facebook to the mix. You can enter Accounts Center from either app, likely by long-pressing the profile tab, and switch to the desired Facebook or Instagram profile in no time....

January 25, 2023 · 2 min · 364 words · Monique Barrett

Mindfulness For Middle Schoolers

Two new studies from Yale and Harvard Universities and MIT shed some light on the question, finding that mindfulness may reduce emotional reactivity in the brain as well as improving mental health and academic success for middle-school students. Mindfulness Boosts Emotional Well-Being in Teens In the first study of its kind, MIT researchers showed that mindfulness training may alter brain functioning linked to emotional processing in sixth-grade students. Published in Behavioral Neuroscience, the study included a subset of about 40 middle schoolers who participated in a trial comparing the effects of eight weeks of either daily mindfulness training or “coding” instruction....

January 25, 2023 · 3 min · 523 words · Shawn Anderson

Motorola Razr 2022 To Cost More Than Galaxy Z Flip 4

Motorola may price the Razr 2022 foldable higher than the competition Motorola may price the Razr 2022 foldable higher than the competition The Motorola Razr 2022 debuted in China a couple of months back. The new model looks nothing like the first-gen Razr foldable from 2019, which was a modern recreation of the Razr V3 feature flip phone from almost two decades ago. While the nostalgia factor helped Motorola move some units of its first foldable smartphone despite a limited release, it may no longer be the case with the latest version....

January 25, 2023 · 2 min · 366 words · Michelle Moore

Nest Hub Max Will Soon Receive Google Meet S Companion Mode

The pandemic changed the patterns of collaboration and reinforced remote working worldwide. Most of the collaborative apps and services worked hard to offer more remote-driven features to their users. Google Meet is one of those apps that experienced massive growth during the pandemic, along with Zoom. According to the latest Google announcements, the Nest Hub Max users and other certified devices will soon be able to receive Google Meet’s second-screen Companion Mode....

January 25, 2023 · 2 min · 294 words · Ryan Kelley
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