Moltbook, a new website where AI programs can socialize with one another, has been gaining in popularity in recent days. Real people aren't allowed to post on the platform, but humans can scroll through Moltbook as observers. More than 1.6 million ...
It's only two weeks into 2026, but social media users are already feeling nostalgic and throwing it back to 2016 in a flurry of trending posts. The "2026 is the new 2016" trend has many, including celebrities like John Legend and Reese Wit...
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Utah has become the first US state to require social media firms get parental consent for children to use their apps and verify users are at least 18. The governor said he signed the two sweeping measures to protect young people in the st...
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The Australian Olympic track and field team is going into quarantine after they had contact with someone on the U.S. team whotested positive for COVID-19, the Australian Olympic Committee confirmed early Thursday. \\\"Members of Au...
Over-60s who relied on only telephone and online contact felt more lonely during the pandemic, a study suggests. "Virtual contact on its own is not beneficial to older adults' mental health," researcher Dr Yang Hu of La...
The director of the World Health Organization tweeted Sunday he will go into self-quarantine after coming into contact with someone who tested positive for COVID-19. Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he is well and not showing symptoms but...
Apple has begun letting its iPhones carry out contact-tracing without the need for users to download an official Covid-19 app. As an alternative, owners are being invited to opt in to a scheme called Exposure Notifications Express (ENE...
A yoga company in Toronto, Canada, has come up with an inventive way to allow people to return to group practice. LMNTS Studio has set up a series of bubbles in its outdoor pop-up studio for a few weeks. Canada has reported some 100,000 cas...
The team developing Switzerland's coronavirus contact-tracing app says it has become the first to have launched a product incorporating a technology provided by Apple and Google. Members of the Swiss army, hospital workers and civil servants...
At least 11 states are reporting increases in new COVID-19 cases, including Arkansas, which is apparently going through a second peak....
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health As the world responds to the COVID-19 pandemic, public health experts have identified contact tracing as a key strategy for limiting the spread of the virus. Contact tracers help provide guidan...
The NHS has released the source code behind its coronavirus contact-tracing app. More than 40,000 people have installed the smartphone software so far. The health service is targeting the Isle of Wight only, at this stage, but it says this ...
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The death rates in Philadelphia and St Louis during the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic demonstrate the importance of social distancing (Credit: National Academy of Sciences USA 2007) Countries around the world are implementing measu...
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China has launched an app that allows people to check whether they have been at risk of catching the coronavirus. The 'close contact detector' tells users if they have been near a person who has been confirmed or suspected of having the viru...