Yik Yak’s revived messaging app was supposed to bring back the days of truly anonymous local chat, but it may have inadvertently made life easier for creeps. Computer science student David Teather informed Motherboard that Yik Yak had a flaw that let attackers obtain both the precise location for posts (within 10 to 15 feet)…
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Social media can connect you to friends and family, bring you the latest and most important news, and help you discover art, opinions, and places you would otherwise never have come across. But these platforms can also trigger negative emotions, make you dissociate from what’s happening around you, and act as a potentially dangerous time…

Including social determinants of health in sepsis readmission models could improve their predictive ability, a new study shows. For the study, published this past week in the Journal of American Medical Informatics Association, University of California, San Diego researchers used data from the National Institutes of Health’s All of Us research program cohort. …

Happy first Monday in May to all those who celebrate. Now that we’re mostly over the fact that they named the theme of this year’s Met Gala almost the exact same as last year’s (we know, we know, it’s part two of the same theme), we are here to round up the best part of…

This story has been updated. It was originally published on February 7, 2018. Your social media accounts help you share your daily life with friends. But the platforms can go further than that: automatically alerting everyone when you become available online, read a message, or even visit a location. As a general rule, if you…

Are you looking for content ideas to share with your social media followers? Want to mix up your posts and improve your social media marketing strategy? The team from Big Income Paradise share their quick tips for success in this infographic. They break things down as follows: Content ideas for stories Share quotes Ask questions Days…

CHICAGO — To give a sense of how social factors affect someone’s health, Sarah Candler, MD, MPH, described this case: A 70-year-old woman with diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, and high blood pressure and a high hemoglobin A1C, even though she’s on insulin. This patient is on prednisone for her RA because she can’t afford better drugs, and…

“Wait, I need to do my BeReal!” This phrase interrupted enough conversations with friends over the past few weeks that it convinced me to download the app for myself.For the unfamiliar, BeReal is an emerging social media platform that prompts users at a different, randomly chosen time each day to take a candid snapshot. You…

Quick. List your top goals for 2022. If you said brand awareness, acquisition, conversions and retention—you’ve got a lot on your plate (like most marketers). Luckily, you can achieve them all with social media. The caveat? Your paid and organic efforts must be integrated or your results could suffer. You’ll get more out of social…

By Robert Preidt HealthDay ReporterHealthDay ReporterTUESDAY, March 29, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Your child’s risk of harm from social media is higher at certain ages and it’s different for girls and boys, researchers report.To figure out how social media use affected “life satisfaction” among 10- to 21-year-olds, the investigators analyzed long-term data on 17,400 young…