A study published in the British Journal of Health Psychology reveals the negative behavioral and psychological consequences of commercial fitness apps reported by users on social media. These impacts may undermine the potential of apps to promote health and wellbeing. When investigators used artificial intelligence (AI) using a method called Machine-Assisted Topic Analysis (MATA), which…
A major outage at Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Monday disrupted a large portion of the internet, taking down apps, websites and online tools used by millions of people around the world, before services were eventually restored. From banking apps and airlines to smart home devices and gaming platforms, the hours-long breakdown revealed how much…
This is Tom Jia. He’s a 28-year-old lifestyle influencer who calls himself a — Tangping, or “lying flat:” It’s a fast-growing lifestyle, rejecting social pressures to overwork and pursue material success. In China, young people face intense pressure to work grueling hours, buy a house and get married. Some are quietly rebelling and choosing to…
This is Ray Hou. She’s a — — at Repair Sisters. Repair Sisters is an all-female home repair company in the city of Chengdu, the first of its kind in China. In China, if you needed something fixed, most likely a man would show up at your door. Ray and her colleagues are changing that….
Millions of Americans took to the streets for “No Kings” protests, a mass mobilization aimed at opposing President Donald Trump’s administration and what participants describe as his authoritarian tendencies. Newsweek reached out to Trump’s representative via email for comment on Monday. Why It Matters With over 2,700 organized events reportedly drawing nearly 7 million demonstrators,…
An hours-long crash of Amazon Web Services sparked a wave of tongue-in-cheek, apocalyptic memes Monday as social media users coped with the disruption of major sites and apps around the world. Posts on X, Reddit and more mocked the meltdown with viral images including Homer Simpson warning “The end is near,” the popular cartoon-dog meme…
President Donald Trump has not introduced a three-day workweek, but searches for “Trump three day work week” have skyrocketed as social media has been inundated with claims that he did. Why It Matters Across the world, countries are experimenting with a four-day workweek following years of research into its benefits. The working world has also…
A man in eastern China who lavished chunks of a 10 million yuan (US$1.4 million) lottery win on a woman live-streamer but gave his wife nothing has captivated mainland social media. The man’s wife, surnamed Yuan, exposed his scandal to Henan TV in mid-October after filing for divorce. The couple, who live in Dezhou, Shandong…
Zehra Naqvi recalls the magical days of the early social internet. She grew up in the One Direction and Marvel fandoms in the early 2010s. This was back when people posted photos of lattes using the Valencia filter on Instagram, and Twitter was still Twitter, a place where people came together to exchange jokes and cultural analysis. But now Instagram is full…
The husband of a 28-year-old woman in China who was paralysed by a rare disease coaxed her to sell their home, then pocketed the proceeds before vanishing. “I would rather go to jail than return,” the man later told police. The case has captivated mainland social media after the Yangtze Evening News reported it. Before…