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Amber Heard chose to "limit" her Instagram comments as she treated her fans with a brand new picture from the beach. The actress has been subject to online trolling since she parted ways with former husband Johnny Depp.The Aquaman actress looked stunning in her latest picture shared on the photo and video sharing app. On the work front, she is all set to star in "Gully" which releases next month.Directed by Nabil Elderkin, the film follows the lives of three teens living in LA, all victims of extreme childhoods.

May 26, 2021 - Social media sites - especially Instagram - have revolutionized the way plastic surgeons market their practice. These platforms allow surgeons to post testimonials, educational videos, and before-and-after photos. This information can help to guide patients in making decisions about whether to undergo cosmetic surgery and which plastic surgeon to choose, based on factors like the surgeon's experience and results achieved. However, patient perceptions of plastic surgeons' skills may also be affected by implicit bias - based solely on the ethnicity of the surgeon's name. "In our survey of responses to otherwise-identical Instagram posts, the plastic surgeon's name significantly affected perceptions of surgeon competence," comments lead author Ash Patel, MB, ChB, of Albany (N.Y.) Medical Center. "The findings remind us that implicit bias plays a critical role in our day-to-day actions, whether or not we realize it," Dr. Patel adds. The study appears in the June issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery®, the official medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS). The researchers created a set of mock Instagram posts showing before-and-after photos of a breast augmentation patient. The posts were identical in every way - except for the plastic surgeon's name. Versions of…

Twitter continues its rollout of Spaces by adding the ability to join in-progress chats from the web for the first time. You can't create a Space yet, but that's likely in the works for a future update. Right now, Spaces on the web are still classed as a beta feature which means you might run into some issues here and there. Still, being able to listen in to a new Space is a good start – and you can set reminders to join a scheduled Space, too. Spaces are making their way to Twitter for web! Now you can join a Space to listen in, test out the new transcription design, and set reminders to join a scheduled Space. https://t.co/xFTEeAgM4x— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) May 26, 2021 Spaces are Twitter's answer to Clubhouse, allowing people to join rooms and talk in real-time while a moderator controls who can and cannot speak. The latest move comes after Twitter promised to bring Spaces to the web last month.  » Read More

In this week’s SportsMoney Playbook: the gaming world’s microchip dilemma, Naomi Osaka’s new threads and more money for digital collectibles. Plus: a trailblazing basketball recruiter shares her NBA dreams. Sports Business Tibles, a digital collectibles platform that uses blockchain technology to trade NFTs, announced a $1.14 million funding round led by Dapper Labs, the creator of NBA Top Shot. Another online marketplace for buying and selling collectibles, Whatnot, raised $50 million in Series B funding just three months after a $20 million Series A round. The audio-focused social media app Clubhouse is media's hot new property, but Twitter has been methodically building out a competitor over the last year. Sports leagues like MLB and the NBA have quickly taken to the product. College Sports A partnership between an early mover in the student-athlete social media space and a data analytics company known for industry valuations could give star college athletes like Paige Bueckers and Chet Holmgren an idea of the market value of their NIL rights.  » Read More

TikTok users are reminiscing about 2013, those halcyon days when Macklemore was gonna pop some tags, Miley Cyrus danced with a foam finger and, ironically, TikTok wasn't yet invented.A video by TikTok user @zayla.tpwk has amassed over 100,000 likes and made just as many feel old while doing so. The video features Zayla wishing she was a teenager in 2013.She responds to the questions, "why do you want to be a teenager in 2013," using the popular "are you on drugs?" TikTok audio, which is often used to demonstrate how obvious a question is. In the clip, images of One Direction, who were arguably at their most popular in 2013, flash onto the screen. "A dream I will never live," she captioned the video.For those who were teenagers in 2013, the viral video has acted as a stark reminder or time flowing too quickly. TikTok user @abejab hit over 200,000 views in nine hours with a shocked response to the video, "duetting" it with text reading: "Not us entering the 'I was born in the wrong generation' stage please i'm only 22." Teen angst manifesting itself as "born in the wrong generation" feelings is nothing new, but it's a message…

A draft of the "Sindh Compulsory Marriage Act, 2021" was submitted to the Sindh secretariat on Wednesday, and seeks to address "societal ills, child rapes, immoral activities and crime" by making it mandatory for children over 18 to marry. Under the proposed bill, parents will be required "submit an undertaking with justified reason of delay before the deputy commissioner of the district" if their children are not married, and upon failing to do so, they would have to pay a fine of Rs500 each. The bill also wants to put a ban on dowry and establish standard operating procedures (SOPs) for weddings. The draft was submitted by MMA MPA Syed Abdul Rasheed, who argued that this would help fight "competition" and motivate people to organise simpler weddings. Rasheed also announced the submission of the draft on his Twitter account. In a video, Rasheed claimed that the obstacles in the way of marriages nowadays, like unemployment and high costs, were a direct "result of distancing from Islamic teachings." He spoke about unemployment causing delay in marriages, saying the problem was "society's tendency towards competition", which had "spoiled a lot of legal and correct ways". As soon as the news of the…

LinkedIn has launched a set of new features and people are beyond impressed.The Mega employment-oriented online service has recently announced its new features including boosting organic posts and event advertisement along with two supplementary features that will largely benefit marketers on the platform. This week, Rishi JobanPutra, the senior director and product manager at LinkedIn enlightened the digital marketers of their new initiative through an online article. The article stated that the company would be incorporating easy and innovative post boosting, event advertisement, custom streaming, and ingenious event analytical tool into their program. Just like Facebook, LinkedIn now enables users to boost their post presence on the platform through just a single click followed by an uncomplicated payment process. All your well-performing articles can now be boosted directly through your LinkedIn page without calling for any marketing tools. The prime benefits of this service include expanding your reach, helping you grow, and amplifying the impact of your work.Ever since the pandemic, virtual pursuits have become the ruling interest of society. Among these, the upsurge of online events has made global web communication a trend. To facilitate these events, the ever-increasing event space is becoming even harder to keep track of.…

May 27, 202110:27 AM UTCReuters1 minute read1/2A Twitter logo is seen outside the company headquarters in San Francisco, California, U.S., January 11, 2021. REUTERS/Stephen LamA Russian court on Thursday said it had handed social network operator Twitter (TWTR.N) two fines totalling 7 million roubles ($95,310) for failing to delete banned content.Russia has taken steps in recent months to regulate and curb the power of social media and technology giants. More fines are expected to be announced later in the day.($1 = 73.4425 roubles)Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.Sign up for our newsletterSubscribe for our daily curated newsletter to receive the latest exclusive Reuters coverage delivered to your inbox.

Daisy Morris forgot her laptop inside a train in London (Representative Image)On Tuesday, when Daisy Morris, a UK-based social media and digital marketing professional, deboarded the London tube, she didn't realise that she had forgotten her laptop inside the train. Ms Morris had walked halfway up the platform when it dawned upon her that the laptop bag was still on the tube, which had already left for its next station. Ms Morris was upset as she conducted her entire business on the laptop, which she wasn't sure about seeing again. "I said a few explicit words and then cried for a bit, ran to the train conductor who told me he couldn't get through to lost property and gave me a form and told me it might take up to 7 days to hear back," she wrote in a LinkedIn post.Following her interaction with the train conductor, Ms Morris said that she was prepared to leave for Oxford Circus to get a new laptop. While she headed to the platform to catch the next tube to the Central, her phone rang and the man on the other side asked if he was speaking to Daisy Morris.The man -- identified only as Nahid…

Delete Snapchat account: Snapchat is probably the least popular of social media apps in the country now, having less than 1/3rd of users that WhatsApp and Facebook have. Most of its userbase are from countries like the US, parts of Europe, and other Middle East Asian markets. But steadily, Snapchat has brought its focus towards markets like India, by localising its content, features and more. So, if you had created a Snapchat account many years back, and don’t see the point of having one now, we look at how to delete Snapchat account and make sure the data stored on the platform is safe and secure with you. In this article, we not only look at how to delete Snapchat account, but also how to reactivate Snapchat account if you decide to get back to it later.Also read: Delete Instagram: How to delete/ deactivate your Instagram account Snapchat account deleteSnapchat is giving users the right to delete or deactivate their account. The process is simple, and all they have to do is login using their credentials into the Accounts page. Here is how you can delete Snapchat account.How to delete Snapchat accountOpen Snapchat account on web browserLogin with your detailsClick on…