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The life of Samuel Berman, a young college-hopeful junior in high school with straight-A’s, was tragically cut short after he accidentally overdosed on drugs, on Feb. 7.He purchased on the drugs on the social media app, Snapchat.Berman was one of many children and people who are struggling with boredom during the pandemic.The isolation led him to buy what he likely saw as a “safe” drug, and it turned out to be a fatal mistake.Samual had purchased drugs laced with fentanyl. It’s a drug hundreds of times more potent than heroin, that is both odorless and tasteless.Social media applications, such as Snapchat, have been popular in the drug-dealing world, as it’s a quick and easy way to sell and buy drugs. Unfortunately, most people don’t know the dangers it can cause.RELATED: After My Son Died From A Drug Overdose, I Nearly Died From DepressionDr. Laura Berman, the mother of Samuel, took to Instagram to spread the word about the dangers of social media.“My heart is completely shattered and I am not sure how to keep breathing. I post this now only so that not one more kid dies. We watched him so closely,” she said.Dr. Berman is a relationship therapist and best-selling author who…

Updated 7:12 pm CST, Friday, February 12, 2021 PHOENIX (AP) — The father of two Arizona siblings facing federal charges involving the attack on the U.S. Capitol has suggested without evidence that antifa and Democrats could have instigated the riots and he expressed shock about the arrests. Felicia and 25-year-old Cory Konold were arrested Thursday by the FBI in connection with the storming of the Capitol building on Jan. 6 in an attempt to stop Congress from certifying the election of President Joe Biden. The age of Felicia Konold hasn't not been released by authorities. Conspiracy, civil disorder and illegally entering a restricted building were among the charges filed Wednesday against the siblings in federal court in Washington. The siblings made their first court appearance Friday in Tucson. U.S. Magistrate Judge Eric Markovich said they are likely to be released from custody Thursday to home confinement and be required to wear electronic monitors to track their movements. Prosecutors allege the siblings conspired with the Kansas City chapter of the Proud Boys, a far-right, male chauvinist extremist group, during the attack. A probable cause affidavit alleged the siblings and others near the front of the crowd helped move and keep open barriers…

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All good things must come to an end—or at least become the subject of a scoldy Poynter article and a prominent New York Times tech reporter compiling a list of "issues and incidents." In this case, the target is Clubhouse, a nascent audio-only conversation app that's part-chatroom, part–conference panel, part–good happy hour, the kind where you leave feeling like your subway fare wasn't wasted. The Poynter piece levies complaints and concerns at the app, including that "Clubhouse's design inherently excludes people with certain disabilities" by making "zero affordances" for those who are deaf or hearing-impaired. (Unfortunately, it's fairly impractical to make real-time audio apps both accessible and enjoyable to deaf people.) But Poynter quickly moves on to its more central concern, which is that the app poses a problem for fact-checkers since it "doesn't keep old posts or audio files and doesn't allow users to record conversations." In fact, "there is no way to prove that someone said anything controversial at all," the article notes, citing Grit Daily's Olivia Smith. This seems like it would be bad for snitches and media industry narcs, of which there are many, but actually quite good for reducing the reach of misinformation, slurs, or controversial statements. Unlike Twitter and…

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Since Tesla founder Elon Musk’s recent Clubhouse appearance broke the start-up’s 5,000-person limit per room, the invite-only Silicon Valley darling is making a name for itself and is well on its way to becoming mainstream. The Andreessen Horowitz-backed audio social platform Clubhouse has gone from a small community of beta testers last March to a growing network of two million people. Only a year old, the start-up was recently valued at $1 billion. While the app is still in beta and requires an invite to join, it’s gotten a bit less exclusive as word has spread among early adopters, with about 3.4 million downloads to date. The company said it plans to open the app to anyone who wants to join “soon.” Recent Posts

A new analytics report has revealed the highest-grossing subscription apps on iOS for 2020. YouTube Premium heads the list, which allows subscribers to watch videos without ads, download them for offline viewing, and also includes access to YouTube Music Premium. The top 10 list unsurprisingly features four other streaming video services … Sensor Tower’s top 10 ranking includes Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max, and ESPN. YouTube Tinder Disney+ Pandora Bumble Hulu HBO Max YouTube Music ESPN Amazon Music The firm said that a trend toward subscription apps accelerated last year. Worldwide consumer spending in the top 100 non-game subscription-based apps grew 34 percent year-over-year from $9.7 billion in 2019 to $13 billion found that mobile game publishers were adopting subscription models at an increased rate in 2020, with eight of the 15 top grossing titles offering recurring in-app payments. This shift in strategy follows consumer trends—even before the COVID-19 pandemic, consumers have been spending more on the top subscription apps than in the past. From Q1 2019 to Q4 2020, U.S. consumers spent more in the top 100 subscription apps each successive quarter. This cohort of apps saw $1.7 billion in the final quarter of 2020, up 31 percent…

CRED Founder Kunal Shah predicts Tesla Founder Elon Musk may, in fact, end up running over four $500 billion companies and had many questions to the man himself on how he does it. These messages were sent on the micro-blogging platform Twitter, and even Harry Potter came into the conversation as Kunal referred to Musk as the 'Dark Lord', in reference to the central character of Lord Voldermort. Elon Musk, in fact, did reply to Kunal Shah’s tweet with a simple one-liner: “I’m an alien.”Elon Musk has multiple interests, including running his electric vehicle business Tesla, besides sending rockets to space via SpaceX. He is a strong votary of creating another human civilisation outside Earth — on Mars. These string of initiatives had Kunal buzzing with numerous questions: How does Elon Musk do it? How does he manage context switching? Or how does he design his organisation?In fact, Kunal did receive numerous messages on his Twitter handle on how Elon is able to manage such multiple and diverse ventures. The final answer rested with Elon Musk himself.To Elon Musk's message, Kunal replied: “Entrophy confirmed”. Entropy is defined as the measure of a system’s thermal energy per unit temperature that is…

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CLOSE White House press secretary Jen Psaki says President Joe Biden has directed his intelligence community to study the threat of domestic extremism in the U.S., an effort launched weeks after a violent mob loyal to Donald Trump stormed the Capitol. (Jan. 22) AP DomesticGoogle's YouTube is stillrecommending extremist and white supremacist videos to viewers already susceptible to racial hatred a new report found.Though the nation's most popular social media platform has removed large amounts of extremist content under political pressure, exposure to harmful videos is still common, and users who view extremist videos are still being recommended new clips in the same vein, according to a national study that ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) released Friday, an advance copy of which was shared exclusively with USA TODAY.One in 10 study participants viewed at least one video from an extremist channel and 2 in 10 viewed at least one video from an “alternative” channel, according to the study, which examined the viewing habits of 915 respondents. The study's authors defined extremist and alternative by drawing from published research on online radicalization.Trump and Capitol riot: When Trump started his speech before the Capitol riot, talk on Parler turned to civil warGOP loses big in Twitter purge: Trump allies and Republican lawmakers lost…