Doctors have been warning about the mental health problems caused by prolonged screen time. A study published in JAMA Network Open concluded that reducing this activity helps reduce anxiety, stress, insomnia, and promotes socialization.

The idea was to ask the participants, nearly 400 young people between 18 and 24 years old, not to use Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, and X for seven days. Dr. John Torou, co-author of the study, notes that some participants did not complete the test. Nevertheless, the results are encouraging, as there was significant clinical improvement “across key areas after just seven days. The data indicated that symptoms of depression decreased by 24.8%, anxiety by 16.1%, and sleep problems fell by 14.5 %.”

Digital phenotyping revealed that, although social media use dropped from about two hours a day to just 30 minutes, total screen time increased slightly by 4.5 %, and participants spent 6.3 % more time at home. This suggests that participants shifted from endlessly scrolling through TikTok to other digital activities such as messaging, browsing the internet, or playing games.

According to the specialist, “the problem isn’t the screen itself, but how we use it. The study indicates that screen time has a weak association with mental health, since what’s truly harmful is problematic use, such as negative social comparison or emotional addiction to the platforms.”

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As technology imposes new modalities in services, citizens make it clear what they need. The banking sector is where the importance of digitization is most evident.

The Venezuelan banking context is marked by two segments that increasingly make it clearer what they want. Pensioners and young people, who have benefited from an acceleration and opening in terms of banking and the offer of new payment mechanisms.

Digital transactions have been gaining ground, in the midst of a dollarized market. But this is not a problem for the citizen, since most of the banks already offer the purchase and exchange of currencies, as well as the reception of remittances.

Changes in terms of digitization are not aimed at losing contact with customers, but rather at offering faster, more reliable, safer, and more efficient mechanisms.

With the support of the Superintendency of Institutions of the Banking Sector of Venezuela (Sudeban), the entity that regulates banking activity in the country, banks have made great strides to adapt to the new global financial reality, hand in hand with technology. Now the offer of digital services is broader.

Said services are designed taking as a reference what the client needs in terms of means of payment in daily life, payments for national and international services via the Internet, exchange mechanisms, among others.

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About 40 % of teenage users prefer platforms like TikTok or Instagram to search, instead of doing them through Google Maps or the Google search engine, according to a study carried out by the technological giant.

However, “these constantly receive false and misleading claims when they search TikTok for information on prominent news topics”, whether it be the Russian invasion of Ukraine, school shootings or Covid vaccines, as is clear from an investigation. made by NewsGuard.

This organization, specialized in combating false information, has identified in the analyzed sample that almost 20 % of the videos that appeared in the search results contained erroneous information.

NewsGuard analyzed 540 TikTok search results, ranging from more neutral terms like ‘2022 election’, ‘climate change’ and ‘mRNA vaccine’ to more controversial ones like ‘Jan 6 FBI’ and ‘Uvalde conspiracy’.tx’. Of the total videos results analyzed on TikTok, the analysis revealed that 105 videos (19.4 %) contained false or misleading claims.

The researchers note that TikTok’s own search engine suggested more controversial search terms when more neutral ones were entered. As an example, they explain that when typing ‘climate change’, TikTok suggested searching for others such as ‘climate change discredited’ and ‘climate change does not exist’. In the case of ‘Covid vaccine’, the suggestions included ‘covid vaccine truths’, ‘covid vaccine exposed’, ‘Covid hiv vaccine’ and ‘Covid vaccine warning’.

In the results of Google’s analysis, NewsGuard states that this engine offered “easier” suggestions, such as ‘Covid vaccine walk-in’, ‘which Covid vaccine is the best’ and ‘types of Covid vaccines’ in the case of searching ‘Covid vaccine. “None of these terms were suggested by TikTok,” they point out from NewsGuard, who indicate that “by comparison, it provided higher quality and less polarizing results, with much less misinformation.”

TikTok contents removed for misleading

TikTok, for its part, ensures that it will remove any content, regardless of format, that violates the community standards, which includes “spam or false participation, identity theft or misleading information that causes significant damage”, as stated in the Integrity and Authenticity section.

According to the latest ‘Community Standards Compliance Report’ available (January-March 2022), the company removed 102,305,516 videos from the platform for non-compliance with policies, only 0.6 % for the issues listed in the section ‘Integrity and Authenticity’.

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The concept of “talent” is usually associated with innate ability and creation that are displayed in the performance of some specific activity, both material and intellectual, so it has to do with aptitude and intelligence at the same time.

It is no secret that soccer is a very complete sport that combines abilities or skills with strategies and tactics, and that requires constant physical and mental preparation, as well as cultivating and valuing teamwork.

If the term “gift” is understood or assumed as a special ability and capacity, it will be taken as the most distinctive characteristic of the person who has it. People can present gifts, related to the physical and the mental, even the spiritual and reflective.

Secasports: Quarry where they are trained from a young age and future great footballers are promoted

In Valencia, Carabobo state, is Secasports, the Junior Soccer School conceived and established by Sebastián Cano Caporales; In our opinion –after following up, monitoring and learning about it– a formidable pool of good athletes and well-rounded citizens.

A dream come true for its founder, to whom we decided as a group El Sumario, especially this medium as well as Puro Vinotinto, have multiple conversations from this installment, to get to know better various and interesting aspects of his performance and career as a trainer, and in some cases as an agent, of Venezuelan soccer talents.

Below we can appreciate and invite you to enjoy the video coverage and conversation with Sebastián Cano Caporales, this time on the topic: Talent.

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Inflation has impacted or will negatively impact the cost of the school year for Spaniards, who will spend an average of 419 euros per child, although they see digital tools as a way to save between 11 % and 30 %.

Compared to last year, an increase in the average cost per child of 94.84 euros is perceived. The autonomous communities most affected by inflation are Asturias, Canarias, Aragón, Castilla y León and the Community of Madrid. This is how a recent survey carried out by the GoStudent private class platform collects it.

53 % of Spaniards allocate between 11 % and 30 % of their salary to expenses related to going back to school and consider that the use of digital tools can help minimize this expense: 43 % of parents in our country think that, for example, e-books or online tutoring could help them save considerably.

On the other hand, those surveyed affirm that this year the cost per child will rise to 419 euros on average compared to 324 euros the previous year, which represents an increase of almost 30 %. The great part of this expense comes from the purchase of books and school supplies, uniforms as well as extracurricular and support activities (73 % of Spanish parents have enrolled their children in private classes at least once and 52 % are considering it) for the new course.

Another of the noteworthy aspects of the study is that 72 % consider private online classes as a good way to save resources, thanks to their flexible nature and variety of schedules. And, more specifically, almost 50 % of those surveyed affirm that the use of private online classes will help save on their children’s academic training during this course.

New technologies stand out in the educational sector

The students that today are found in primary and secondary classrooms are digital natives and for this reason the educational sector is adopting new technologies to incorporate new ways of teaching through video games, artificial intelligence (AI) or computer science virtual reality.

The applications of technologies such as AI allow the creation of personalized educational plans for each student based on the profile and needs of each student. In Spain, 23 % of schools have adaptive learning tools. In addition, ‘online’ tutorials already account for 14 % of the total number of private classes that take place every day.

According to the GoStudent Education Report, Spanish parents have the best opinion about adaptive learning and the use of artificial intelligence in education. 55 % welcome these technologies taking part in their children’s education.

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