Hashtag Trending Oct. 6 – Social media and depression; Micron semiconductor investment; Google Cloud Region comes to South Africa
Social media use is associated to greater possibility of despair, Micron to spend $100 billion in its semiconductor source chain, and Google launches its initially cloud location in South Africa.
That is all the tech news that is trending suitable now, welcome to Hashtag Trending. It is Thursday, October 6, and I’m your host, Samira Balsara.
A recently revealed investigate uncovered that younger grownups who frequent social media are significantly more likely to create depression within six months. Despite the fact that social media use improves the possibility throughout all identity sorts, there are some discrepancies. For case in point, persons with superior agreeableness were being 49 per cent significantly less probable to produce despair than these with low agreeableness, and those people with high neuroticism had been twice as possible to create despair than those who are not when making use of extra than 300 minutes of social media for each day. The research implies that problematic social comparison can exacerbate one’s dissatisfaction towards themselves. Examining mostly adverse news is one more contributing element.
Micron is the most recent semiconductor corporation to announce a huge round of investments into its source chain. On Tuesday, the organization announced that it designs to commit as much as $100 billion about the subsequent 20 yrs to build a chip factory in New York. The new investments in semiconductor engineering was encouraged by authorities incentives, described the New York Situations, specially the Chips and Science Act, which delivers $52 billion in subsidies for semiconductor organizations. With this transfer, Micron is hoping to revitalize semiconductor generation in the location, as properly as to give as a lot of as 40,000 work involving Micron staff members and suppliers.
Google has released the 1st cloud location in South Africa, its initial in the continent. Additionally, TechCrunch reported that Google is also constructing devoted cloud interconnect websites, which connects on-premise networks with Google’s cloud grid. With the new enlargement, South Africa is now a aspect of Google’s 35 cloud areas. Now, people can deploy cloud sources from distinct geographic destinations, bringing the source nearer to its clients. The conclusion to start in South Africa was due to the region’s sector probable. Other cloud providers have picked up on this as well. The two Microsoft Azure and AWS have now established up their individual cloud networks in the location.
The aspects all around our very last story is not concrete, but YouTube seems to be testing locking the 4K resolution choice behind a paywall. The examination was very first posted by customers on Reddit and Twitter. Screenshots confirmed that for some consumers, the 4K resolution has been marked as a YouTube High quality aspect. TeamYouTube, YouTube’s formal Twitter account, explained to one particular person that they had been a section of an “experiment to know greater the function preferences” of viewers. The movie sharing platform has but to make any concrete announcements on how they’ll proceed with this check.
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