TikTok is currently fighting an existential battle in the U.S. Supreme Court, and so far, it appears that the companys arguments might not be enough to avoid a ban in the country. The arguments have mostly focused on concerns around national security and free speech, but there is another aspect that could hurt the social media giant.According to fresh research from the University of California San Francisco, a majority of children are using TikTok against the platforms age-related policies. It further adds that 11- and 12-year-olds also show signs of addiction, and some hide social profiles from their parents.Recommended VideosThe study, which sourced data from 10,000 children across the country in the age group of 10-15 years, focused on the usage of TikTok, Instagram, and Snapchat, among other platforms.Please enable Javascript to view this contentJason Nagata (MD), a pediatrician at UCSF Benioff Childrens Hospitals, noted that TikTok is the most popular social app among children (67.1%), highlighting its harm potential.A quarter of the children who participated in the study said they often thought about social media platforms, and an equal number also mentioned that these apps help them forget about their problems.Notably, 17% of the children reported that they wanted to cut down on social media usage, but they simply couldnt pull it off, while a healthy 11% labeled it as detrimental to their academic activities.The research, which has been published in the Academic Pediatrics journal, also underlines how social media usage among underage children, some as young as 11 years old, is linked to elevated depression, disruptive behavior, and eating disorders. The findings are not surprising.The likes of Instagram have received flak for aggravating body image issues among young users. Digital Trends investigation also unearthed a dark underbelly of drugson the Meta-owned platform. Amnesty Internationals research recently uncovered how TikTok was serving harmful mental health content to children.Policymakers need to look at TikTok as a systemic social media issue and create effective measures that protect children online, Nagata, who is also the lead author of the study, was quoted as saying.The research paper suggests policymakers should also focus on how platforms like TikTok are harming children. Moreover, the experts recommend stronger age verification on social media platforms, more robust parental control tools, and tighter privacy protocols.Editors Recommendations

Gov. Newsom has expressed concern that Trump would withhold disaster aid."He's tried to do it in the past," Newsom said during a recent taping of "Pod Save America."Los Angeles is fighting multiple devastating wildfires.Gov. Gavin Newsom of California said President-elect Donald Trump may seek to withhold federal disaster aid to California as multiple wildfires rage in and around Los Angeles."He's been pretty straightforward about that," Newsom said on the "Pod Save America" podcast, which was posted Saturday morning. "He's tried to do it in the past. He's not just done it here in California.""He's done it in states all across the country," Newsom continued. "In 2018, even before I was governor of California, he tried to withhold money down in Orange County until apparently a staff member and this has been well reported said there were a lot of Trump supporters. And, then, he decided to change his mind."Former Trump White House official Mark Harvey told Politico last year that Trump initially declined to authorize disaster aid for California because it leans Democrat but reversed his position after learning that the affected area was in Orange County, which for generations had been a GOP stronghold."We went as far as looking up how many votes he got in those impacted areas to show him these are people who voted for you," Harvey told the outlet ahead of the November 2024 election.JPMorgan analysts said the blazes tearing through the Los Angeles region could lead to over $20 billion in insured losses and about $50 billion in total economic losses. That would make these conflagrations "significantly more severe" than the Camp Fires that struck the state in 2018 and racked up $10 billion in insured losses, the current record.During the podcast on Saturday, Newsom also called out Trump for spreading what he called "indelible misinformation." Trump has blamed the governor's water policies for the devastating fires."What the president-elect was saying about State Water Project and the Delta smelt somehow being culpable of somehow leading to some of the challenges that we face down hereit's delusional," he said.Emergency workers fighting the LA fires have reported fire hydrants running dry after unprecedented demand on the water system. Newsom on Friday ordered a probe into the source of the water supply issues."I am calling for an independent investigation into the loss of water pressure to local fire hydrants and the reported unavailability of water supplies from the Santa Ynez Reservoir," he wrote in a post on X. "We need answers to ensure this does not happen again and we have every resource available to fight these catastrophic fires."More than 150,000 residents have been ordered to evacuate their homes and over 38,000 acres have so far burned in the fires. The death toll has risen to 11 as of Saturday, according to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner.President Joe Biden on Thursday announced that the federal government would cover 100% of the cost of disaster aid for 180 days.Trump, meanwhile, has been relentless in his criticism of both Newsom and Biden."The fires in Los Angeles may go down, in dollar amount, as the worst in the History of our Country," he said in a Truth Social post on Wednesday. "Let this serve, and be emblematic, of the gross incompetence and mismanagement of the Biden/Newscum Duo."In a statement to Business Insider, Trump spokesperson Steven Cheung said Newsom "should be doing his fucking job and actually help people who continue to suffer under his terrible leadership."

A Los Angeles County official criticized GoFundMe, citing a large fee for a donation she made.The official, however, was likely mistaken about the size of the fee.The moment illustrated the heightened emotions among those fighting the fires in Los Angeles County.A Los Angeles County official publicly criticized GoFundMe on Saturday for charging people high transaction fees for fire-related fundraisers.The official, however, was likely mistaken about the size of the fee.It was an emotionally charged moment that brought home the stress and financial pressure facing many residents of Los Angeles County as the fires raged for the fifth consecutive day.Thousands have lost their homes, and hundreds of thousands have been ordered to evacuate or warned they may need to at any moment.During a press conference updating the public on the scale of the disaster and what emergency crews and officials were doing to help,"Let me go off-script for a minute," Barger said. Barger said she intended to donate $500 through GoFundMe to a friend who had "lost everything" in the fires."I was shocked to find out that to give $500, they were going to charge me $95," she said. "So, I'm going to be reaching out to the CEO of GoFundMe to find out if, at the very least, they can cut the cost in order to ensure that the money goes directly to the family."Barger said she understood that GoFundMe is a company and "they deserve to be able to pay for their overhead, but at the same time, we are in a crisis.""These families are suffering," she said.Barger did not immediately respond to a request for additional comment, but she was likely mistaken about the size of the fee.GoFundMe charges 2.9% plus $0.30 for each transaction, which "helps us pay our payment processors and safely deliver funds," the company said in a statement to Business Insider. There is also an option "tip" that users can leave that goes to the platform.According to the above numbers, a $500 donation would incur less than $15 in required fees."The comments made at the press conference were inaccurate," the spokesperson said. "GoFundMe is primarily powered by voluntary tips and relies on these completely optional contributions from donors to maintain our quality customer service, trust and safety protections, and world-class fundraising technology."GoFundMe has become the default fundraising platform for those suffering from disasters in the United States, as well as elsewhere in the world. When fires tore through Maui in 2023, users donated some $30 million to relief efforts, GoFundMe told Fox Business at the time.Many of the residents who have lost their homes will be forced to scramble to find new ways to pay for housing and rebuild after insurance companies, since 2022, stopped writing new policies for fire coverage, pulled back coverage, or dropped residents altogether.In March, State Farm, the state's largest home insurance provider, dropped 72,000 property policies in the state, including 69% of policies in Pacific Palisades. The recent fires hit Pacific Palisades hard, burning thousands of homes, including those of many celebrities.

Last year, Macross was supposed to land on Disney+ as part of an effort to bring the franchise outside of Japan, particularly the west. At the time, this was a big deal since the various companies in control of it and its western equivalent Robotech came to an agreement after theyd spent years not being on the best of terms. For whatever reason, the jump to Disney+ didnt seem to happen in 2024 as planned, but it seems thats now happening for real in the next few days. According to a tip provided to Anime News Network, 16 of the 18Macrossanime shows and films will hit Disney+ and Hulu in the US this Monday, January 13. It seems that time off hasnt fixed the franchises weird issues here in the west: when Macrossarrives, neither Super Dimension Fortress Macrossand its film version,Do You Remember Love?,will be on Disney+ or Hulu. Theyre two very key parts of the entire enterprise, but Harmony Golds hold on the license prevents those from being globally streamed outside of Japan. So the full list of Macross media hitting on Monday is as follows: Macross Zero Macross 7 Macross 7: The Galaxy is Calling Me! Macross Fb7 Listen to My Song! Macross Frontier Macross Fronter: The False Songstress Macross Fronter: The Wings of Farewell Macross Fronter: Labyrinth of Time Macross Dynamite 7 Macross Delta the Movie: Passionate Valkyrie Macross Delta: Absolute Live!!!!!! Macross Plus Macross Plus Movie Edition Gekij Tanpen Macross Frontier Toki no Meiky The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Flash Back 2012 The Super Dimension Fortress Macross II: Lovers, Again It may be incomplete, but its still not a bad amount of Macross stuff coming to the services. Like last year, we hope things work out to where the two versions of Super Dimensionjoin the rest of their animated brethren, and the entire franchise is watchable all in one place. Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel, Star Wars, and Star Trek releases, whats next for the DC Universe on film and TV, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who.

This week at CES, Sony revealed it was adding even more video games to its already sizable roster of adaptations, including Guerrilla Games Horizonfranchise. After the intended Netflix series collapsed following abuse allegations against showrunner Steve Blackman, Sonys decided to pivot it into a full-on film. Among PlayStations first-party lineup,Horizonoccupies a weird space. While its two mainline games seemingly sold well, the series has gained a bit of an online reputation as an industry plant boosted by PlayStation Studios CEO Hermen Hulst, who previously ran Guerrilla as it was making Horizon Zero Dawn. Theres also just been a general pushback against Sonys efforts to grow out whatever it can into a franchise, and Horizon sure has been making moves to expand. Along with a third single-player game in development, theres been the Call of the Mountain VR game, at least two rumored multiplayer spinoffsone co-op, the other an MMOand last years double whammy of a spinoff Lego game and a PlayStation 5 re-release of the first game. Next to Naughty Dogs Last of Us,this might be the most persistent PlayStation franchise in terms of frequently reminding you it exists, and if you know how people feel about that franchises tendency to not go away, youll know thats far from a compliment. Image: Guerrilla Games/PlayStation Horizon has always been an odd duck, much of which can be owed to when it exists. Previous first-party PS titles like God of War Ragnark orMarvels Spider-Man 2came out amid busy periods, but they at least had the potential to carve their own niche. Seeing promos of Kratos and Atreus facing down a wolf, or the two Spideys doing the same with Venom, made you want to set time aside for them. PlayStation makes blockbuster games and those two titles, plus the Last of Us,command your attention like blockbuster movies often do, whether they hit in the summer or Christmastime. To Guerrillas credit, both of the core Horizon games have tried to command similar attention, its just that their momentum was completely, hilariously undercut. Zero Dawn released in February 2017, just three days before the Nintendo Switch launched alongside Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. That games impact could only be described as meteoric, both for Nintendo and the industry as a whole. Breath of the Wildchanged how critics and players viewed games from that particular franchise and open-world titles overall, and dominated much of the 2017 conversation. Come 2022, Guerrilla releasedHorizon Forbidden West,which released just a full week ahead ofElden Ring. LikeBreath,FromSoftwares gothic roguelike was a gamechanger that folks couldnt stop talking about, in turn sucking all the oxygen out of the room. It helped that things Froms profile had grown throughout the 2010s thanks to its Dark Soulsgames, 2019sSekiro: Shadows Die Twice,and a little PS4 game by the name ofBloodborne.So yes, things havent always been in Horizonsimmediate favor, and it can sometimes feel like its one or three steps behind fellow open-world or RPG contemporaries. But the games are good in their own right. Zero DawnandForbidden Westwere both regarded fairly well critically and commercially, and if anything, their ability to endure despite being overwhelmed by bigger competition may have further endeared them to players. This series isnt really an underdog amongst the PlayStation pantheonthat honor, depending on who you ask, might go to Days Gonebut its managed to feel like one in part because of how different it is to its first-party peers. In 2017, the then-recentUncharted 4and upcomers likeGod of Waror Marvels Spider-Manhad a built-in audience who all had some idea of what to expect. Horizonwas a noted departure for Guerrilla, which had spent late 00s and early 2010s on its series ofKillzoneshooters, so the pivot from military sci-fi to a lush post-apocalypse was an attention-grabber. Theres always been something compelling about Horizon thats clearly resonated with audiences, even as the series has kept stepping into Native and Indigenous appropriation. Maybe it was the look of the robot animals or the fun of sniping off their points, or it was the games throwing out more bonkers (but still pretty logical) twists to their stories. It could also just be series lead Aloy, who debuted right as triple-A developers were beginning a new, ongoing (and increasingly more diverse) wave of major women-led games. That it took nearly an entire decade and public criticism against E3 2014 for studios to make games with more women is extremely depressing, but whatever, this is how things shook out. Guerrilla gave PlayStation a first-party franchise driven primarily by Aloys relationships, both platonic and romantic, with women of different stripes, and that approach has since become part of the triple-A game playbook.With the solid amount of general goodwill Horizons managed to build up, cashing in on that makes sense. But there are challenges ahead for these various projects, namely the increasing risk of ongoing multiplayer games and Sonys tendency to get in the way of their own movies. Thus far, the series has withstood two big gaming competitors, but those are different beasts compared to an entire genre slowly closing in on itself or a parent company scaling back plans it previously (and loudly) set in stone. However things shake out, can we at least not getGuerrilla caught in a loop where its remastering and remaking the games for half a decade? Please? Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel, Star Wars, and Star Trek releases, whats next for the DC Universe on film and TV, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who.

House Victoria / MedinaMas/ArqSave this picture! Patricio lvarezHousesSan Salvador de Jujuy, ArgentinaArchitects: MedinaMas/ArqAreaArea of this architecture projectArea:150 mYearCompletion year of this architecture project Year: 2021 ManufacturersBrands with products used in this architecture project Manufacturers: FV, Vexar, corralon el mercado, ferrum, supermat Lead Architects: Arq. Gabriela Medina- Arq. Martin Mas More SpecsLess SpecsSave this picture!Text description provided by the architects. The project is located in La Almona, a foothills area on the outskirts of San Salvador de Jujuy, on a steeply sloping terrain with impressive views. The idea arose from the premise of capturing the incredible views of the hills and adapting to the topography of the lot.Save this picture!Save this picture!The house was designed with the idea of responding to the site by adapting to the topography and seeking to capture the incredible views of the hills. In a search to adapt to the natural slope of the hillside, the social area was planned on the ground floor and taking advantage of the natural unevenness of the terrain, it was decided to place the bedrooms in a basement to generate less impact on the environment. In this way, from the entrance you can see a house on one level, while from the back you can see the house on two levels open to the landscape.Save this picture!On the ground floor is the social area with the living room, dining room, kitchen, guest bedroom, bathroom and gallery. From the living room you can access a staircase that leads to the basement where the suite with a private bathroom and a desk are located. In the barbecue area, mobile wooden panels are incorporated to regulate privacy from the street.Save this picture!Save this picture!The materiality is resolved with few elements: concrete, wood and glass in a house in which the boundaries between interior and exterior dissolve in a warm environment with concrete and wood as protagonists.Save this picture!Project gallerySee allShow lessAbout this officeMedinaMas/ArqOfficeMaterialConcreteMaterials and TagsPublished on January 11, 2025Cite: "House Victoria / MedinaMas/Arq" [Casa Victoria / MedinaMas/Arq] 11 Jan 2025. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/1025505/house-victoria-medinamas-arq&gt ISSN 0719-8884Save!ArchDaily?You've started following your first account!Did you know?You'll now receive updates based on what you follow! Personalize your stream and start following your favorite authors, offices and users.Go to my stream

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While there are technically multiple antagonists that appear throughout the story of My Hero Academia, All For One is often presented as being the major villain of the overall series. This dark and twisted individual would make first his official appearance during the Hideout Raid Arc where he made quick work of multiple heroes, before engaging in an epic battle with All Might, forcing the latter to sacrifice his powers once and for all.