Instagram? TikTok? YouTube? Facebook? What has been your go-to app of 2019 and why have they become more addictive than before?

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Trends come and go, and some can stick around for years - recently it’s like there’s a new over-the-top food trend lurking around every corner of social media. Where do we draw the line?

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Food trends may seem simple on the surface, but there’s actually a science behind how it all happens. There’s a sequence of events that lead to a certain type of food blowing up in mainstream consciousness - and oftentimes this sequence is engineered by people behind the scenes.

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From Donut Burgers, Tim Tam Slams, Plant based proteins and Oat Milk. These have been some of the big food trends and fads of 2019. Which food fad have you fallen for?

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We will spend $42bn (£34bn) globally on 225 million wearable devices such as smart watches this year, consultancy Gartner predicts. So perhaps it’s no surprise workplaces are exploring their potential too. Wearables that monitor physical performance have become commonplace for professional athletes and Dr Chris Brauer, from Goldsmiths, University of London, thinks they’ll move into white-collar environments too.

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Pesky millennials everywhere have started to question the contents of their perfume. Not.

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If it seems like all your friends have smartphones, you may be onto something. A new report by Common Sense Media, a nonprofit that reports on technology and media for children, found that by the age of 11, more than half of kids in the U.S. have their own smartphone. By age 12, more than two-thirds do, and by 14, teens are just as likely as adults to own a smartphone. Some kids start much younger. Nearly 20% of 8-year-olds have their own smartphone.

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From ELMo to Big BIRD, Rosita to RoBERTa and at least two ERNIEs and a KERMIT, these aren’t just the names of Sesame Street characters but also AI languages to-date. Why do these developers name their AI languages after puppets? The reason for this is actually really simple.

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All I want for Christmas is… for Mariah to shut it.

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There are some buildings that have missing floors, where a black cat will never be found, and everyone walks around the ladders whilst touching wood. For many people this might seem a little odd, but there are some businesses who firmly believe that superstitions have a direct impact on their bottom line.

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