Teens: 4 Hrs Daily on Social Media; Intel Next Gen CPUs Drop Tomorrow; iPhone Sales to Slow Start in China; Australia Fines X Over Lack of Child Abuse Info

A new report from the Gallup Organization says that teens spend an average of 4.8 hours a day on social media. A little over half of US teens…51%…reportedly spend that kind of time on social media. The apps include YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, and X…formerly Twitter. Gallup surveyed over 1500 youngsters. The younger teens at age 13 spent 4.1 hours a day, while the 17 year olds spent an average of 5.8 hours a day on social media. Girls spend almost an hour more on social media than boys across the whole teen age range. YouTube and TikTok were by far and away the most popular social media apps with the teens.

Intel launches its latest, greatest 14th Gen CPUs tomorrow, October 17th. Theverge.com reports that the top of the line new chips boost frequencies of 6 Gigs out of the box. The chip is dubbed the Raptor Lake Refresh, and will be priced the same as its predecessor chips. Intel claims the new Core i9 14900K has the ‘fastest desktop processor at volume.’ The chip does go to 12 efficiency cores and 8 performance cores, up from 8 and 8 before. 

Apple’s iPhone sales out the door for the 15 models is less than they were doing with the iPhone 15’s at this point…but some 4.5%. bloomberg.com says Apple’s sales are not only reflecting stubbornly weak consumption as well as the rise of rivals like Huawei. Things are much better for Cupertino in the US, where it looks like the iPhone 15 has a double digit lead over the same 9 days of sales in 2022 for the iPhone 14. Back in China, the Huawei Mate Pro rolled out just weeks before the iPhone 15, and at a time when the Chinese government expanded its ban on government agencies and state companies using iPhones. 

The Australian regulator for online safety, eSafety, has fined X…formerly Twitter $386,000 for failing to answer “key questions” about the action the platform is taking against child abuse content. According to techcrunch.com, the agency also issued legal notices to Google, TikTok, Twitch, and Discord. None of the others were fined, although Google was warned that their responses were too generic. Twitter didn’t even attempt to respond to some questions. Although $386,000 is probably Elon’s lunch money for a couple days, X does get yet another knock to its tattered reputation.

I’m Clark Reid and you’re ‘Technified’ for now.