October 25, 2025

Predictive Data for Safer Roads & When Social Media Undermines Sex Ed

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Predictive Data for Safer Roads Drivers who use their phones behind the wheel are 240% more likely to crash. Now, with over 50 million users now opting into smartphone-based driving behavior monitoring to get lower insurance rates, Ryan McMahon, Senior VP at Cambridge Mobile Telematics, would like government agencies to utilize the treasure trove of personal data collected by insurance companies to develop prevention strategies and fix problem intersections.
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When Social Media Undermines Sex Ed Teens getting sex advice from Snapchat and Instagram might be setting themselves up for risky sexual behavior. Eric Anderman, Professor of Educational Psychology at Ohio State University, found that teens who turned to peer-interactive social media platforms like Snapchat, Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, and Instagram for sexual information demonstrated higher intentions to have sex, weaker condom-negotiation skills, and reduced confidence in refusing unwanted sexual encounters.
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Why Your Company's Cybersecurity Training Might Be Worthless Cybersecurity training programs are failing spectacularly—and putting lives at risk. Grant Ho, Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Chicago, says his research shows these initiatives barely reduce phishing risks at all. Whether employees completed training recently or months ago, their vulnerability to phishing attacks remained virtually identical.
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