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Technology 28 May 2020 By Donna Lu Keeping up with friendsStephen Frost / Alamy People who are prone to comparing themselves with others, both offline and online, spend more time on Facebook. To see what effect the time spent on social media has on social comparison and self-perception, Moira Burke and her colleagues at Facebook…

By Donna Lu Keeping up with friendsStephen Frost / Alamy People who are prone to comparing themselves to others, both offline and online, spend more time on Facebook. To see what effect the time spent on social media has on social comparison and self-perception, Moira Burke and her colleagues at Facebook surveyed 37,729 people from…

Instagram accounts was that US President Donald Trump took a cheap shot at South Africa's governing party. "Can we all agree that the ANC is just a Mafia/mob of old people who only enrich specific families, friends, relatives, and their own families," Trump is claimed to have said, much to the delight of the party's detractors. FAKE…

Prescriptions for anti-anxiety medications and sleep aids have risen during the pandemic, prompting doctors to warn about the possibility of long-term addiction and abuse of the drugs. “Many physicians have a low threshold for prescribing them. It’s very problematic,” says Bruce J. Schwartz, deputy chair and professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Montefiore Medical…

Rand strengthens thanks to lockdown easingIn a statement on Monday, Sassa spokesperson Paseka Letsatsi said Sassa CEO Totsie Memela extended an "unreserved apology to those inconvenienced by the slower than expected process".Letsatsi also explained that the 10 were a sample used to test the efficacy of the payment mechanism.Explaining the cause of the delays, Memela-Khambula…