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The more time young adults spend on social media, the more likely they are to become depressed, a study has found. Of the 19 to 32-year-olds who took part in the research, those who checked social media most frequently throughout the week were 2.7 times more likely to

  Welcome to today’s ComputerworldUK Daily Digest. We explore devops and ask, what is it?! Also, why your business should upgrade to Windows 10 and what 2016 has instore for Dell. Plus: what publishers should do about adblocking. What is devops? The ultimate definition We explore what

A year ago, researchers at Bielefeld University showed that their software endowed the walking robot Hector with a simple form of consciousness. Their new research goes a step further: they have now developed a software architecture that could enable Hector to see himself as others see him.

Messages, feared to be from Isis recruiters, sent on Sunday after video online apparently showed young people celebrating attacks Molenbeek in Brussels. Youths complain that some employers will not hire anyone with a postcode from the area. Photograph: Alamy Young men in the Molenbeek district of Brussels

Instagram’s feed is about to completely change. But there’s no reason to panic, or actually do anything at all. The site has announced that it will introduce an “algorithmic timeline” rather than sorting its posts chronologically. Instagram announced the change weeks ago, but a rumour just caught

Windows Server 2016 is set to launch in the second half of this year. Computerworld UK looks at the new features announced in technical previews so far. With Windows Server 2016, Microsoft aims to assist customers in modernising on-premise data centres and making it easier to move

Two Tenerife lizards (Gallotia galloti) are basking. The image on the left is in human-visible colours and although the male at the top is more colourful than the female at the bottom, he is still fairly well camouflaged amongst the foliage. However, the dusky blue/grey patches on

Do you use animated GIFs as part of your social media strategy? Interested in how you to create them and make them work for you? In the early days of the Internet, animated GIFs had a bit of a bad reputation – poorly drawn, cheesy artwork whose

JetBrains is developing a cross-platform IDE for C# that could serve as a potential rival to Microsoft’s own Visual Studio IDE. Code-named Project Rider, the IDE constitutes a .Net IDE from JetBrains and leverages the company’s IntelliJ and ReSharper development technologies. Early features include smart navigation and

Instagram on Tuesday announced plans to dump chronological posts in favor of algorithmic recommendations. Users miss about 70 percent of the content that flows through their feeds, which the company attributed to its growth and its system for ordering content. The new algorithm, which will begin rolling