Tag Archives: Teens

HOUSTON – Rodolfo Angel Peña, 23, was an aspiring model and psychology student from Laredo, Texas, who dreamed of one day becoming a U.S. Border Patrol agent or seeing where his charm and good looks would take him. On Friday, he and some friends drove the five hours from Laredo to Houston to blow off steam at the Travis Scott show at the Astroworld music festival. By Saturday afternoon, his family was making funeral arrangements for him. Peña was one of eight people who died Friday night… Source link

Getty images The former Google CEO and his wife, Wendy, announce the winners of their nearly year-long global competition to find and fund teenagers committed to changing the world. It’s just the beginning. Aryan Sharma is a promising 16-year-old in India. He’s already founded a couple small companies, one focused on education and another aimed at helping working-class Indians find jobs, but he has bigger ideas for ways to merge artificial intelligence and medicine. The… Source link

Authorization for Moderna’s (MRNA) COVID-19 vaccine for ages 12-17 was put on hold Friday in light of concerns over a rare side effect known as myocarditis, or a heart inflammation. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration decision gives Pfizer’s (PFE), which has a similar technology, an advantage in the market. In advisory panel discussions prior to Pfizer’s authorization for adolescents, the myocarditis risks were raised, but ultimately the panel decided the benefits outweigh the risks. As a… Source link

The coronavirus pushed some Americans to abandon cash, and a new report was “somewhat surprised” that one demographic remains loyal: Teens. The findings were based on data from Piper Sandler’s fall 2021 “Taking Stock with Teens” survey, a semi-annual survey that was conducted between August 17 and September 16 and compiled responses from 10,000 teens (average age 15.8) across 44 U.S. states. According to Piper Sandler, which titled the chart below as “Cash Is (Still) King For Teens’ Top… Source link

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes using apps on Android devices alone. And in the U.S., app usage surged ahead of the time spent watching live TV. Currently, the average American 

kate_sept2004 / Getty Images Teenagers are suddenly a hot commodity in the U.S. labor market this summer, as employers scramble to fill jobs in a market where numerous industries face severe worker shortages. See: Teens Can Expect Plenty of Job Opportunities This Summer, and Wages Are UpFind: Should Teens Save for College or Retirement? Take Our Poll Nearly six million Americans between the ages of 16 and 19 are leveraging a shortage of adult workers to find jobs this summer, the Financial… Source link

A Kentucky teenager’s artwork in memory of his late father will appear on computers around the world Tuesday. Milo Golding’s “Finding Hope” was named the winner of the 2021 Doodle for Google competition, and the piece will appear on Google homepages. Golding, an 11th grader at Lexington Christian Academy, was told the good news by Google CEO Sundar Pichai after being named one of five finalists out of 54 students from every U.S. state and territory. “I can’t tell you how inspiring we found… Source link

A teenage girl typed out a message on her phone and had it passed to her dad while allegedly being sexually touched by a stranger sitting next to her, a court document has revealed. The 16-year-old was in the middle seat on a flight from Phoenix in the US state of Arizona, to Anchorage in Alaska, on April 26 when a 58-year-old allegedly touched her inappropriately.  Kepueli Talaiasi was in the aisle seat while his son slept in the window seat for the evening flight, the District of Alaska… Source link

A heartbroken Queensland couple is urging drivers to be safe on the roads as they mourn their eighth Christmas without their eldest child. In December 2012, Jordan McGuinness was four-and-a-half months into his carpentry apprenticeship in Brisbane and “flourishing”, his parents, Melissa and Peter, told Yahoo News Australia. After gathering with his work colleagues for a Christmas party on a Friday night, the 18-year-old, who had alcohol and marijuana in his system, decided to drive home to… Source link

In The Know is committed to finding you the best products at the best prices. The product written about here is offered in affiliation with In The Know’s parent company, Verizon Media. If there’s one gift category that’s sure to please the teens in your life, it’s tech. And when it comes to gadgets, smartphones are pretty high on the “want” list. If you have a teen who’s been begging for a smartphone all year, snagging one of the many options available with Yahoo Mobile is your… Source link