The Weekly Authority: 📅 Galaxy Unpacked date confirmed

⚡ Welcome to The Weekly Authority, the Android Authority e-newsletter that breaks down the highest Android and tech information from the week. The 227th version is right here with a confirmed Galaxy Unpacked date, Galaxy S23 teaser movies, eSIM switch profiles for Pixels, Ubisoft delays, AI interns, and far, far more.

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• Take a look at the very best new streaming films this week, from darkish comedy The Drop to COVID-era slasher Sick.
• The Fabelmans, The Banshees of Inisherin win huge at revamped Golden Globes — and here’s the best speech of the event — plus, Mashable has a whole record of winners.
• The Final of Us airs on HBO Max this weekend, and evaluations are already in, with Engadget saying it “efficiently trades hordes of monsters for emotional depth,” and the BBC calling it “the very best online game adaptation ever.”
• ‘M3GAN’ surprisingly dominates on the field workplace with $30M+ opening.
• We noticed a trailer for You season 4, and appears just like the tables are turned on Joe this time, with the primary a part of the brand new season premiering on Netflix February 9.
• Display screen Actors Guild Awards discover a new dwelling on Netflix in 2024; This 12 months’s present will stream on YouTube; All the things In all places All At As soon as and The Banshees Of Inisherin are among the many 2023 nominees.
• On the lookout for new exhibits to binge-watch in 2023? We’ve listed a number of the finest, from Stranger Issues to Breaking Unhealthy, The Flight Attendant, and A League of Their Personal.
• Additionally: Take a look at this off-the-wall trailer for Ari Aster’s (Hereditary, Midsommar) newest movie, Beau is Afraid, hitting US cinemas in April.
• Plus: HBO Max simply bumped up the worth of its ad-free plan whereas canceling exhibits and eradicating content material.
• And a brand new Chromecast with Google TV is within the pipeline, might be a successor to unique mannequin.

In different information this week, Seattle faculties are suing tech giants for harming younger folks’s psychological well being.

• Seattle’s public college district filed a novel lawsuit towards tech giants behind Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Fb, and Snapchat.
• The lawsuit, filed final Friday in US District Courtroom, consisted of a 91-page criticism.
• The college district claims by focusing on their merchandise to youngsters, social media corporations are liable for worsening psychological well being and behavioral issues equivalent to despair, nervousness, and disordered consuming.
• The criticism additionally talked about that youngsters’s use of social media had made educating college students harder, and that faculties had been compelled to coach youngsters in regards to the results of social media, rent further psychological well being professionals, and supply academics with further coaching.

The lawsuit claims that between 2009 to 2019, there was a median 30% enhance within the variety of college students at Seattle Public Colleges reporting feeling “so unhappy or hopeless nearly each day for 2 weeks or extra in a row.”

“Defendants have efficiently exploited the susceptible brains of youth, hooking tens of thousands and thousands of scholars throughout the nation into optimistic suggestions loops of extreme use and abuse of Defendants’ social media platforms. Worse, the content material Defendants curate and direct to youth is simply too usually dangerous and exploitive ….”

The college district’s criticism asks the court docket to order tech giants to cease focusing on youngsters with their merchandise, and in addition asks the court docket to award damages and pay for prevention schooling and remedy for social media habit and problematic use.

• Already lots of of households are pursuing lawsuits towards these corporations over related claims of hurt.
• But it surely’s unclear if every other college districts have filed related complaints to Seattle’s.

This information comes sizzling on the heels of a examine revealed earlier than Christmas that exposed display time was linked to elevated odds of preteens creating OCD:

• In line with the examine led by UC San Francisco (UCSF) researchers, the chances of preteens creating OCD over a two-year interval elevated by 13% for each hour they performed video video games.
• It was additionally proven that the chances elevated by 11% for each hour they watched movies.
• With adolescent display time doubling throughout the pandemic, households ought to concentrate on this threat.
• The examine’s lead creator, Jason Nagata, stated, “Youngsters who spend extreme time enjoying video video games report feeling the necessity to play increasingly more and being unable to cease regardless of making an attempt. Intrusive ideas about online game content material may become obsessions or compulsions.”
• He stated that watching movies may make preteens wish to compulsively view related content material, and that algorithms and commercials can exacerbate that habits.

In fact, it’s not the primary time social media, gaming, and display time, normally, have come underneath hearth for well being issues. It seemingly received’t be the final time, both.

Tech Calendar

• January 18: Samsung launch occasion (Galaxy A54?)
• January 24: Forspoken releases on PS5, PC
• January 26: Razer Edge launched
• January 27: Useless House launches on PS5, Xbox Sequence X/S, and PC
• February 1 @ 1 PM ET: Samsung Unpacked (Galaxy S23?)
• February 7: OnePlus 11 world launch
• February 22: PSVR 2 launch date
• February 27-March 2: MWC 2023 Barcelona

One thing further: Need to see a TikTok of some lovely commuting canines? Canine strolling and coaching enterprise Mo Mountain Mutts in Skagway, Alaska is right here with its “pet bus,” the place seats are assigned primarily based on the canine’s character. Aww 🐶 (h/t Axios).

Paula Beaton, Copy Editor.