Meta Platforms agreed Wednesday to pay up to $17.1 billion to settle a landmark lawsuit brought by 29 states alleging the company deliberately engineered Facebook and Instagram to be addictive to children, marking the largest single settlement in the company’s history and the biggest tech-industry payout ever recorded in a single case. Meta’s press release
Apple sent out invitations on Wednesday morning for its annual fall iPhone launch event, and this one could be headlined by the highly anticipated iPhone Fold, as well as the iPhone 18 lineup, a fresh new Apple Watch and updated AirPods. The event takes place on Wednesday, Sept. 9 at 10 a.m. PT (1 p.m.
The Trump administration has threatened to demolish the Kennedy Center if planned renovations for the performing arts venue are not allowed to be carried out, court documents show. Attorneys from the justice department have also asked for President Donald Trump’s name to be put back on the building after it was removed in June following
Tim Curry, who soared to fame in the ‘70s as the flamboyant star of the campy horror movie stage spoof “The Rocky Horror Show” and its screen version “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” died on Tuesday in Los Angeles, Variety has confirmed. He was 80. A cause of death was not immediately available, though Curry
Nvidia will officially cap off tech earnings season today after the closing bell. It’s been a tumultuous several weeks for the AI trade and mega-cap tech more broadly, with investors reacting sharply to results on both ends of the spectrum. On one side you had Alphabet and Tesla, which drew investor ire after ramping up
Microsoft is officially announcing a new Xbox feature that will allow Xbox owners to digitize their existing physical game collections. The disc-to-digital feature, which The Verge exclusively revealed last month, is part of work that Microsoft is doing for game preservation and in preparation for the next generation of Xbox consoles. “Most Xbox One and
