When 18-year-old Damarion Spann saw a flyer on Instagram calling for a mass gathering on a beach near downtown Chicago, she immediately wanted to go. Thousands of people joined him that night in the arena, playing music and dancing. The cultural trend of so-called teen power grabs has emerged across the United States in recent
Vietnam is weighing the most unusual version yet of the youth social media bans sweeping the world. Instead of kicking children off the platforms entirely, the country wants to allow them to stay connected, but muted. According to a draft decree from Vietnam’s Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, reported on Friday by Reuters, users
Runway no longer wants to be an AI model company anymore. It wants to become the infrastructure layer for generative media. On Thursday, the startup launched Runway Media Router through Runway Dev, its development platform, launched earlier this month, which provides API access to a growing list of third-party image, video and audio models alongside
What do you do after you’ve been to the Moon and back? If you are the astronauts of NASA’s Artemis II mission, you can meet the president of the United States and the Canadian prime minister, and even talk show host Oprah Winfrey. The Artemis II flight in April captured the world’s attention when four
A day after Snap reached a tentative settlement with the plaintiff in a social media addiction lawsuit, leaving Meta as the only remaining defendant, the case was dropped. In a statement, Meta said the plaintiff decided to drop his case against Meta without receiving any payment. TikTok and Google’s YouTube had previously reached settlement agreements
A Florida teenager who sued Meta alleging he was addicted and harmed by using platforms like Instagram has dropped his case. The 15-year-old plaintiff, known by the initials RKC, had in recent weeks settled the same lawsuits against TikTok, Snapchat and YouTube, all of which have been accused in a large lawsuit of creating addictive