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
President Donald Trump, speaking alongside cryptocurrency leaders at the White House this week, made a statement that Republican and Democratic candidates alike wouldn’t touch with a 10-foot pole. “If I were the mayor of a town or the governor of a state, and I had a chance to get a big plant in, an AI
Law Roach is careful not to let client relationships get too personal. Speaking on SiriusXM on Saturday, the celebrity stylist said he tries to keep clear boundaries with the people he works for. “I always had a rule not to become friends with clients,” Roach said. He described his relationship with Zendaya as the exception,
Tributes have been paid to Jason Arday, the former Cambridge professor, after he was found dead at an address in Battersea, south London, on Friday afternoon. In a statement issued by his publisher Simon & Schuster UK, Prof Arday’s family said they were “in shock to have lost this amazing father, partner, brother, uncle and
The accounts have managed to manipulate the algorithms on major social media sites by sharing emotive and hopeful content to gain more traction. Insiders at the biggest social media companies have previously told me how posts triggering a strong reaction are more likely to go viral. When I tried to contact some of these profiles
I’m going to admit something here that’s probably going to get a lot of parents up in arms: I paid a guy $300 to teach my two kids to ride a bike. I know that $150 for a bike lesson is exorbitant, and it was one of the reasons I hesitated to do it (or