A keenly observed class drama shown through the eyes of a child, Shalini Adnani’s “Our Share of Sand” overcomes its characters’ narrow construction through its brooding intensity. Set against a sand-mining crisis in modern India, it tells of a 12-year-old British Asian girl, Maya (Maya Mehta), who returns to the country to join her industrialist
For young investors, the line between investing and gambling has never been easier to blur. You can place a bet or make a trade on the same device, and almost instantaneously know exactly where you stand. A recent survey from financial services firm Betterment inspired a flurry of headlines about how 26% of Gen Z
Kalshi users as young as 18 are now responsible for billions of dollars worth of trading activity on sports that critics say amounts to a loophole in gambling laws. A recent analysis by CNN showed so far this year users between the ages of 18 and 21 traded an estimated $5.4 billion on Kalshi, the
For Elizabeth Cardner, a mother of two girls in Houston, Texas, Meta’s new limits on how teenagers can use its platforms are a welcome sign that more people are aware of social media’s potential dangers. But, she tells the BBC, they probably won’t help much in the long-term. “It will save a few arguments at
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The trial on 18 August stems from a lawsuit filed in 2023 by 29 US states, including California and New York, in which they claim Meta violated federal and state privacy laws for children and deliberately designed its platforms to be addictive to young people. The BBC’s North America technology correspondent Lily Jamali explains how
