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Meta has agreed to settle the social media addiction trial brought forward by California and other states for nearly $18 billion. NBC News' Allie Canal and Misty Marris have details on the settlement and what it means for the social media giant.
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Meta has agreed to pay $17 billion and add child-safety measures to its Facebook and Instagram platforms to end a landmark trial over teen social media addiction and settle claims filed by 47 states...
Meta will pay up to $18 billion over 10 years — and implement broad child-safety reforms on Instagram and Facebook — under a nationwide settlement with 52 state attorneys general, including California’s Rob Bonta. The agreement, subject to court approval, resolves claims by the state AGs that Meta designed Instagram with addictive features, knowingly exposed […]...
GeekSpin - 16 hours 48 min agoHave you ever reached into your pocket while trying to pay for groceries, pulled out your phone or smartwatch, ready to tap and be on your merry way, only to be struck by the painful realization that this is Walmart? For years, stepping into a Walmart or Sam's Club felt like stepping into a strange […] Read the original article here: Walmart is finally fixing its biggest checkout complaint...
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Air and Space - 17 hours 49 min agoWhile other activists aimed to take down Jim Crow in one fell swoop, the future Supreme Court justice compiled a series of wins that ultimately added up to an undeniable resolution...
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Air and Space - 18 hours 49 min agoThe rookie card of the future Yankees legend once sold for pennies. But, even with garish colorization, it became a treasured symbol of the golden age of the sport that is now valued in the millions...
Amazon's online marketplace for tiny digital tasks is being sunsetted. The company says its Mechanical Turk service, launched in 2005 to connect businesses with people willing to do quick jobs for pennies , will shut down on Sept. 30. The company simply says the decision was made following one of its...
Vox - 18 hours 49 min agoRichie Bell stood at the door of an East Village bar, nervous for a singular reason: he had to hand over his phone to a bouncer to get in. At 23 years old, Bell had hardly ever been without a device he got his first iPhone in elementary school but when he saw a video on TikTok advertising a queer, phone-free, funk dance party called Who's Dancing? , he decided to test his limits. He immediately purchased a ticket and planned to attend alone. Bell was pleasantly surprised to discover he wouldn't...
Ukraine is dangling its highest civilian honor as it pushes Elon Musk for more digital reach into Russia. President Volodymyr Zelensky has awarded Musk the Order of Liberty, reports the Ukraine Independent , for "contributions to the protection of human life and freedom, and the development of relations between the peoples...
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The government agency that's encouraging high-risk and high-reward research.
At the height of the Cold War, one very specialized computer was so secret that the world didn't know it existed. It ran its jobs up to 200 times as fast as any other computer of its time. It was the U.S. National Security Agency's main cryptographic processor in operation from the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 through the Vietnam War and on past the 1975 Helsinki Accords . The machine stopped running only when its moving parts finally gave out. The Harvest computer mattered because...
GeekSpin - 1 day 17 hours agoYour Xfinity router just got a new job: watching for movement inside your home. Comcast has launched WiFi Motion, an opt-in feature that turns an Xfinity Gateway and connected Wi-Fi devices into motion sensors. The idea is to give people a camera-free way to know when something or someone is moving around the house. Also, […] Read the original article here: Xfinity routers can now track motion and share data with police...
Vox - 1 day 17 hours agoA protest against data centers in central Texas. | Sara Diggins/The Austin American-Statesman Welcome to The Midterms, Actually. Every week I'll be writing about two things: one big idea or trend I see forming across the 2026 primaries, and one thing I'm hearing from a voice on the ground. You can sign up here to get it in your inbox every week. Let's get into it. One big idea: The data center backlash is a democracy story This week, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman acknowledged a small hurdle...
This article is brought to you by Ollobot . From about 2017, individuals began to truly connect with the initial wave of companion robots. These devices had personality, moved around, joked, and answered when you spoke to them. Most early companion robots, however, were still limited by simple voice-command interactions and narrow functionality. Once the novelty wore off, many ended up sitting unused on shelves. As some of those companies went out of business and turned off their servers, many owners...
Ahead of its November release, scenes from the highly anticipated video game 'Grand Theft Auto VI' have been circulating online.
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