A Canadian man is launching a class-action lawsuit against social media companies TikTok, YouTube, Reddit, Instagram, and Facebook for being “too addictive.” Social media apps are facing lawsuits in 2024, and a 24-year-old Montreal man […]
POPSUGAR Photography | Lena FeltonPOPSUGAR Photography | Lena Felton Every editorial product is independently selected by our editors. If you buy something through our links, we may earn commission. When I was in high school, […]
Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt will play a stuntman and director who get caught up in a real-life thriller in the upcoming action-comedy The Fall Guy. It’s a story that blurs fiction and fact, with […]
Meta Horizon World BlackPink Virtual Reality Concert Back when I was in college, a friend of mine invited me to attend the Kaleidoscope VR Film Festival in Los Angeles. It was 2015 and my first […]
Credit: Arturo Homes/Getty Images for Meta Miami Art Week recently witnessed a revolutionary blend of technology and music as Austin Millz, recognized not only as a prolific artist/producer, but also a true pioneer in his […]
California and 32 other states on Tuesday sued Facebook parent company Meta over allegations that it “designed and deployed harmful features” on the main social network and its platform Instagram despite knowing about the mental […]
Sarah Silverman and two bestselling novelists have sued Meta and OpenAI, the tech startup behind ChatGPT, accusing the companies of using the authors’ copyrighted books without their consent to “train” their artificial intelligence software programs. […]
Photo Credit: Technivation Meta has released its own AI music generator called ‘MusicGen,’ trained on 10,000 licensed music tracks. The AI music generator works much like Google’s MusicLM, generating a snippet of about 12 seconds […]
Wes Anderson is a vibe. People always know what they’re going to get with a Wes Anderson movie, and a lot of people like to slag him off because of that. But what’s wrong with […]
In the next obvious move, Mattel has released a collection of Barbie dolls and accessories from the upcoming Barbie movie starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling. Now all we need is a movie about the […]
Californians may no longer be able to read daily news from their Facebook and Instagram feeds if the state Legislature passes a bill forcing tech platforms to pay publishers. That’s the threat that parent company […]
Meta has announced high-tech VR headset Meta Quest 3, and it will launch in fall 2023. It’s the latest in the company’s line of virtual reality devices, but it will also be its most technologically […]
Photo Credit: Nokia621 / CC by 4.0 Meta conducts its latest round of layoffs as part of its ‘Year of Efficiency,’ cutting approximately 6,000 jobs, including Instagram’s Head of Music Partnerships. As part of Facebook […]
Following a lengthy investigation, Ireland’s Data Protection Commission has announced a $1.3 billion Meta EU fine over allegedly unlawful data transfers. Photo Credit: Dima Solomin Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) has officially slapped Facebook and […]
Photo Credit: Muhammad Asyfaul The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is proposing a blanket ban on Meta’s ability to monetize underage data. The move comes after repeated violations of a 2020 privacy order. These changes proposed […]
Photo Credit: Artapixel The Italian regulatory agency ruled against Meta in the SIAE music rights case, ordering the company to resume talks with SIAE and put SIAE-protected music content back on Facebook and Instagram. Italy’s […]
A nighttime shot of the Ponte Vittorio Emanuele II bridge in Rome, Italy. Photo Credit: Christian Nordmark Less than one month after Meta pulled a number of Italian creators’ music amid a licensing dispute with […]
Venice, Italy. Photo Credit: canmandawe Facebook parent Meta has pulled the works of Italian creators over a rights-related dispute, according to the Italian Society of Authors and Publishers (SIAE), which says that its members are […]
International Confederation of Music Publishers director general John Phelan. Photo Credit: ICMP Yesterday, the Italian Society of Authors and Publishers (SIAE) revealed that its members’ works were being pulled from Meta platforms amid a licensing […]
Photo Credit: Roman Martyniuk Meta has announced an additional round of 10,000 layoffs and a pivot away from NFTs. CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote the move is one to streamline the company in terms of efficiency. […]