Meta's Zuckerberg denies at LA trial that Instagram targets kidsThe case involves a California woman who started using Instagram and YouTube as a child. She alleges the companies sought to profit by ho...
19 Feb, 2026, 07.41 AM IST
YouTube argues it isn't social media in landmark tech addiction trialYouTube, its lawyers said, is an entertainment platform more like Netflix than a social network like Facebook. People use the video streami...
12 Feb, 2026, 07.07 AM IST
Instagram chief says social media is not 'clinically addictive' in landmark trialInstagram's chief executive said Wednesday that social media was not "clinically addictive," refuting claims that the platform prioritised ...
12 Feb, 2026, 06.59 AM IST
YouTube argues it isn't social media in landmark tech addiction trialYouTube, its lawyers said, is an entertainment platform more like Netflix than a social network like Facebook. People use the video streami...
11 Feb, 2026, 01.54 PM IST
Instagram boss to testify at social media addiction trialInstagram chief Adam Mosseri is to be called to testify Wednesday in a Los Angeles courtroom by lawyers out to prove social media is danger...
11 Feb, 2026, 08.14 AM IST
Meta, YouTube design apps to addict kids, jury hears as landmark trial beginsA 20-year-old woman identified as Kaley G.M. in court is suing Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta Platforms and Alphabet's Google, ...
10 Feb, 2026, 04.16 PM IST
Who was Diane Ladd? Veteran hollywood actress, three-time Oscar nominee, and mother of Laura Dern, dead at 89Veteran actress Diane Ladd, celebrated for her roles in "Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore" and "Chinatown," has passed away at 89. Her daugh...
04 Nov, 2025, 03.06 AM IST
July 4 Independence Day holiday becomes one of the deadliest days of 2025 in USJuly 4 Independence Day holiday has witnessed a number of violence, shootings, and fireworks related death.
06 Jul, 2025, 01.02 AM IST
Queen Elizabeth II, Lata Mangeshkar, Bob Saget & Betty Davis: Remembering influential people who we lost in 2022Here is a roll call of some influential figures who died in 2022.
27 Dec, 2022, 09.57 AM IST
How anonymous is bitcoin, really?Bitcoin represents a techno-utopian dream. Satoshi Nakamoto, its pseudonymous inventor, proposed that the world run not on centralized fina...
07 Jun, 2022, 11.18 AM IST
Google, Facebook had illegal deal to rig ad market, Texas saysThe complaint, which targets Google's central role in the buying and selling of display ads across the web, was filed in federal court in T...
17 Dec, 2020, 12.51 PM IST
Raja Ravi Varma's painting fetches Rs 11.9 cr at Sotheby's New York auctionThe auction, featuring works of art across 1,700 years, closed at Rs 73.9 crore.
17 Mar, 2017, 04.27 PM IST
J&J judge slashes $1bn verdict over Pinnacle hip implantsThe cut wipes out about $500 million in punishment damages against J&J and DePuy over the company’s mishandling of the hip implants, said M...
05 Jan, 2017, 01.00 AM IST
- BP report blames itself, others for oil spill
BP took some of the blame for the Gulf oil disaster in an internal report issued on Wednesday, acknowledging among other things that it mis...
09 Sep, 2010, 11.15 AM IST
- Moving faster, Toyota recalls SUVs, agrees to fine
Toyota has agreed to a record $16.4 million fine for its slow response to sticking gas pedals - the equivalent of a little more than $2 for...
20 Apr, 2010, 01.00 PM IST
- US says Toyota hid pedal defect, proposes $16.4-million fine
Toyota Motor 'knowingly hid a dangerous defect' that caused its vehicles to accelerate unexpectedly, the US said, for the first time accusi...
07 Apr, 2010, 02.13 AM IST
- US court to rule on multi-billion-dollar Toyota accelerator lawsuits
A group of law firms from 20 US states, dubbed the Toyota Action Consortium, is suing to recoup losses in the resale value of Toyota vehicl...
25 Mar, 2010, 05.56 PM IST