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TikTok has reached a settlement to avoid being part of a high-profile social media addiction trial in California, just hours ...

A historic lawsuit accusing several prominent social media companies of intentionally designing their platforms to addict ...

Snap settled before jury selection in a landmark social media addiction case, while Meta, ByteDance, and YouTube still face ...

In 2025, we saw an endless series of hires and promotions throughout luxury’s major houses. Find out who’s who in our ...

Peer into The Economist’s decision-making processes with Robert Guest, our deputy editor, who explains how we select and ...

High Pointe qualifies as golf’s feel-good story of the year. This was the first course Tom Doak built beginning in 1987 as a ...

Gutierrez said Bair started asking him about his interest in photography, and after being nudged by his mother, he asked her about internship or apprentice-type opportunities. Bair suggested he ...

A federal court on Wednesday refused a GOP effort to invalidate California’s new congressional map that adds up to five Democratic-leaning seats.  In a 2-1 vote, the three-judge panel rejected ...

The design of the steel-ribbed umbrella has changed little since it was introduced in the 1850s, but the mechanical engineers and origami experts who made an umbrella that works by folding say they’ve ...

BMW engineers are burning the midnight oil to prepare a wave of 40 new or refreshed “Neue Klasse” models by the close of 2027. Among them is the next-generation X7, recently caught in fresh spy shots ...