In the span of just 48 hours this week, two separate juries in two different US states delivered verdicts that could reshape the entire social media industry — not because of the dollar amounts involved, but because of what those verdicts legally establish for the first time. On Tuesday, March 24, a jury in Santa Fe, New Mexico ordered Meta to pay $375 million for failing to protect children from sexual exploitation on Facebook and Instagram. Less than 24 hours later, on Wednesday, March 25, a jury in Los Angeles found both Meta and Google (YouTube) liable for engineering addiction in young users — finding them negligent in the design of their platforms and awarding a further $6 million in damages. Two days. Two states. Two juries. Both pointing at the same conclusion: that Big Tech can no longer hide behind the legal shields it has relied on for nearly three decades. This is the story of what happened, why it matters far beyond the headline numbers, and what comes next for the s...
Bar Codes have been around for decades and is increasingly finding more and more uses with mobile. Wikipedia have introduced a new feature called QRpedia what this does essentially is allows you to fill in any Wikipedia article URL, into a box generate a QR Code and then share it with people on the mobile phones. Users can then use their mobile phones to pick up the code and read it in their phones selected language.
An amazing use for this is in a museum. QRPedia QR Codes can be placed beside items and users can use their phones get the code and read about the items it in their own language when available. The system is now in use in many museums around the world. So if your company or your name has a Wikipedia articles you can get the QR code and place it on your site users from across the internet and the world can then read it in their phone's default language. Try it out now www.qrpedia.org
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