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...
bing: Connecting people, places and things. This is the Title of the new Bing blog with the latest announcements . Microsoft has announced that it has further tweaked its search engine Bing. The new features include maps that are located at street level as in Google Maps. You can also move about in different directions to get a better view of the locality. To Access the Bing Maps Beta click here . There will also be a Twitter feed available for you to find out the latest happenings on the are your searching. Bing could gain market share once they complete their search and advertising deal with Yahoo. Which will power back-end searches on Yahoo pages. Found on pcmag a cool new visual tour . Go there if you would like to see early visual of the new features. They would however need to tweak the photo and Twitter integration to make it more meaningful. Bing continues to take the fight to Google. One particularly clever app is Photosynth , a photo-management tool from Microsoft that stitc...