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...
This is a cool new feature from Gmail. Let's say you open a mail that contains attachments, you simply need to hover over the attachment and drag and drop the same to your desktop to save it. How to drag and drop Gmail attachments. Let’s say you have an email open containing an attachment. Hover your mouse over the attachment’s “Download” link or its file icon and a tooltip appears that says: “Click to view OR drag to your desktop to save." Simply click and hold, then drag your cursor to anywhere in your file system that you want to save the file. Release the mouse button, and voilà ! Your attachment is saved (for large files, you may see a progress dialog). [Via Official Gmail Blog ] An original post by Sociolatte