This week, juries in California and New Mexico dealt a pair of landmark verdicts against America’s social media giants.  In Los Angeles, jurors awarded $6 million to a young woman who alleged that Instagram and YouTube had damaged her mental health. A day earlier, a jury in Santa Fe ruled that Meta had designed its […]

Opinion: A rollover crash adds to a troubling pattern and raises a bigger question about risk, control, and why some Black stars still insist on driving themselves

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We don't review many solar panels at The Verge, but the tech inside Bluetti's incredibly portable Sora 500 panel makes it worth a deeper look. The new N-Type panels made by Bluetti and others give you more bang for the buck, pound, and square inch. That's a big deal for vanlifers like me who depend […]

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Prediction market bets decided on linguistic technicalities expose how hard it is to turn language into a binary market, with payouts hinging on a single word  —  Bets decided on linguistic technicalities are exposing how hard it is to turn language into a binary market with payouts hinging on a single word.

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Meta's longtime content policy chief Monika Bickert is leaving the company to teach at Harvard; she will stay at Meta until August to work on a transition plan  —  Meta's long-time content policy chief Monika Bickert, who oversaw the writing and enforcement of Facebook's content policies …