By Andrew Chung (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday sidestepped a challenge to federal protections for internet and social media companies that free them of liability for content posted by users in a case involving a lawsuit against Google LLC involving the practices of video-sharing platform YouTube. The justices, in a brief and…
(Reuters) – Apple Inc has lowered sales estimates for its long-awaited mixed-reality headsets by about two-thirds, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter. The iPhone-maker had initially hoped to sell about 3 million units a year, but has now pared back those estimates to about 1 million, and then to 900,000…
By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) – To supporters, Prince Harry and his wife Meghan being chased through the streets of New York by press photographers brought back memories of the death of his mother Princess Diana and epitomised the media harassment and intrusion they endure. For detractors, it was another show of the couple’s over-the-top,…
By Danielle Broadway LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – As the Writers Guild of America strikes to bring about better pay and work security in a streaming TV world, a generation of diverse writers like Caroline Renard fear for the future of their careers. While there have been improvements in diversity within writers’ rooms in recent years,…
(Adds dropped word “not” in paragraph 7) (Reuters) – A Florida judge ruled in favor of Tiger Woods on Wednesday, rejecting his former girlfriend Erica Herman’s request to nullify a non-disclosure agreement she signed when they began dating in 2017, U.S. media reported, citing court documents. Herman had asked a judge to void the agreement,…
By Michael Holden and Jonathan Allen LONDON/ NEW YORK (Reuters) -Britain’s Prince Harry, his wife Meghan and her mother were involved in a “near catastrophic” car chase with press photographers after attending an awards ceremony in New York, Harry’s spokesperson said on Wednesday. The incident involved “a ring of highly aggressive paparazzi” in half a…
By Chris Taylor NEW YORK (Reuters) – When Hayley Woodin was thinking of giving back to the community while taking her career to the next level, one option stood out: serving on a board of directors. Woodin, the editor-in-chief of Canada’s “Business In Vancouver” newspaper, jumped at the opportunity when one of the region’s largest…
By David Alire Garcia MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexicans applying for a passport can now avoid having to check the box for male or female in a new travel document policy announced on Wednesday and hailed by the country’s top diplomat as historic progress for those who identify as non-binary. The new non-binary passport was…
By Casey Hall SHANGHAI (Reuters) – When graduate student Cai Zhishan decided to spend her Labour Day holidays in northern China, she wished she had enough money to hire a car for the more-than 4,000km (2,500 mile) round trip – the equivalent of driving from New York to Los Angeles. Instead, she chose “travelling like…
CANNES (Reuters) – Johnny Depp pushed back at suggestions he was making a comeback with the Cannes Film Festival’s opening movie “Jeanne du Barry” following a high-profile defamation trial a year ago, though he admitted people had “stopped calling” at the time. “I keep wondering about the word comeback, because I didn’t go anywhere,” Depp…
