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Android Authority released its weekly Wallpaper Wednesday collection, featuring nine free wallpapers—six submitted by readers and three created by the site's team. The images are available in JPG and PNG formats, optimized for both landscape and portrait screens, and can be downloaded without watermarks via a shared Drive link.
Nintendo will raise the price of its base 256GB Switch 2 console from $449.99 to $499.99 beginning next Tuesday, September 1st. The company had previously announced the increase, and it also recently unveiled two game bundles priced above $500 that include a slight discount.
SoundCloud is launching a feature that lets musicians sell tracks straight from their profile pages, starting with a beta test involving 200 US-based Artist Pro subscribers before wider rollout this fall. The company won't take a percentage of sales, though artists still cover payment processing fees and taxes, and can track earnings through existing Artist Studio and Fan Support tools.
New CAD renders from OnLeaks and Android Headlines reveal the standard Galaxy S27 in a light purple finish, closely resembling one of the Galaxy Z Fold 8's colors. Unlike the redesigned Galaxy S27 Ultra leaked a day earlier, the base model appears to retain nearly identical dimensions and a 6.3-inch display similar to the Galaxy S26, with only a slight increase in thickness.
The American Psychiatric Association has announced it will revise the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, aiming to incorporate biological measures into future diagnostic criteria for the first time. A strategic subcommittee, which included the author, has been working since 2024 to determine how neurobiology and biomarkers—such as blood tests and imaging scans—could supplement or refine existing symptom-based diagnoses. The current DSM-5, published in 2013, has faced criticism for relying solely on behavioral symptoms without objective biological measures.
Meta reached a settlement with a coalition of state attorneys general, led by California, resolving claims that it downplayed mental health risks to children on Facebook and Instagram. Under the proposed consent judgment, Meta will pay $16.7 billion total, with California potentially receiving up to $2.1 billion, and must implement daily usage limits, nighttime blocks for teens, stronger age verification, and new parental control tools. Texas did not join the settlement, and both sides waived rights to appeal once the court approves it.
Meta has settled litigation brought by attorneys general across 52 US states, territories and Washington DC over allegations that Facebook and Instagram harmed young users' mental health. The company will pay up to roughly $16.68bn in annual installments over a decade, funding youth online safety programs, while denying any wrongdoing. As part of the deal, Meta must add teen safety features like night-time blocks, school-hours access limits, stronger parental controls and age verification.
Researchers from the Universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow followed over 129,000 people in Scotland for five years, examining the effects of the Woods In and Around Towns program, which has restored roughly 30,000 acres of urban forest since 2005. They found that people who moved within a 10-minute walk of one of these woodlands saw a 10 percent drop in antidepressant prescriptions and a 6 percent drop in anti-anxiety medication use.
New tracking data shows gas-fired power capacity under development in the United States has surged past China's, reaching roughly three times the amount, driven largely by data center demand. The volume of U.S. gas power projects tied to data centers nearly doubled in just the first half of 2026.
Arizona publicist Tracy Green earned over $500 in two weeks by sharing shopping links from ShopMy, an affiliate marketing platform, with her roughly 1,900 Instagram followers after a trip where friends swapped product recommendations. Another user, New York publicist Stephanie Dresher, began doing the same after realizing friends already asked her for outfit advice, turning casual recommendations into paid links earning 10% to 30% commissions.
Meta has reached an $18 billion settlement with attorneys general from 48 states resolving claims that its platforms harmed young users' mental health. The agreement includes new protections for minors, but the full payout is contingent on rivals TikTok and YouTube adopting comparable safety measures.
Meta has agreed to pay up to $18 billion to resolve a lawsuit brought by 29 U.S. states accusing it of deliberately designing Instagram and Facebook to be addictive to children while aware of the potential harms. The states also alleged Meta improperly collected data from minors without parental consent, violating federal children's privacy law. Meta is not admitting wrongdoing but avoids a jury trial by settling.