A Baltimore jury ordered Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiaries to pay over $1.5 billion to a woman who claimed decades of exposure to asbestos in the company’s talc-based products caused her peritoneal mesothelioma, a form of cancer. Jurors in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City, Md., on Monday found the company, two of its subsidiaries and spinoff Kenvue liable … Read more
Fox Entertainment and Hulu announced Thursday a multi-year content deal whereby the Walt Disney-controlled streaming platform will retain the streaming rights for Fox’s extensive programming slate. The agreement includes an expansion of their platform marketing arrangement, reportedly valued at over $1.5 billion across four years, according to Deadline. The new deal builds upon both firms’ partnership spanning more than two years, … Read more
Life on Earth looks good for its age. Newly discovered fossil records hint that mold-like unicellular organisms — the common ancestor to all complex life on our planet — arrived over a billion years earlier than previous estimates. Evidence was found deep in rock structures within Africa’s fossil-abundant nation of Gabon that suggest conditions for … Read more