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TikTok's deadline to sell off or cede its US operations is once again approaching. The 75-day extension delaying the enforcement of a nationwide TikTok ban is set to run out Saturday, April 5, unless the company finally reaches an agreement to find a new owner. Who might buy it, and what happens if no deal is reached? Here's the shape of things right now:
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President Donald Trump has suggested that “a deal” is imminent and could be reached before that deadline. What such an agreement will loo
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Trump said he would be willing to lower tariffs if countries offer him something "phenomenal," like China with a TikTok deal. Read more ›
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Multiple iPhone users are reporting problems with CarPlay functionality after updating to iOS 18.4, based on complaints on Reddit and elsewhere. The most widespread issue appears to affect vehicles equipped with CarPlay instrument cluster integration. Some users said that after installing iOS 18.4, CarPlay no longer displays the currently playing song information on their car's instrument panel. The instrument cluster bugs have been reported across numerous vehicle models including the... Read more ›
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This new streamer dramatically cuts the cost of reference quality video, but it's 2K-only Read more ›
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The Poco C71 teased a few days ago has been unveiled with its specs, pricing, and availability details. The Poco C71 is a budget smartphone powered by the Unisoc T7250 Max SoC. It comes with up to 6GB RAM and 128GB storage onboard, which is expandable up to 2TB via a microSD card having a dedicated slot in the handset. The C71 boots Android 15 out of the box, and... Read more ›
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The world's top 10 richest people saw $74 billion vanish on paper after Trump's tariffs. Read more ›
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The Trump administration’s tariffs are, by every reasonable account, an economic catastrophe in the making. So why are they happening? One explanation is that this is simply democracy at work. President Donald Trump campaigned on doing more or less exactly what he’s just done, and the voting public elected him. So here we are. That’s […] Read more ›
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Evolytes, a Reykjavík-based elementary math learning platform, has raised a €1.3 million in a Seed funding round to drive further revenue growth and impact in Latin America, India, Middle East, South East Asia, and the U.S. The round was co-led by Omega and Pekron Family Office and follows a €473k pre-Seed in 2021, led by ... Read more ›
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Investors are telling startups to batten down the hatches after Trump's latest tariffs to counteract potential cost hikes and funding freezes. Read more ›
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Lonely Planet was once the Bible of travel. Then Google and social media influencers stepped in and became the new messiahs. Read more ›
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Citadel founder Ken Griffin returned to his Florida high school with his mom in tow to talk to students. Here's what he told them. Read more ›
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Deloitte is bearing the brunt of the government's consulting crackdown — and its workers are next. Read more ›
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A millennial secretly working three remote jobs says he doesn't feel guilty about job juggling. He's on track to earn about $368,000 this year. Read more ›
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JP Morgan's chief global economist warned that Donald Trump's aggressive tariff plan increased the risk of the country falling into a recession. Read more ›
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Jerry Bruckheimer, a producer on the sequel, said in 2022 that Tom Cruise was the "driving force" behind getting Val Kilmer to return for the movie. Read more ›
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The economic headlines are alarming. A CD can provide much-needed peace of mind. Read more ›
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"Last year we helped one of our clients save probably $1.8 million in taxes just by doing a cost seg — and the cost seg only cost them about $10,000." Read more ›
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Vice President JD Vance said Musk will remain a "friend and an adviser" on Fox News. Read more ›
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Gen. Chris Cavoli says Russia is rebuilding its forces swiftly, including by producing 10 times as many tanks as the US each year. Read more ›
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When President Donald Trump began yesterday’s announcement of the White House’s latest trade policy brandishing a novelty-sized cardboard sign labeled “Reciprocal Tariffs,” the immediate and nearly unanimous response was bafflement. Trump slapped a 10 percent baseline tariff on all imports into the US, including from uninhabited islands, plus absurdly high rates on specific countries, supposedly […] Read more ›
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Elon Musk's AI company, xAI, has purchased X, according to a post shared by Musk. Besides their similar names and owner, the companies are already connected through xAI's chatbot Grok, which is integrated into X. X was acquired by xAI through an all-stock transaction. "The combination values xAI at $80 billion and X at $33 billion ($45B less $12B debt)," Musk writes. "xAI and X’s futures are intertwined." The companies... Read more ›
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It seems fitting that Nintendo didn’t reveal the Switch 2’s $450 price during its Direct stream this morning — it would have just bummed everyone out. After spending an hour hearing about how the Switch 2 practically fixes almost every problem we had with the original console, and seeing teasers for exciting games like Mario Kart World, why spoil the good vibes with the harsh reality of market economics? Instead,... Read more ›
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In 2002, Microsoft launched Xbox Live with built-in voice chat as one of the main selling points of the then new service. Now, nearly 25 years later, Nintendo is finally giving its fans an easy way to talk to their friends online over a friendly match of Mario Kart World. Considering some of the solutions Nintendo has offered in the past, GameChat is surprisingly elegant. A tap of the Switch... Read more ›
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Following its big Switch 2 presentation, Nintendo revealed in an interview with the team behind the console that one of the (arguably better) names the company was considering before it landed on Switch 2 was "Super Nintendo Switch." "There were a lot of ideas for the name, and we really struggled to find the right one," Kouichi Kawamato, the producer on the Switch 2, says. "We even considered ideas like... Read more ›
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The Washington Post reports that members of the White House's National Security Council have used personal Gmail accounts to conduct government business. National security advisor Michael Waltz and a senior aide of his both used their own accounts to discuss sensitive information with colleagues, according to the Post's review and interviews with government officials who spoke to the newspaper anonymously. Email is not the best approach for sharing information meant... Read more ›
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The Looney Tunes film Coyote vs. Acme won’t be rotting away in David Zaslav’s basement for the next 50 years. Warner Bros. Discovery has sold the rights to the movie to Ketchup Entertainment, the same company that just released The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie. Ketchup ponied up around $50 million for the film and it’ll hit theaters in 2026, according to reporting by Deadline. Warner... Read more ›
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Mario Kart World is arriving exclusively alongside the Nintendo Switch 2 when it hits store shelves on June 5. The day-and-date release of the latest iteration in the series was confirmed in the company's Switch 2 Nintendo Direct, along with a totally new feature: off-road driving. That's right, Mario Kart World will allow you to "drive virtually everywhere." That means you can grind down railings, jump off walls and even... Read more ›
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You could call Shinichiro Watanabe's Lazarus a retread of his masterpiece, Cowboy Bebop. That’s not to say the show is bad — based on the five episodes I’ve seen so far, Lazarus is still an entertaining and stylish ride. But I’ve just come to expect more from a legendary creator like Watanabe. It’s set in the year 2052, a near-future when a renowned neuroscientist released Hapna, a drug that can... Read more ›
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Nintendo just held a livestream to drop more details on the forthcoming Switch 2 console. At the very end, it revealed a brand-new 3D platformer starring Donkey Kong. This is the first game of its type since Donkey Kong 64 hit the Nintendo 64 all the way back in 1999. It’s called Donkey Kong Bananza and launches exclusively for the Switch 2 on July 17, which is just over a... Read more ›
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Back in 2022, Sony hired Garrett Fredley to join its then newly formed Preservation team, which has been working to find and save documentation of PlayStation's 30-year history since then. Now, Fredley spoke at Game Developers Conference to give an update about his team's efforts. In his Game File newsletter, Stephen Totilo has shared the details about Fredley's talk. Apparently, the team formed what it's calling the PlayStation Studios Vault... Read more ›
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