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Amazon has reportedly joined the growing list of suitors angling to acquire TikTok as a new ban deadline approaches. According to The New York Times, the retailer has made a “last-minute bid” to buy the app, and has approached Vice President JD Vance and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick about the offer.
It’s not clear why Amazon is making an offer this late in the process. TikTok is currently facing an April 5 deadline to strike a deal, though President Donald Trump has said he would likely extend it if ne
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The monopoly superpowers have had on building the most advanced fighter jets looks to be ending with South Korea's KF-21 Boramae and Turkey's Kaan. Read more ›
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Judge Beryl Howell blocked President Donald Trump's executive order against Perkins Coie, calling the effort to target its lawyers "cringe-worthy." Read more ›
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Bill Gates has said he's shy, but his daughter Phoebe Gates is the opposite, and says as a kid she made him socialize. Read more ›
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Trump's tariffs are fueling a rise in weird new gadgets that can do more than one thing. They're especially popular among Gen Z. Read more ›
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A 25-year-old from Santa Clarita has pleaded guilty to hacking a Disney employee's computer using malware disguised as an AI art tool, stealing over 1 terabyte of confidential Disney data and threatening to leak it under the guise of a fake Russian hacktivist group. Variety reports: Santa Clarita resident Ryan Mitchell Kramer, 25, pleaded guilty to two felony charges, including one count of accessing a computer and obtaining information and... Read more ›
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The U.S. just signed a major deal with Ukraine, giving American companies access to critical natural resources like graphite, aluminum, and gas. Read more ›
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Donald Trump might want to take back blaming Joe Biden for the stock market. Wall Street is doing quite well again. Read more ›
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Cornell Tech's new MakerLAB opened to incubate startups and support students, even as threats to cut research funding left many feeling uncertain. Read more ›
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The hugely popular Samsung Galaxy A series got its annual overhaul recently. The headlining A56 didn't bring a whole lot of improvements over the previous generation, the most obvious being a chipset upgrade. Other than the A55 and the A36, the A56 needs to face another in-house competitor - the S24 FE could turn out to be the better option for someone that's looking to spend A56 money. Let's do... Read more ›
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Nearly a dozen Social Security employees told BI what it's like to work at the agency with Trump's staff cuts and rising demand from baby boomers. Read more ›
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Airbnb's CFO said in a first-quarter earnings call that Canadians were traveling more domestically and visiting Mexico, Brazil, France, and Japan. Read more ›
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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have had a tumultuous relationship with the royal family, particularly after their 2021 interview with Oprah Winfrey. Read more ›
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Plus: Philips Norelco has an AI-powered shaver, and Wiz's Sync Box is an affordable synced lighting alternative for your TV. Read more ›
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China's been building artificial islands in the South China Sea over the last decade to expand its control in the area. Satellite images show its growth. Read more ›
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Chronic high blood sugar is linked to metabolic diseases such as type 2 diabetes. Read more ›
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For the first time in 20 years, the sandwich giant has dipped below 20,000 domestic locations, despite continuing to grow internationally. Read more ›
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Tools for Humanity, a startup co-founded by Sam Altman, has launched its its World eyeball-scanning identity verification system in the US. During an event in San Francisco, Altman reportedly said that World's technology provides "a way to make sure humans remained central and special in a world where the internet had a lot of AI-driven content." Altman is also one of the founders and is currently the CEO of OpenAI,... Read more ›
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There are plenty of good reasons to delete your X account, whether it's because of a general desire to not do anything to help Elon Musk, a distaste for the curdled culture of the platform or the allure of greener social pastures like Bluesky or Threads. Whatever your reason, the process of deleting your account is simple, and by design, pretty hands-off. In order to get rid of your X... Read more ›
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Microsoft is dramatically increasing the price of the Xbox Series X and Series S, as well as new games and peripherals. As of today, the Series S will start at $380, up from $300, while the Series X will begin at $550, a $100 increase from its previous price. Additionally, Microsoft says beginning this holiday season "some" new first-party games will release at $80. "We understand that these changes are... Read more ›
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A group of researchers covertly ran a months-long "unauthorized" experiment in one of Reddit’s most popular communities using AI-generated comments to test the persuasiveness of large language models. The experiment, which was revealed over the weekend by moderators of r/changemyview, is described by Reddit mods as “psychological manipulation” of unsuspecting users. “The CMV Mod Team needs to inform the CMV community about an unauthorized experiment conducted by researchers from the... Read more ›
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The BBC announced a new addition to its Maestro series of masterclasses, featuring its first posthumous teacher, Agatha Christie, presenting her writing tips in 4K video. The best-selling author of literature in human history teaches an 11-lesson course on writing mysteries, and the BBC seems very aware of the issues circling AI, which provokes a mix of intrigue and, honestly, wariness. Christie, who died in 1976, has had her likeness... Read more ›
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Nothing sub-brand CMF just announced several new products, including a refresh of its flagship smartphone. The Phone Pro 2 looks to be an improvement over its predecessor in every major way. The company says it's the lightest and slimmest smartphone it has ever designed. It’s 7.8mm thin and weighs 6.5 ounces. That may make it the lightest phone Nothing has ever made, but the iPhone 16, for instance, is just... Read more ›
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The gaming industry continues to bleed workers and cancel games, with EA back for another round of brutal news. The company said on Tuesday it decided to "make some targeted team adjustments," which Bloomberg reported as between 300 and 400 eliminated positions, including 100 at Respawn, and the cancellation of an unannounced Titanfall game. Again. The canned Titanfall game, code-named R7, was reportedly an extraction shooter set in the mech-meets-parkour... Read more ›
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A group of researchers covertly ran a months-long "unauthorized" experiment in one of Reddit’s most popular communities using AI-generated comments to test the persuasiveness of large language models. The experiment, which was revealed over the weekend by moderators of r/changemyview, is described by Reddit mods as “psychological manipulation” of unsuspecting users. “The CMV Mod Team needs to inform the CMV community about an unauthorized experiment conducted by researchers from the... Read more ›
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It’s safe to say people are loving Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 so far. The turn-based RPG — which is the debut game from French developer Sandfall — has been racking up rave reviews in the days around its release, and already soared past some big sales milestones. On Sunday morning, publisher Kepler Interactive shared on social media that the game has sold a million copies since its release on April... Read more ›
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Google has announced that it's helping to financially support the electrical training ALLIANCe (etA), an organization formed by the National Electrical Contractors Association and the International Brotherhood of Electricians. The goal is to train "100,000 electrical workers and 30,000 new apprentices in the United States" to meet the growing power demands of AI. Using AI will unlock unspecified, but positive economic opportunities, Google's new white paper, "Powering a New Era... Read more ›
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