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At the moment, TikTok is fighting for survival.
The Chinese-owned app has been locked in a monthslong legal battle over a law that will ban it in the U.S. on Jan. 19 if it hasn’t cut ties with its parent company, ByteDance. The entire drama is headed for a final showdown next week, with the company planning to argue for its existence in front of the U.S. Supreme Court.
But President-elect Donald Trump on Friday asked the court to pause the ban going into effect. Importantly, Trump didn’t offer a definitiv
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With the "natural" look on trend and antiaging treatments more sophisticated than ever, Rachel Hosie grappled with putting her principles aside and getting Botox before her wedding. Read more ›
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Justice Juan Merchan on Friday denied Trump's bid for an 'interest-of-justice' dismissal, setting sentencing for 10 days before inauguration. Read more ›
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Apple CEO Tim Cook plans to donate $1 million to Donald Trump's inauguration fund, reports Axios. The donation will be a personal donation directly from Cook rather than a donation from Apple. Following Trump's win, Cook congratulated him on social media site X, and in December, Cook had dinner with Trump at Mar-a-Lago. Cook aimed to maintain a relationship with Trump during Trump's first term as president, and it appears... Read more ›
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Cornell Tech researchers have developed a portable device called SoilScanner that uses radio frequency signals and machine learning to detect lead contamination in soil. It offers a cost-effective alternative to traditional methods of testing that "generally involves either sending samples to a lab for analysis, which relies upon harsh chemicals and can be expensive, or using a portable X-ray fluorescence device," notes Phys.org. From the report: "In recent years, especially... Read more ›
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Ahead of CES 2025, Nvidia is giving away five classic GPUs signed by CEO Jensen Huang. Read more ›
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Hollow-eyed insincere robot posters are already flooding Meta's sites and they're everything we dreaded. Read more ›
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Zendaya, a Golden Globe nominee for her role in "Challengers," got her break on Disney Channel. She says she wouldn't change her career. Read more ›
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A federal judge may order Rudy Giuliani held in contempt next week in the defamation of two Georgia election workers. Here's why Trump can't help him. Read more ›
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Apple TV+ will be available to stream for free starting on Friday, January 3, with the promotion set to last through Sunday, January 5. For the first time, Apple is providing unlimited access to its catalog of TV shows and movies with no subscription fee. The Apple TV+ streaming service can be accessed from any web browser and on any device that has an Apple TV app. The Apple TV... Read more ›
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Microsoft holds earnings calls each quarter, hosted by CEO Satya Nadella, where the company discusses revenues, profits, projections, and more. Read more ›
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A fire destroyed as much as two-thirds of the world's largest secondhand clothing market in Accra, Ghana. Read more ›
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Xiaomi joins ASUS in severely limiting the number of devices you can unlock each year. Read more ›
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In 2018, scientists documented the same orca mother carrying her dead calf for 17 days across more than 1,000 miles of water. Read more ›
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Explosives experts told BI the design of the explosives that detonated outside the Trump Hotel didn't appear sophisticated. Read more ›
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Apple started making Siri more capable with Apple Intelligence features in iOS 18.1 and iOS 18.2, but there are additional Siri updates that are set to come in 2025 with iOS 18 and iOS 19. By this time next year, Siri should be much smarter, if Apple's planned changes live up to what the company says is coming. Features Coming in iOS 18 The best new Siri features haven't been... Read more ›
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Apple has reportedly ceased production of its expensive £3500 Vision Pro headset, as unsold stock has piled up. Read more Read more ›
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In her instantly iconic yellow dress, the mob princess turned stone cold baddie quickly became a fan favorite. Read more ›
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Thirty-two years ago today, Deep Space Nine's explosive introduction to Sisko gave us a Star Trek hero unlike any other. Read more ›
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Robotaxis are quickly gaining ground, largely thanks to Alphabet-backed Waymo, which announced in October that it was completing more than 100,000 paid rides for passengers per week. Waymo plans to enter new regions next year. And everything in the market is sure to intensify further as Tesla tries to begin mass-producing its own robotaxis in 2026. Existing ride-hailing services are in for a period of disruption. Uber is one of... Read more ›
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When we looked into the future a year ago, we saw a period ahead full of exciting new AI gadgets, dealmaking at Netflix and trouble in a burgeoning corner of the retail world. But even the best clairvoyants don’t always get it right, and our crystal ball clearly was picking up some static interference when we gazed through it last year. Still, we were pretty correct about that retail guess,... Read more ›
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A Tesla Cybertruck that exploded in front of the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas Wednesday morning, killing the driver and injuring several bystanders, contained gasoline and other fuel canisters and large firework mortars, Las Vegas police said. The findings, which Tesla CEO Elon Musk ... Read more ›
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Benefits startup Level has told its clients that it is shutting down after an effort to sell the company fell through, marking another abrupt closure of a fintech that has left users in the lurch. Level, which was founded in 2018 and raised a $27 million Series A round in 2021 led by Khosla Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners, told the companies offering its benefits plans that they would need... Read more ›
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Here’s a deal scoop to wrap up the year: RetailNext, a 17-year-old startup that sells smart cameras to bricks-and-mortar retailers for measuring foot traffic, sold earlier this month to multistage investment firm Battery Ventures, people familiar with the matter said. The transaction might sound small, but it could have bigger implications for what’s to come in venture-backed mergers and acquisitions.Battery’s private equity arm paid between $100 million and $200 million... Read more ›
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The Information’s readers spent a lot of time this year on Elon Musk. And on the artificial intelligence wars. They were early to what’s happening at Apple, too—a foldable phone!—and displayed a deep interest in how tech and politics are increasingly colliding. Read more ›
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At the moment, TikTok is fighting for survival. The Chinese-owned app has been locked in a monthslong legal battle over a law that will ban it in the U.S. on Jan. 19 if it hasn’t cut ties with its parent company, ByteDance. The entire drama is headed for a final showdown next week, with the company planning to argue for its existence in front of the U.S. Supreme Court. But... Read more ›
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While the rest of us were recovering from heavy Christmas dinners and too much time with relatives, Chinese quant trading firm High-Flyer Capital Management dropped the latest update on Thursday to DeepSeek, its open-weight large language model. Senior researchers at American firms including OpenAI and Meta Platforms almost immediately started investigating the Chinese rival’s technology and its claims about what little hardware it took to produce the model.High-Flyer says it... Read more ›
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In many ways, artificial intelligence defined 2024. Nvidia’s perch as the dominant seller of the graphics processing units that power much of AI propelled it past $3 trillion in market capitalization, making it the world’s second most valuable company as of Dec. 27, trailing only Apple. Despite a growing legion of rivals and would-be rivals (see our AI Chip Database), Nvidia’s sales actually grew faster than those of Advanced Micro... Read more ›
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ByteDance continues to use Nvidia’s most advanced artificial intelligence chips despite U.S. efforts to block Chinese companies from using them. The Chinese owner of TikTok recently told suppliers it planned to spend up to $7 billion to access Nvidia chips outside China in 2025, according to a person who has been involved in the plan. The effort, led by co-founder Zhang Yiming, would make ByteDance one of the world’s biggest... Read more ›
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