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What the U.S. could learn from Indiaâs TikTok banÂ
The hugely popular Chinese app TikTok may be forced out of the U.S. , where a measure to outlaw the video-sharing app has won congressional approval and is on its way to President Biden for his signature. In India, the app was banned nearly four years ago . Hereâs what happened: Why did India ban...
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TikTok Facing Potential US Ban as Congress Passes Bill Requiring Sale
The U.S. Senate voted on Tuesday to pass a bill that will either ban TikTok from app stores operating in the country or force Chinese company ByteDance to sell the short-form video app. The landmark bill has now passed both chambers of Congress, having already been approved by the House of Repres...
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The Morning After: Senate passes the bill that could ban TikTok
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Senate passes law forcing ByteDance to sell TikTok or face a US ban
Clock starts tick-tocking towards January 2025 deadline to get a deal done â or the app could disappear The US Senate has passed a bill that compels TikTok's Chinese owner ByteDance to either offload the app to a US-approved buyer or face a ban. President Biden has indicated he will sign it into ...
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US Senate passes bill that could see TikTok banned
The app's owner, ByteDance, has nine months to sell its stake or face being blocked in the US.
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Senate passes a bill forcing TikTok to face a ban if ByteDance doesnât sell it
The Senate passed a bill, included with the foreign aid package, that will ban TikTok if its owner, ByteDance, doesnât sell it within a year. Senators passed the bill 79-18 Tuesday after the House passed it with overwhelming majority over the weekend. President Joe Biden will have to sign the bil...
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TikTok Divest-or-Ban Bill Passes in the Senate
The U.S. Senate passed the TikTok bill on Tuesday evening in a vote of 79-18 . The bill, which bans TikTok unless Bytedance sells it to a U.S. owner, flew through Congress this week as part of a broader package to provide $90 billion in foreign aid to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. President Joe Bi...
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Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to President Bidenâs desk
A bill that would force China-based company Bytedance to sell TikTok â or else face a US ban of the platform â is all but certain to become law after the Senate passed a foreign aid package including the measure. It now heads to President Joe Biden, who already committed to signing the TikTok le...
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This Is the Beginning of the End of TikTok
After years of negotiations, the Senate approved a bill to force TikTok to either divest from its Chinese owners or face an outright ban.
The Mercedes-Benz G-Class, aka the Gelandewagen (which means "all-terrain vehicle" in German) has been in regular production since 1979. It's changed a lot since then, evolving from a utilitarian off-roader to a desirable luxury icon, but it's never seen a change quite like this. Meet the Merced...
Back in 2022, Mercedes-Benz announced that it was going to release an electric G-Class by the end of 2024. Now, the automaker has formally introduced the electrified version of its iconic luxury vehicle that's known for its exclusivity. The Mercedes-Benz G 580 with EQ Technology comes equipped wi...
The Mercedes-Benz G-Class â the rugged off-road powerhouse that launched in 1979 and has since become a brutalist status symbol â has gone electric. This is, in many ways, Mercedesâ most prestigious car, a model more prized for its presence and exclusivity than its power and capability. Going ele...
The European Commission has waved through new 'right to repair' legislation that aims to make it easier for consumers to get their broken devices fixed, even if products are out of warranty. The EU already requires companies to offer a two-year minimum warranty on common household appliances and ...
The European Union has adopted a right-to-repair directive that will make it easier for consumers to get their devices fixed. The new rules extend a product's guarantee if it breaks under warranty, while obliging manufacturers to repair devices no longer covered. The law still needs to be approve...
The European Union has officially adopted a new set of right-to-repair rules designed to encourage people to repair broken devices, rather than replace them. One of the rules extends a productâs warranty by one year if itâs repaired while still covered. The European Union already requires compan...
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Chamber of Commerce vows to sue FTC, will try to block ban on noncompetes.
Non-compete clauses are a thing of the past thanks to a new ruling from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Read more...
The Federal Trade Commission has voted to ban noncompete agreements nationwide, saying that they are an âunfair method of competition.â Noncompete agreements â which attempt to prevent employees from working for or starting competing businesses â are especially prevalent in the world of tech, wh...
Hinge is adding a âHidden Wordsâ feature to its app, which will filter out likes with comments containing those phrases or words. It pretty much works like a mute filter on social media apps. On Hinge, users can send a message when they like a profile â that message can contain any text. Rivals, ...
Directive places requirements on gizmo vendors, but still needs formal approval The European Parliament has adopted the right-to-repair directive with 584 votes in favor and three against, making repairing goods more accessible and cost-effective.âŠ
Iruyo, a new creation from Nissan, uses two-way cameras, microphones, and a whole lot of cuteness to connect you with your baby in the back seat.
Lamborghiniâs mission to produce gas-electric hybrid versions of all of its models continues with todayâs release of the plug-in hybrid Urus SE. The SUV is the top selling vehicle in Lamborghiniâs lineup, and a hybrid version is sure to draw a lot of interest from the Italian automakerâs custome...
Kenneth Lobo MĂ©ndez, director of planning and sustainability in electricity management, and Marco JimĂ©nez Chavez, an engineer, at the state-run electricity utility Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE). Costa Rica gets more than 99 percent of its electricity from renewables â itâs still ...
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A premium robot vacuum that blows any Roomba away, and it's at its lowest price ever.
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A startup promising âuniversal AI computeâ has joined Franceâs thriving artificial intelligence sector. Paris-based FlexAI emerged from stealth today with a âŹ28.5mn war chest and an ambitious plan to âunlock the future of machine intelligence.â To pick that lock, FlexAI is rearchitecting compute ...
Have you seen that photo of a dog attempting to make sweet and passionate love to a robot dog? Itâs gone viral on sites like Reddit , Instagram , and X . But itâs fake. Hopelessly, tragically fake. Read more...
Many companies dream of dominating the era of artificial intelligence. But hardly any can flip a switch and instantly put their AI in front of the eyeballs of a meaningful percentage of humanity. One of the few that can is Meta, which reaches nearly 4 billion people a month via Facebook, WhatsApp...
Big tech backlash and animus against the machines will invite stifling red tape Video  Generative AI is destined to drown in a tsunami of regulation, argues Santa Clara University law professor Eric Goldman.âŠ
Things have been rough for Spotify. There was anti-vaccine misinformation prominently featured on a Joe Rogan podcast on the app, which garnered quite a lot of criticism, and earlier this month, it also once again raised its prices . The famous music streaming app is also notorious for being anti...
WIRED went along to the company's launch event where customers picked up the very first R1s and learned of an inbound âall-seeingâ accompanying AI device.
Indiaâs central bank on Wednesday ordered Kotak Mahindra Bank to immediately cease onboarding new customers through its online and mobile banking channels, and to stop issuing fresh credit cards, citing serious deficiencies in the bankâs IT systems and risk management practices. Kotak Mahindra Ba...
Checking back in with Windows 11 on Arm on the eve of the Snapdragon X Elite.
A recent analysis from advocacy organization Consumer Reports is the latest to highlight the potential threat of pesticides in our produce. It suggests that around 20% of commonly sold fruits and vegetables in the U.S. could contain unsafe levels of pesticides. Given that concerning news, you mig...
If your mentions, inboxes, and DMs are blowing up with hateful comments, here are the technological and psychological tools you need to weather the storm.
The US Senate voted to pass a bill that could see TikTok banned within a year, pitching creators and businesses dependent on the platform into an uncertain future.
Adobe claims its new VideoGigaGAN generative AI model can upscale video clips more consistently and in higher quality than other VSR methods. Adobe researchers have developed a new generative AI model called VideoGigaGAN that can upscale blurry videos at up to eight times their original resoluti...
International Energy Agency points out obvious: Infrastructure needs to meet demand The International Energy Agency (IEA) is reminding governments to match the continued rapid growth of electric car sales with infrastructure improvements.⊠
The first public beta of Android 15 for the platformâs most faithful users rolled out this month. While the operating system version will arrive much later this yearâtypically right before Octoberâs Pixel launch event âit can be fun to try on new features as theyâre being built out. Read more...
The recent Bitcoin halving has put a spotlight on the popular cryptocurrencyâand raised new questions about the environmental footprint of the crypto world. Mining popular digital currencies demands a tremendous amount of energy, and the reduced supply of Bitcoin will spur operations that are cen...
Conversational AI platform Parloa has nabbed $66 million in a Series B round of funding, a year after the German startup raised $21 million from a swathe of European investors to propel its international growth. The company is focusing on the U.S. market in particular, where Parloa opened a New Y...
Internal emails suggest that the company continued to provide gunshot data to police in cities where its contracts had been canceled.
Decades after her dadâs iconic sports car time-traveled into movie history, Kat DeLorean wants to build a modern remake. Thereâs just one problem: Someone else owns the trademark on her name.
Japanese foundry upstart aims to bolster domestic production while catering to growing demand for custom accelerators Interview  The foundry space is arguably the most complex and competitive it has been in decades as foundry upstarts in the US and Japan look to challenge heavyweights Samsung an...
The EV maker brings forward launch plans for new models as profits drop by more than half.
Tesla profits fell 55% to $1.13 billion in the first quarter from the same year-ago period as a protracted EV price-cutting strategy continued to cut into the automakerâs bottom line. The results, posted after markets closed Tuesday, sent shares up 7% immediately following the release. Tesla repo...
The app recommendations in the Windows 11 Start menu. Microsoft is starting to enable ads inside the Start menu on Windows 11 for all users. After testing these briefly with Windows Insiders earlier this month, Microsoft has started to distribute update KB5036980 to Windows 11 users this week, w...
Welcome to the new episode of the TNW Podcast â the show where we discuss the latest developments in the European technology ecosystem and feature interviews with some of the most interesting people in the industry. In todayâs episode, Ioanna and Andrii talk about the potentially good news about ...
Itâs safe to say that the age of generative AI is well and truly upon us, rapidly changing the world of work as we know it. According to the World Economic Forumâs 2023 Future of Jobs Report, more than 75% of companies are looking to adopt technologies like AI in the next five years, so itâs no s...
Standards body adoption could help ease portability between vendors GQL, the query language for graph databases, has been recognized by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), offering users more portability of queries and skills between graph database systems.âŠ
Madica, an investment program launched by US-based investor Flourish Ventures to back pre-seed startups in Africa, plans to invest in up to 10 ventures by the end of the year, ramping up its funding efforts after closing three initial deals. Madica disclosed the plans to TechCrunch indicating acc...
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The tendency of AI models to make stuff up is helping medical researchers explore new molecules.
One wonders why are there adverts on public-sector portals at all Exclusive  At least 18 public-sector websites in the UK and US send visitor data in some form to various web advertising brokers â including an ad-tech biz in China involved in past privacy controversies, a security firm claims.âŠ
Bang & Olufsen has released just 200 units of its new-old CD changer, but it reminds us that a corporation canât ever delete a physical, plastic disc out of your great big honking CD collection.
You read that right â it's a bit like PokĂ©mon Go, but for telephone poles Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (TEPCO) â which manages infrastructure including the Fukushima nuclear power plant â is reportedly involved in an IP dispute over an app that gamifies the crowdsourced identification of...
With the current iteration of its product going through its paces with a handful of beta customers, FlexAI will launch its first commercial product later this year. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. 
China Mobile alone wants almost 8,000 machines Giant Chinese telco China Mobile, which boasts over a billion customers, wants to purchase nearly 8,000 AI servers.⊠
Glance, which operates a lockscreen platform targetting Android smartphones, is setting its sights on the U.S. market. The Indian startup recently commenced a pilot program in partnership with Motorola and Verizon in the U.S., with plans for a full launch in the country later this year, sources f...
Mercedesâ box-shaped luxury off-roader finally gets an electrified makeover. Continue reading⊠
Permissive licenses may be about to collide with geopolitics The United States Department of Commerce is reportedly considering lawmakers' calls to make it harder for China to use the RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA).âŠ
The test cannot tell if the virus is live. The FDA still assess milk supply as safe.
Eight years ago, Valve began offering no-questions-asked refunds for any game you buy on Steam â as long as you asked for that refund within 14 days of purchase and hadnât played more than two hours of a game. But when Valve started letting you play games ahead of their release dates with its âE...
In theory, this should make it harder for states to compel data-sharing to enforce local laws A revision to the USAâs healthcare and privacy rules aims to protect abortion providers and patients seeking the procedure â or other types of reproductive care such as in vitro fertilization and contrac...
MagSafe isnât a particularly controversial standard, but Iâve heard people grumble about it . They get upset because it doesnât charge quite as efficiently as an old-fashioned cable and they get annoyed that any phone case needs to be MagSafe-compatible. But could charging by cable provide you w...
Teslaâs been undergoing some major changes, and now we have a sense of why: the company says it is upending its product roadmap because of âpressureâ on EV sales. The new and accelerated plan now includes âmore affordable modelsâ that the company claims will be launched next year. Or if Tesla CEO...
Gelsinger and gang certified to court wider array of defense contractors Intel's Foundry division is one step closer to manufacturing chips for military applications using its forthcoming 18A process node.âŠ
A new rule from the US Federal Trade Commission invalidates most noncompete agreements, frequently used to bind tech workers. It could unlock higher wages, and more entrepreneurship and innovation.
The music streaming service reports record profits of over âŹ1bn (ÂŁ860m) after laying off 1500 staff.
Itâs not only food CEOs who need to worry about their bottom lines thanks to in-demand weight loss drugs like Ozempic. Big Tobacco and Alcohol have reason to fret, too. Read more...
A British startup aims to launch science satellites into space in 2025 after raising a fresh £2mn. Blue Skies Space has devised a unique business plan for the stargazers. They will be the first-ever science satellites that provide data directly to researchers via a membership model, the company s...
Bioluminescence, the eerie, beautiful phenomena that allows living things to glow, is way more ancient than previously thought, according to a team of researchers that recently studied the ability in octocorals. Read more...
The Model 3 might get an affordable younger sibling in 2025. Tesla says it will build more affordable electric vehicles â perhaps as soon as 2025 â refuting recent reports that Tesla CEO Elon Musk had canceled plans for a cheaper âModel 2â vehicle in favor of getting a robotaxi out the door. But...
Apple is planning to refresh the entire Mac lineup with updated M4 chips starting in late 2024 and continuing into 2025, and that will include a new M4 chip for Apple's mid-tier desktop machine, the Mac Studio . M4 Chip Rumors Apple has a lineup of M4 chips in development, including the standard ...
The curious case of a living room screen making Windows' Settings app disappear.
After a fourth-month wait, Netflix viewers turned up by the tens of millions to see how Zack Snyderâs Rebel Moon saga finished , but the number didnât quite hit that of the first film. Read more...
Smaller dies, less wafer loss equals lower emissions, exec claims Comment  AMD says its decision to ditch monolithic datacenter chips seven years ago in favor of a chiplet architecture has helped cut global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by tens of thousands of metric tons a year.⊠
Sulfur dioxide in the wine reacts with the aluminum to make hydrogen sulfide. 
You can get this PoooliPrint pocket-sized thermal printer on sale for $69.99 right now (reg. $160). The PoooliPrint is great for printing pictures, notes, and to-do lists, and it's small enough to fit into pockets, backpacks, or suitcases. It works by connecting to the Poooli app (available on iP...
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Microsoft reversed the fix for an Outlook bug causing erroneous security warnings after installing December 2023 security updates [...]
âMicrosoft has released hotfix updates to address multiple known issues impacting Exchange servers after installing the March 2024 security updates. [...]
Health experts say children under age 2 should have zero added sugars in their diets.
Elon Muskâs automaker told investors Tuesday that sales and revenue are down but that new âmore affordable modelsâ will launch before mid-2025, sooner than originally planned.
Leading artificial intelligence companies including OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, Meta and others have jointly pledged to prevent their AI tools from being used to exploit children and generate child sexual abuse material (CSAM). The initiative was led by child-safety group Thorn and All Tech Is Hum...
Jabraâs latest midrange earbuds arenât the best at any one thing, but they do offer a lot of bang for your buck. At this point, itâs safe to say that Jabra makes some of the most reliable earbuds you can buy, especially for the price. The Jabra Elite 5 , like the companyâs prior midrange models,...
Photoshop is finally ready to generate AI art.
A threat actor has been using a content delivery network cache to store information-stealing malware in an ongoing campaign targeting systems U.S., the U.K., Germany, and Japan. [...]
Thermonator, the first "flamethrower-wielding robot dog," is completely legal in 48 US states.
Tesla has shown off a preview of an upcoming ride-hailing feature in its app ahead of an August robotaxi unveiling. The company released mock-ups of the upcoming feature, which showed the ability to âsummonâ a ride from the Tesla app. The company didnât offer many details about how it would work,...
Tesla provided a sneak peek of its upcoming ridehailing mobile app in the companyâs latest earnings report . The companyâs CEO, Elon Musk, has said that Tesla will unveil a long-gestating robotaxi in August . The company revealed five screens from the forthcoming feature. The first screen shows ...
At over 13 inches tall, Mondo âs take on Bane as he appears in Batman: The Animated Series will lend plenty of charismatic villainy to your toy shelf. He comes with swappable facial expressions and hands, with options increased if you go for the deluxe version. Read more...
Thereâs very little good news in Teslaâs Q1 earnings. Earnings per share and revenues both missed analyst expectations. Vehicle deliveries were at their lowest level since the third quarter of 2022. But in the after-hours market, shares of TSLA stock quickly soared by more than 8%. Whatâs going o...
Tesla reported its first quarter earnings during an incredibly shaky moment for the company in which sales numbers and the stock price have both fallen. Against this backdrop, Tesla reported $1.1 billion in net income on $21 billion in revenue, down 9 percent from $23.3 billion the same time las...
eScan AV updates were delivered over HTTP for five years.
Weâve all been there before. You unbox your shiny new PC , everything preinstalled, and youâre so excited youâre practically molting in your chair in anticipation for it to boot up. Youâre so engrossed that you forget thereâs a 10-ton gorilla lying in wait just around the corner. Itâs Windows 11,...
What do Taylor Swift, Deadpool, and industrial grade glycine have in common? Young people are obsessed with all of them.
Government IT projects are known for being challenging, and one of the biggest currently underway is the U.S. effort to forge a civil space traffic coordination platform. Itâs been nearly six years since the Trump administration made the decision to transfer U.S. space coordination out of the mil...
Today, Framework is the modular repairable laptop company . Tomorrow, it wants to be a consumer electronics company, period. Thatâs one of the biggest reasons it just raised another $18 million in funding â it wants to expand beyond the laptop into âadditional product categories.â Framework CEO ...
Microsoftâs 3.8B parameter Phi-3 may rival GPT-3.5, signaling a new era of âsmall language models."
Once available mostly online, the wearable makes its way to yet another retail chain.
Axon, the public safety contractor that popularized the Taser , has launched a new product that is less actively terrifying but still vaguely concerning: an AI-powered software program that lets cops automate their police reports. Read more...
Strange tales from San Francisco A self-driving Waymo taxi in San Francisco was filmed passing unicyclists and scooters â which would have been mundane if it weren't for the fact that the autonomous vehicle drove down the wrong side of the street to do so.âŠ
Grindr admitted sharing HIV status with software firms in 2018, said it stopped.
Demand for Vision Pro is falling. Apple is reportedly cutting its Vision Pro headset shipment forecast for the rest of the year due to cooling demand. Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo writes that Apple cut orders for the Vision Pro even before it launched outside of the US. His sources claim that Appl...
I feel like Iâm suiting up to operate a spaceship. Instead, Iâm about to do lunges and pushups while being told that Iâm getting a much better workout than those suckers who go to a regular gym.
Withit's interpretation of the Titanium band is just as luxurious as Apple's but sells for a fraction of the price. It has a handy clasp feature too.
Every single iPhone and Mac has come with a calculator app, but not the iPad.
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With Falloutâs success and season-two renewal , itâs been seeming ever more unlikely that Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy would get a chance to revisit their previous sci-fi series, Westworldâ cancelled by HBO after four seasons, despite talk about how season five had already been plotted out. Well, ...
Elon Musk is currently battling government officials in Australia who are trying to force X to remove a video of a man being stabbed last week . An Australian court has ordered the video removed globally rather than just having it geo-blocked in Australia. And while Gizmodo has been extremely cri...
The Galaxy A35 5G is a solid budget phone with a high-end display.
The latest product update includes hands-free, live video-sharing, another frame style, and more.
Roland has a new on-the-go podcasting setup with an eye-catching price. The companyâs Go:Podcast studio includes a USB condenser mic (with support for four polar patterns) and a companion app that can stream to platforms like YouTube, Twitch and Facebook. The company describes the Go:Podcast as â...
Graphics giant and partners say they're clean - it's all technically legit More banned Nvidia GPUs are making their way into Chinese universities, local governments, and private companies.âŠ
That new house youâre about to buy could be a time bomb of shoddy, illegal work.
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Itâs not like you didnât already have a dozen Chromecasts floating around your house. What is one more? A new Google TV dongle, potentially packed with upgraded features, is on the horizon. Hopefully, this will be a significant update to the current four-year-old favorite. But the current pricepo...
Wattpad says DMs will be shut down on May 6th, alongside the deletion of all existing messages. Community publishing platform Wattpad is removing the ability for users to send each other direct messages, claiming that the feature has âonly been relevant to a small percentageâ of its global user ...
The deodorant of the future might be possible thanks to viruses that hunt down stink-making bacteria. Scientists in Japan believe theyâve discovered a chemical weapon sourced from bacteriophages that can target a species of bacteria known for contributing to body odor emitted by our armpits. Read...
We tested the company's new generative AI features, which aim to make scalable business video creation quicker and easier.
A 10-minute VIN check can save you thousands down the road.