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The U.S. government, once again, wants to ban TikTok. The app has become an introvertible force on American phones since it launched in 2016, defining...
A man stares into the camera and hits me with: “Hey everyone. Genocide is bad.” I scroll down to the next video where another guy proclaims that...
Before Friday, OpenAI seemed unstoppable. Founded in 2015, OpenAI only became a household name in the past year or so following the release of its...
The heated antitrust battle between Google and the U.S. government is set to conclude in the coming days. It’s been a whirlwind 10-week bench trial,...
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The Nightmare Before Christmas is kind of an anti-Disney movie. Sure, it’s produced by Walt Disney Studios, and you can find it on the Disney ...
One year ago, Elon Musk took over Twitter. The acquisition was the culmination of a blistering six months in which one of the world’s richest men...
There’s a truism in tech that goes something like “If you’re not paying for the product, you are the product.” It’s a tired phrase, but...
There’s a reason you’ve maybe been struggling to find Clorox products on store shelves: For the last two months, the consumer products giant has...
The Bachelor franchise is like many of its contestants: early 20s, desperate for attention, and growing tired of itself. In order to save it from its...
Ryan Cohen made his name—and his fortune—at Chewy, co-founding the online pet store before, selling it to Petsmart for $3.35 billion before it...
Donald Trump’s fraud trial is set to go to trial in New York on Oct. 2, but a state supreme court justice dealt the former president a massive blow...
Pebble only has about 15,000 users, but that’s intentional. The co-founders of this new social media platform, known until earlier this week as T2,...
With a net worth of $17 billion, Rupert Murdoch is one of the world’s richest men. And somehow, that figure undersells his influence. Murdoch, who...
Twitter has never been a huge hit with advertisers. But under Elon Musk’s ownership, marked by a name change to X, a rollback of site rules,...
TikTok really wants me to buy a hairbrush. This past week, one popular influencer repeatedly tried to sell me what she called “the viral TikTok...
When Elon Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion last year, he became the steward of a company enmeshed in longstanding data-privacy problems with the US...
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In September 2022, one month before Elon Musk took over Twitter, California governor Gavin Newsom signed AB 587 into law. Dubbed by its proponents as...
In April, the Republican National Committee (RNC) debuted an ad depicting its vision of what would happen if Joe Biden won reelection to the US...