U.S. awards chipmaker Texas Instruments up to $1.6 billion to build factories

Texas Instruments said on Friday it would receive up to $1.6 billion in funding from the U.S. Commerce Department towards the construction of three new facilities, the latest government outlay aimed at bolstering domestic chip production.

The funding, under the U.S. CHIPS and Science Act, will help the company bui

Kim Dotcom loses 12-year battle to halt deportation to U.S.

Kim Dotcom, founder of the once wildly popular file-sharing website Megaupload, lost a 12-year fight this week to halt his deportation from New Zealand to the U.S. on charge

Influencers explain how Kamala Harris’ campaign won TikTok

A social media phenomenon is taking place over on TikTok, and it could have huge implications for the 2024 election. 

For the last three-plus weeks, Kamala Harris’ official campaign account has been grabbing the attention of millions of users, posting videos to trending sounds and memes at a rapid pace with a level of sarcasm and humor that feels far more organic than

This TikTok creator is showing that opting out of TSA face scans isn’t always easy

When you show your ID to the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) worker at airport security, there’s a good chance a camera will automatically photograph your face to match it with the picture on your ID. But travelers trade away their privacy in exchange for a little less time at security, tech privacy activists say. The TSA says opting out of the face scan is easy, but one TikTok creator has shown that’s not always the case. 

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The uncomfortably expensive bracelets of Bama Rush are going viral on TikTok

Since 2021, a critical part of the rushing process for sorority hopefuls at the University of Alabama has involved posting their outfit-of-the-day (or OOTD, for short) to TikTok. As the stakes grow for the SEC sorority hopefuls, they’re adding some expensive jewelry (think: $3,000 bracelets) to their rush portfolios.

David Yurman and Van Cleef & Arpels are Bama Rush favorites

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California lawmakers are about to make a huge decision on the future of AI 

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California’s hotly contested AI bill nears a decisive moment

A new California bill requiring AI companies to enact stricter safety standards

Meta scraps CrowdTangle tool, ‘jeopardizing essential post-election oversight’

Facebook and Instagram parent Meta Platforms has shut down CrowdTangle, a tool widely used by researchers, watchdog organizations and journalists to monitor social media posts, notably to track how misinform

Google AI Overviews gets upgrades, expands to these 6 countries

Google parent Alphabet said on Thursday it was expanding its AI-generated summaries for search queries to six new countries, just two months after it rolled back some capabilities following a problem-riddled launch.

The search giant made

DIY fertility treatments can save prospective parents time and money—but what’s the trade-off?

At 32, Tessa Mills and her husband were having trouble conceiving. They had spent two years trying and gone through a battery of tests. Mill’s husband’s semen analysis came back with a few abnormalities. Their clinician recommended three cycles of IUI (intrauterine insemination).

During an IUI, healthy sperm are separated from the rest of the semen and concentrated into a solution, which is then placed directly in the uterus. The catch was each IUI was $1500 and Mill’s insurance on


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