
Snapchat is combining its Stories and Spotlight functions into one vertical video feed. That feed just happens to look almost identical to TikTok.
The new function, called Simple Snapchat, taps into the endless scroll of short-form video that’s flooding the social media industry, from TikTok to Instagram Reels. Snapchat has been burned before: Back in 2016, Instagram launched its own Stories function, whic

Remember those Minion memes floating around the internet a few months ago—the ones made to resemble Jesus on a cross or rising from the dead? Well, now we know who’s behind them.
Lost? Let’s catch you up. Earlier this year a number of eerily similar videos started cropping up on TikTok. “One day, an animator was messing around, and he created this picture of a little minion,”

Want to improve your gut health, reduce wrinkles, and even cure acne? Eat dirt. At least, according to the latest health trend making the rounds on TikTok.
“[One] teaspoon of organic biodynamic soil has more microorganisms than humans on earth,” Stephanie Adler, a fertility and hormone coach, told her TikTok followers in the closed-captions of a post. In the background, a baby chows

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A small airplane that looks like a fighter jet but doesn’t bear a single weapon could be a pathfinder towards a reinvention of commercial aviation—or a flying footnote destined for a spot in a museum.
Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 testbed airplane has high odds of being the first privately funded aircraft to shoot through the sound barrier. But that accomplishment won’t matter much unless this startup can then build its

The Biden administration is awarding over $3 billion to U.S. companies to boost domestic production of advanced batteries and other materials used f

“It’s a brat summer at Currys, my guys,” says an employee of the British electrical retailer in a TikTok viewed 2.3 million times. “Northumberland Zoo hits different,” a white-haired staff member says in another with almost eight million views. Walking around an 880-year-old bed and breakfast, a visibly older woman


NASA awarded Intuitive Machines a long-term contract potentially worth $4.82 billion to develop, launch, and operate a five-satellite communications and navigation network around the moon.
The network will enable constant connectivity with the moon’s south pole as traffic picks up there, first for landers and rovers, and then for crewed missions as part of Artemis. The contract builds on the company’s manifest, which includes three NASA-funded robotic lander missions und
Google recently announced that it no longer claims to be carbon neutral. Why? Because their investment in artificial intelligence has raised emissions beyond what they can offset. They now hope to reach net-zero carbon by 2030.
This example points to an emerging IT paradox. How can IT support innovation with more graphics processing units (GPUs) and more storage for th