When some users scrolled through TikTok today, they were confronted with a rather alarming pop-up: “Stop a TikTok shutdown,” it says, urging users to “tell Congress what TikTok means to you” with a call button.
The pop-up, which users said they could bypass after closing out of the app and reopening it, comes as the House Energy and Commerce Committee is set to discuss a new bipartisan bill on Thursday. If passed, the “Protecting Americans from For
Predicting the future—or at least, trying to—is the backbone of economics and an augur of how our society evolves. Government policies, investment decisions, and global economic plans are all predicated on estimating what’s happening in the future. But guessing right is tricky.
However, a new study by researchers at the London School of Economics, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and the University of Pennsylvania suggests that forecasting the fu
The U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce on Thursday is expected to vote on legislation giving China’s ByteDance six months to divest from short video app TikTok or face a U.S. ban.
Committee approval would set up a vote by U.S. House of Representatives that represents the first significant momentum for a U.S. crackdown on TikTok, which about 170 million U.S. users.
Representative Mike Gallagher, the Republican chairman of the House select China committee, an
Apple is opening small cracks in the iPhone’s digital fortress as part of a regulatory clampdown in Europe that is striving to give consumers more choices—at the risk of creating new avenues for hackers to steal personal and financial information stored on the devices.The overhaul rolling out Thursday only in the European Union represents the biggest changes to the iPhone’s App Store since Apple introduced the concept in 2008. Among other things, people in Europe can down
Europeans scrolling their phones and computers this week will get new choices for default browsers and search engines, where to download iPhone apps and how their personal online data is used.They’re part of changes required under the Digital Markets Act, a set of European Union regulations that six tech companies classed as “gatekeepers”—Amazon, Apple, Google parent Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, and TikTok owner ByteDance—will have to start following by midnig
After a year of basking in global fame, the San Francisco company OpenAI is now confronting a multitude of challenges that could threaten its position at the vanguard of artificial intelligence research.
Some of its conflicts stem from decisions made well before the debut of ChatGPT, particularly its unusual shift from an idealistic nonprofit to a big business backed by billions of dollars in investments.
It’s too early to tell if OpenAI and its attorneys will beat
By feeding creative content into AI-based ad generators, it’s become easy to automate the production of thousands of ads all aimed at increasing views and sales associated with a campaign. It has created an endless war for consumers’ attention among today’s leading companies like Amazon, Google, and TikTok.
But efficiency doesn’t always equal effectiveness. And chasing short-term success is not a recipe for creating meaningful, lasting, emotional connecti
Bay Area-based computer vision startup Nex believes the future of TV is all about getting children (and their parents) off the couch.
Last year, the company released the Nex Playground, a colorful set-top game console for children 8 years and younger with an integrated camera that captures a player’s motions to control gameplay. “Modern entertainment options have made families more sedentary, more isolated from each other,” says Nex cofounder and CEO David Lee.
Revel—the startup that pivoted to EV rideshare after encountering a hang-up or two trying to rent mopeds—has been tapped as the latest partner in Uber’s urgent quest to hit zero emissions for trips in certain regions. Both companies announced Wednesday that they’ve formed an exclusive partnership to optimize New York City’s dismal EV-charging infrastructure.
The multiyear deal gives Uber—which has vowed to make all rides in North America ele
The cryptocurrency industry has poured millions of dollars into electioneering efforts this election season, and the bet already seems to be paying off. On Super Tuesday, where voters in 16 states and 2 territories went to the polls, crypto’s boosters collected their first big wins of the cycle, especially in the contested Democratic field for the open U.S. Senate seat in California.
Major players in the crypto industry reportedly poured $78 million into Super PACs this cycle