How much is TikTok worth and who could buy it?
NEW YORK (AP) — The supremely popular TikTok could be banned on Jan. 19 under a federal law that forces the video sharing platform to divest itself from its China-based parent company, ByteDance, or...
View ArticleBiden's new executive order aims to shore up US cyber defenses
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden issued an executive order Thursday aimed at strengthening the nation's cybersecurity and making it easier to go after foreign adversaries or hacking groups that...
View ArticleBitcoin soars past $100,000 ahead of possible early action on crypto by Trump
WASHINGTON (AP) — The price of bitcoin topped $100,000 again early Friday as a pumped up cryptocurrency industry expects early action by Donald Trump when he's sworn in as president next week. Once a...
View ArticleTikTok refugees are pouring to Xiaohongshu. Here's what you need to know...
WASHINGTON (AP) — As the fate of TikTok hangs in the balance, U.S. TikTok users are flocking to the Chinese social media app Xiaohongshu, also called RedNote – making it the top downloaded app in the...
View ArticleFor TikTok users, mourning, frustration and clinging to hope as TikTok ban looms
NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. is inching closer and closer to a potential TikTok ban — with the nation's highest court upholding a law that's set to halt new downloads of the app starting Sunday. But many...
View ArticleHow TikTok grew from a fun app for teens into a potential national security...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — If it feels like TikTok has been around forever, that's probably because it has, at least if you're measuring via internet time. What's now in question is whether it will be...
View ArticleTrump's inauguration will usher in a crypto-friendly administration, and with...
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The bitcoin-friendly administration of President-elect Donald Trump and an expanding lobbying effort in statehouses could push states to become more open to crypto and lead...
View ArticleTrump orders government not to infringe on Americans’ speech, calls for...
NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump on Monday ordered that no federal officer, employee or agent may unconstitutionally abridge the free speech of any American citizen, an early step toward his...
View ArticleTrump issues an executive order to suspend the US TikTok ban. But can it stick?
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday to keep TikTok operating for 75 days, a relief to the social media platform’s users even as national security questions persist. TikTok’s...
View ArticleTrump, a populist president, is flanked by tech billionaires at his inauguration
NEW YORK (AP) — Some of the most exclusive seats at President Donald Trump’s inauguration on Monday were reserved for powerful tech CEOs who also happen to be among the world’s richest men. That's a...
View ArticleAuto-followed Trump on Facebook? It's probably because you previously liked...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Some Facebook and Instagram users were surprised to find themselves automatically following the accounts of President Donald Trump or Vice President JD Vance this week after the...
View ArticleAI experiment in halfpipe judging at X Games will give snowboarders a glimpse...
The X Games will experiment judging halfpipe runs this week in Aspen using artificial intelligence, the cutting-edge technology that could someday play a role in the way subjectively judged sports are...
View ArticleTrump pardons founder of Silk Road website
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he had pardoned Ross Ulbricht, the founder of Silk Road, an underground website for selling drugs. Ulbricht had been sentenced to life...
View ArticleTrump administration shuts down White House Spanish-language page and social...
Within hours of President Donald Trump’s inauguration, the new administration took down the Spanish-language version of the official White House website. The site — currently...
View ArticleWisconsin man accused of setting fire to congressman's office over TikTok ban...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Prosecutors charged a Wisconsin man who allegedly told police he tried to burn down a congressman's office because he was upset with the federal TikTok ban with multiple counts on...
View ArticleMrBeast not quite in the bidding race for TikTok just yet, rep says
Jimmy Donaldson — better known online as MrBeast — isn't in the TikTok bidding race just yet, according to a representative for the YouTube star. Donaldson stirred interest in a Jan. 13 post on X...
View ArticleAmazon to close 7 warehouses in the Canadian province of Quebec and eliminate...
Online retailer Amazon said Wednesday that it's closing all seven of its warehouses in the Canadian province of Quebec in the next two months. The e-commerce giant said the move would provide “even...
View ArticleMusk clashes with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman over Trump-supported Stargate AI data...
Elon Musk is clashing with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman over the Stargate artificial intelligence infrastructure project touted by President Donald Trump, the latest in a feud between the two tech...
View ArticleFamilies sue TikTok in France over teen suicides they say are linked to...
CASSIS, France (AP) — In the moment when her world shattered three years ago, Stephanie Mistre found her 15-year-old daughter, Marie, lifeless in the bedroom where she died by suicide. “I went from...
View ArticleOne Tech Tip: How to delete Facebook, Instagram and Threads if you don't like...
LONDON (AP) — Should I stay or should I go — from Meta's social media platforms? That's what some Facebook, Instagram and Threads users are wondering after Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's announcement this...
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