A bill that would ban TikTok in the U.S.—unless its Chinese owner sells most of it—was passed by the Senate and signed into law by President Biden on Wednesday. Soon after Biden signed the bill, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew posted a video urging viewers to “rest assured, we aren’t going anywhere,” adding he is confident TikTok would win in a court challenge. ByteDance said Thursday on Toutiao, a Chinese social-media service it owns, that it “has no plans to sell TikTok.” The new law comes after years of attempts to ban the hugely popular short-video platform, including by former…
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The first race of the Abu Dhabi Autonomous Racing League (A2RL) took place on the Yas Marina Abu Dhabi Grand Prix Formula 1 track today, and I’m pleased to report that a race both began and ended. But the event was not without strife — far from it. During qualifying time trials, the driverless Dallara Super Formula racers outfitted with cameras and software seemed to struggle mightily to complete a full lap. During the trials, cars randomly juked: Or just pulled off the track to take a little break: You get well-acquainted with the interstitial music during these highlights. All…
If you’ve never been one to sleep in socks, you might want to give it a try. Sleeping in socks helps to regulate your body temperature, which can lead to falling asleep faster, waking up less, and sleeping in later, according to research. A study published in the Journal of Physiological Anthropology, found that men who wore socks fell asleep about seven minutes faster, slept 32 minutes longer, and woke up about seven times less often than those who didn’t wear socks. Though it may seem counterintuitive, sleeping in socks helps keep your core temperature—the temperature inside your body, not…
South Africa is commemorating the 30th anniversary of its first democratic election. South Africa is marking Freedom Day – the historic day that changed the course of the country. Hopes were high in 1994, as years of segregation and white-minority rule came to an end, and millions of Black South Africans cast their vote for the first time. But 30 years on, many say there’s little to celebrate. Hope has been replaced by disappointment and scepticism. The African National Congress, which has been in power since the end of apartheid, is accused of not keeping its promises. It has been…
Screenshots/YouTube Once again, the Republican Party completely caved and gave the Democrats everything they wanted. This time, GOP Speaker Mike Johnson flip-flopped on FISA. He’s also about to cave on more foreign aid for Ukraine and Israel. Enter Senator Rand Paul, who has never been shy about criticizing his own party. And now the senator is turning his sights on Speaker Johnson. RELATED: Speaker Mike Johnson Gives Explanation For His Flip-Flop On FISA Spying On Americans Paul Says No Difference Between Johnson and Democrats According to Paul, Johnson has “completely changed” and sold out his conservative principles since becoming House…
Mr Barwiński said the woman, who didn’t want to be named, had also told them that she’d been on the road for many years “searching for a safe place”, and before coming to the Polish border from Belarus, she had spent several years in refugee camps in Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda. She had given birth alone in the forest, Grupa Granica said.
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Baron Capital Chairman and CEO Ron Baron recently saw first hand how Tesla’s self-driving technology is progressing with a ride near the company’s campus in California. The billionaire investor told CNBC on Thursday that he was visiting Elon Musk’s SpaceX near Los Angeles on Monday morning, meeting with engineers and finance staff. Then in the afternoon, he traveled up the coast to Tesla to see employees working on autonomous-driving technology and “the compute people.” Baron said the 12th iteration of the technology has benefitted from enormous amount of data collected by Tesla cars and by more AI-driven computing power. That’s…
For years, Signal has been the go-to messaging app for private communications. The federal government now believes Amazon was using that power inappropriately. According to the Washington Post, the Federal Trade Commission accused top Amazon executives, including former CEO Jeff Bezos, of using Signal’s automatic message deletion feature to hide communications, even after the FTC ordered it to keep those messages around. Amazon was apparently supposed to stop deleting messages after it was notified that the FTC was investigating it for antitrust violations. SEE ALSO: What is Signal? The basics of the most secure messaging app. The FTC’s allegation centers…
Pro-Palestinian demonstrations continue in universities across the United States, as they also spread to schools in Europe and Australia. In the second week of protests calling for a ceasefire in Israel’s war on Gaza, which has killed more than 34,000 Palestinians, thousands of students are calling on dozens of universities to divest from Israel. Some universities have been forced to cancel their graduation ceremonies, while others have seen entire buildings occupied by protesting students. One of the latest to join the movement is The City University of New York (CUNY), where hundreds of students have set up an encampment on…