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- TikTok CEO to tell lawmakers its parent company is 'not an agent of China'
Wednesday - 03/22/2023 - 01:54 PMTikTok CEO Shou Chew plans to tell US lawmakers that the app's parent company, ByteDance, does not work for the Chinese government as he seeks to avert a US ban and reassure policymakers TikTok poses no national security threat.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Send us your questions about TikTok
Wednesday - 03/22/2023 - 12:01 AMAs a growing number of lawmakers raise national security concerns about TikTok's ties to China, and some experts worry about the app's impact on young people's mental health, CNN is hosting a special to dig into these issues.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Google begins rolling out its ChatGPT rival
Tuesday - 03/21/2023 - 05:00 PMGoogle is opening up access to Bard, its new AI chatbot tool that directly competes with ChatGPT.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Google was beloved as an employer for years. Then it laid off thousands by email
Monday - 03/20/2023 - 01:12 PMOn the morning of January 20, one Google employee had to call tech support after getting hit with an unusual error message when they tried to log in to their work system.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The US government is once again threatening to ban TikTok. What you should know
Saturday - 03/18/2023 - 11:51 AMNearly two-and-a-half years after the Trump administration threatened to ban TikTok in the United States if it didn't divest from its Chinese owners, the Biden administration is now doing the same.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - FCC cracks down on spammy text messages
Friday - 03/17/2023 - 01:27 PMThe Federal Communications Commission is cracking down on spammy text messages with new rules for telecom companies, citing a surge of consumer complaints in recent years tied to unwanted robotexts.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Baidu stock rebounds after falling sharply in wake of ChatGPT-style bot demo
Friday - 03/17/2023 - 06:33 AMShares in Chinese search giant Baidu rebounded sharply a day after it unveiled ERNIE Bot, its answer to the ChatGPT craze.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - UK bans TikTok on government devices
Thursday - 03/16/2023 - 03:18 PMThe United Kingdom banned TikTok from official government devices on Thursday, adding to similar restrictions imposed by allies in Canada, the European Union and the United States.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Biden administration demands TikTok's Chinese owners spin off their share or face US ban
Thursday - 03/16/2023 - 12:12 AMThe Biden administration has threatened to ban TikTok from the United States unless the app's Chinese owners agree to spin off their share of the social media platform, TikTok acknowledged Wednesday evening.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - What metaverse? Meta says its single largest investment is now in 'advancing AI'
Wednesday - 03/15/2023 - 09:42 AMRoughly a year-and-a-half after Facebook renamed itself "Meta" and said it would go all-in on building a future version of the internet dubbed the metaverse, the tech giant now says its top investment priority will be advancing artificial intelligence.
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- Why Bucks County, Pennsylvania, is suing social media companies
Wednesday - 03/22/2023 - 01:54 PMOne mother in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, said her 18-year-old daughter is so obsessed with TikTok, she'll spend hours making elaborate videos for the Likes, and will post retouched photos of herself online to look skinnier.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - TikTok says it has 150 million US users amid renewed calls for a ban
Tuesday - 03/21/2023 - 05:00 PMTikTok now has 150 million monthly active users in the United States, CEO Shou Chew confirmed on Tuesday, in a clear attempt to highlight the platform's vast and growing reach in the country amid renewed calls for a ban.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - China imports 27 foreign video games as it reopens market to global titles
Tuesday - 03/21/2023 - 03:43 AMChina has approved 27 foreign video games, including titles to be released by Tencent, NetEase and Bilibili, as it gradually reopens the world's largest mobile entertainment market to international titles.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Amazon to lay off 9,000 more workers
Monday - 03/20/2023 - 01:12 PMAmazon is cutting 9,000 more jobs, CEO Andy Jassy announced Monday in a memo to staff.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - US government launches criminal investigation into TikTok parent, reports say
Friday - 03/17/2023 - 09:03 PMThe US government has launched a criminal investigation into TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, over improper access to the personal information of several US citizens, according to Forbes and The New York Times.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - YouTube restores Donald Trump's channel
Friday - 03/17/2023 - 01:27 PMYouTube on Friday said it would restore former President Donald Trump's channel, more than two years after suspending it following the January 6 attack on the US Capitol.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Microsoft is bringing ChatGPT technology to Word, Excel and Outlook
Thursday - 03/16/2023 - 03:18 PMMicrosoft on Thursday outlined its plans to bring artificial intelligence to its most recognizable productivity tools, including Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel and Word, with the promise of changing how millions do their work every day.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 'I am personally sticking with SVB.' Prominent tech figures pledge support for bank
Thursday - 03/16/2023 - 03:18 PMAfter a rollercoaster week for Silicon Valley Bank's customers, some prominent voices in the tech world are now publicly saying they will keep their money with the embattled lender -- and they're urging others to do the same.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - South Korea to build 'world's largest' chip center with $230 billion investment from Samsung
Wednesday - 03/15/2023 - 09:42 AMSouth Korea says it will build an enormous facility to make computer chips in the greater Seoul area, with about $230 billion in investment from memory chip giant Samsung Electronics.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The technology behind ChatGPT is about to get even more powerful
Tuesday - 03/14/2023 - 07:32 PMNearly four months after OpenAI stunned the tech industry with ChatGPT, the company is releasing its next-generation version of the technology that powers the viral chatbot tool.
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- TikTok and its CEO are fighting to save the app in the US
Wednesday - 03/22/2023 - 01:54 PMAt a Harvard Business Review conference earlier this month, where executives, professors and artists appeared for talks on corporate leadership and emotional intelligence, Shou Chew attempted to save his company.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Lawmakers say TikTok is a national security threat, but evidence remains unclear
Tuesday - 03/21/2023 - 05:00 PMAs TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew prepares for his first congressional grilling on Thursday, much of the focus will undoubtedly be on the short-form video app's potential national security risks.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Google suspends Chinese shopping app Pinduoduo over malware
Tuesday - 03/21/2023 - 10:06 AMGoogle has suspended Pinduoduo, a popular Chinese budget shopping app, from its Play Store after finding malware in versions of the app.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The way we work is about to change
Sunday - 03/19/2023 - 03:45 PMIn just a few months, you'll be able to ask a virtual assistant to transcribe meeting notes during a work call, summarize long email threads to quickly draft suggested replies, quickly create a specific chart in Excel, and turn a Word document into a PowerPoint presentation in seconds.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Meta rolls out paid verification option for Facebook and Instagram users in US
Friday - 03/17/2023 - 09:03 PMFacebook and Instagram users in the United States will soon be able to pay to get a coveted blue check on their account.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - New Zealand joins US push to curb TikTok use on official phones with parliament ban
Friday - 03/17/2023 - 06:33 AMNew Zealand will ban TikTok on all devices with access to its parliament by the end of this month, becoming the latest country to impose an official bar on the popular social media platform owned by a Beijing-based tech conglomerate.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 5 jaw-dropping things GPT-4 can do that ChatGPT couldn't
Thursday - 03/16/2023 - 03:18 PMIn the first day after it was unveiled, GPT-4 stunned many users in early tests and a company demo with its ability to draft lawsuits, pass standardized exams and build a working website from a hand-drawn sketch.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Google Glass is being discontinued, again
Thursday - 03/16/2023 - 03:18 PMGoogle will no longer sell the latest Enterprise Edition of Google Glass, the company announced this week, effectively killing off an innovative but failed wearable product line from another era that many consumers may have assumed was long gone.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - T-Mobile to buy Ryan Reynolds' Mint Mobile in a $1.35 billion deal
Wednesday - 03/15/2023 - 05:30 PMRyan Reynolds is about to have a nice payday.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - SVB collapse was driven by 'the first Twitter fueled bank run'
Tuesday - 03/14/2023 - 12:28 PMThe massive amount of customer withdrawals that led to the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank had all the hallmarks of an old-fashioned bank run, but with a new twist befitting the primary industry the bank served: much of it unfolded online.
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