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How the Trump administration will, or won’t, oversee AI
A second Trump administration will almost certainly reduce the government’
Along with the new M4 MacBook Pro series Apple is releasing this week (here is Fast Company’s review of Apple’s latest laptop), the company is also debuting a new Mac mini. The Mac mini is arguably the more radical of the two: Apple’s diminutive computer has now received its first major design overhaul in 13 years.
Yet the new mini has more to offer
It’s no surprise that students are pushing back on cellphone bans in classrooms. But school administrators in one South Florida county working to pull students’ eyes away from their screens are facing some
Apple gave me an advanced look at its newest flagship laptop, the 16-inch M4 Pro MacBook Pro, which goes on sale to the public tomorrow. I was interested in giving it a test run, of course, but aside from expecting speed increases, thanks to the M4 Pro chip, I honestly wasn’t expecting to be too wowed. MacBook Pros are usually always the best laptop on the market anyway—and this one, on the surface, didn’t seem much more than a spec update over
Canada announced Wednesday it won’t block access to the popular video-sharing app TikTok but is ordering the dissolution of its Canadian business after a national security review of the C
Four years ago, Donald Trump worked to cut off Americans’ access to TikTok. Now, as an actual January ban looms, he could be key to keeping the platform operating as usual in the U.S.
The president-elect, who joined TikTok in June to campaign, appears to have flipped the switch and has come out in support of the ByteDance-owned app in the past year. TikTok executives are also hopeful that the
Unless you’re surrounded by two tons of SUV steel, America’s roads can be a scary place. You’ve seen it crossing a busy street—drivers looking up suddenly as they roll through a stop sign. Vehicles cutting off pedestrians while rushing to make a turn. And far too many people are looking at their phones instead of the road.
More than 25 years ago, Swedish safety engineers created a plan called Vision Zero to eliminate pedestr
For years, young people were supposed to be a bastion of progressivism, the fearless luminaries saving older generations from their chosen demagogues. But, in 2024, four in 10 young people voted for Donald Trump.
The stragglers here are young men, who broke for Trump en masse.
Vice President Kamala Harris lost the presidential race on Tuesday in large part because Americans are dissatisfied with the economy. According to an NBC News exit poll, 31% of voters cited the economy as their top issue.
While President Joe Biden oversaw the economy of the past four years, Harris, in inheriting his position atop the Democratic ticket,
Donald Trump is set to be the next president of the United States. Yet, in an election cycle where national and swing-state polls were neck-and-neck for weeks, it was easy to believe that Vice President Kamala Harris was on track for a landslide victory—or at least, that’s what your TikTok feed might have suggested.
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