How you can prepare your TikTok account for the upcoming ban

If you’re one of the 170 million TikTok users in the U.S., it’s time to start making sure your account is properly secured and updated ahead of the impending January ban.

What’s going on with TikTok?

The Biden administration pushed through a bill earlier this yea

SpaceX wants to turn its Starbase site into a Texas city

SpaceX is launching a new mission: making its Starbase site a new Texas city.

Billionaire Elon Musk‘s company on Thursday sent a letter to local officials requesting an election to turn what it calls Starbase—the South Texas site where SpaceX builds and launches its massive Starship rockets—into an incorporated city. Residents o

Meta wants Threads to be more like Bluesky. Again

The surest sign a social media platform is winning: when Meta starts cribbing notes from it.

Stories only arrived on Instagram in 2016 after Snapchat proved the ephemeral concept had some heat. Reels launched on Instagram in 2020 and Facebook and

DoorDash is stepping up driver ID checks. Here’s why

DoorDash will require its drivers to verify their identities more often as part of a larger effort to crack down on unauthorized account sharing.

DoorDash has been under pressure to ensure its drivers are operating legally. Over the summer, for example, it pledged to do a better job identifying and removing dangerous drivers aft

YouTube is taking over TV

YouTube was launched in February 2005 and soon adopted a simple motto: “Broadcast Yourself.” While we initially watched on PCs, and then smartphones, it seems that these days an increasing number of us are engaging with YouTube content on our televisions.

That’s one of the key findings of YouTube’s annual ye

GPT is far likelier than other AI models to fabricate quotes by public figures, our analysis shows

Large language models typically perform so similarly that their differences can be measured by millimeters. But in some scenarios, these models are separated by miles.

After a chance discovery that ChatGPT seemed more likely to return strange and unlikely quotes from public figures than Anthropic’s Claude, I prompted 10 different models to provide quotes by famous people about random objects. I generated a data set of 450 public figures and 450 things with Claude, and used the temp

As AI makes its way into movies, Duncan Crabtree-Ireland is fighting for actors’ rights

After years of advocating for actors’ collective rights, Duncan Crabtree-Ireland is finally getting his own close-up. Now executive director of the Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), Crabtree-Ireland has come a long way from his early days as a Los Angeles County prosecutor, transforming himself into one of Hollywood’s most influential behind-the-scenes players since joining the union in 2000. Now, as he leads 160,000 memb

‘I’m not understanding this trend’: TikTok is divided on the Sofia Richie Grainge dance

Who’d have thought Sofia Richie Grainge two-stepping on TikTok could cause such a stir online? 

The 26-year-old can be seen dancing alongside her friend, influencer Jake Shane, in a TikTok video posted November 28. Looking chic in a camel-color sweater and skirt combo, she did a little two-step and shimmy alongside Shane, as they sang TikTok’s current favorite song “Messy” by Lola Young.

If you invested in Apple’s IPO 44 years ago, here’s what your shares would be worth today

On December 12, 1980, a few hours after the opening bell rang on Wall Street, shares of Apple Computer officially began trading. The numbers, by today’s standards, weren’t that impressive.

Apple raised roughly $100 million in the offering (about the equivalent of $383 million in today’s dollars), selling 4.6 million shares at $22 each. Today, Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) has a market cap of $3.75 trillion and shares trade at around $248.


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