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TikTok ordered to dissolve its business in Canada

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

Will Trump ban TikTok?

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

The fatal flaw in road safety

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

I’m a Gen Z man. Here’s why so many of my peers supported Donald Trump

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.

The economy has been good—but not in the way voters wanted

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,

‘Okay, so I was wrong’: Checking in on the TikTok creators who predicted Kamala Harris would win

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.

“For the astrology girlies, I have been studying

What Trump’s win could mean for Google’s antitrust cases

Donald Trump will likely dial back some of the antitrust policies pursued under the administration of President Joe Biden, potentially including a bid to break up Alphabet’s Google ov

Gen Zers are landing job interviews through TikTok

Social media isn’t just for mindless scrolling—for jobseekers it’s also a way to find out who’s hiring, and to connect with hiring managers.

“Hi Jubilee, this is my application for your Digital Media Producer role,” says the user @filmwcolleen in a TikTok application to the media company Jubilee that has recently gone viral, netting over 346,000 views to do. “Hire her do it do it DO IT,” one person

What Elon Musk really wants

If there’s one person former president Donald Trump can thank for his decisive election night victory, it’s Elon Musk. The tech billionaire propelled Trump to a second term on a wave of $119 million in funding to his America PAC, a spree of $1 million giveaways to registered

Silicon Valley leaders are congratulating Donald Trump on his election win

Leaders of the biggest tech companies are taking to social media to congratulate Donald Trump after being reelected for a second presidential term. While Silicon Valley is largely made up of Democrats, a large number of influential executives announced this year that they were throwing their support behind Trump.

Fast Company rounded up a number of Big Tech leaders’ resp


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