“Me pouring oil in my belly button every night because I refuse to be bloated in 2025,” a TikTok user posted last month, in a clip with 4.3 million views. Yes, you read that right. The latest health trend doing the rounds on the platform involves putting castor oil in your belly button.
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The CEO of AI music platform Suno has claimed “it’s not really enjoyable to make music now.” As you can imagine, actual musicians have some thoughts.
During a podcast interview with 20VC with Harry Stebbings posted to YouTube earlier this month, Mikey Shulman explained that he and the other founders of Suno, the AI-based generative music platform, sought to make
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday seeking to delay by 75 days the enforcement of a ban of popular short-video
In October, Meta unveiled Movie Gen, its latest generative AI model that can create realistic video clips from simple user prompts. Movie Gen is Meta’s third major venture into generative AI, following its Make-A-Scene and Llama AI image models. With this new tool, users can describe the scene they want to create and generate videos of up to 16 seconds and audio clips of up to 45 seconds long.
Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg showcased the model’s capabilities with
If cutting down on doomscrolling and increasing your step count are on your list of New Year’s resolutions for 2025, then I have the app for you. A new iOS app called Steppin, from the co-founder of travel search engine Kayak, will block access to your social media apps until you’ve got your steps in each day.
It’s up to you to decide how many steps are worth one minute of Instagram or five minutes of TikTok (don’t worry, if you get desperate
During his first term as president, Donald Trump led the effort to ban TikTok, the hugely popular video-sharing site he said posed a threat to U.S. national security. But on the eve of his return to the White House, the president-elect is being hailed as the app’s savior.
In 2019, Elon Musk promised a future of self-driving robotaxis. A fleet of one million cars would be available by 2022, he claimed.
That never happened. Musk pushed the release date back to 2023, but that date came and went, too. In 2024, Musk finally revealed his design for an autonomous full self-driving (FSD) robotaxi, the Cybercab. But the Cybercab’s premiere
There are certain social media rules we can all agree on: Ghosting a conversation is impolite, and replying “k” to a text is the equivalent of a backhand slap (violent, wrong, and rude). But what about the rest of the rules? When can we really remind someone of our old Venmo request? What happens when someone tries to flirt with you on LinkedIn?
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A dozen tabs open. Notifications pinging. I just opened my laptop and unread emails are already calling my name.
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Millions of TikTok users in the United States are no longer able to watch videos on the social media platform as a federal ban on the immensely popular app takes effect.
The company’s app was removed Saturday evening from prominent app stores, including the ones operated by Apple and Google, while its website told users that the short-form video platform was no