The Supreme Court and the U.S. government seem hell-bent on pushing TikTok out of existence in the United States in the next week—at least unless its Chinese-based parent company, ByteDance, accedes to a fire sale to a suitable buyer based closer to home. But the curious rise of a competitor app up the App Store rankings in recent days highlights what exactly TikTok’s userbase makes of the ballyhooed “national security threat” Supreme
In Silicon Valley, a million bucks doesn’t exactly count as vast riches. Still, it’s a nice, round figure pregnant with symbolic value. And so it meant something when major tech companies and their leaders lined up to donate that amount to Donald Trump’s fund for his second inauguration.
Members of the Trump $1 Million Club include Amazon, Google, Meta, Mi
Of all the laptops that debut during the CES trade show every January, Lenovo’s tend to be the most interesting.
For years now, the company has indulged in public experimentation, launching laptops with foldable displays, dual screens, and secondary e-ink surfaces. This time around, Lenovo brought out the industry’s first laptop with a rollable display, which expands from a normal-lo
President Joe Biden on Tuesday signed an ambitious executive order on artificial intelligence that seeks to ensure the infrastructure needed for advanced AI operations, such as large-scale data centers and new clean-power facilities, can be built quickly and at scale in the United States.
The executive order directs federal agencies to accelerate lar
Recently, I was invited to speak on stage at Insight Partner’s ScaleUp:AI conference for a panel aptly titled “Build versus Buy.” It shouldn’t be a surprise that this was a topic of discussion; After all, build versus buy is the great AI debate raging in boardrooms right now—a proverbial fork in the road that may separate the winners and losers of the business world over the next five years.
The “buy” path involves purchasing and implementing off-the-shelf GenAI tools, and if you w
When “Théâtre D’opéra Spatial,” an AI-generated artwork, won first prize at a prestigious competition in 2022, the backlash was swift and visceral. For many in the art world, it wasn’t just a controversial winner—it was a direct threat to the human essence of creativity. Generative AI was dismissed as a novelty at best and a cheap imitation at worst. The technology, in
A firefighter emerges from the flames, a bear cub tucked under each arm. Another, in full protective gear, carries a tiny puppy away from the inferno. A third cradles a baby deer close to their chest.
This clip posted to Instagram by @FutureRiderUS last week has more than 43 million views and counting. “Amid the flames, even the smallest lives fight for survival,” reads the caption, bearing the hashtag #CaliforniaWildf
Over the past few years, concerns about billionaires using media outlets they own to signal boost their own beliefs has become a growing concern. Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post. Elon Musk owns X (formerly Twitter)—and might be in the running to buy TikTok, if a Bloomberg report is to be believed.
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AOL is alive and well.
Decades after its heyday, AOL offers a subscription-based browser called AOL Desktop Gold, priced at $6.99 per month. While no longer tied to dial-up internet, it retains much of the charm of its late-’90s and early-2000s predecessor.
In a recent YouTube &t=2s">video, Michael MJD takes viewers on a tour of AOL Desktop Gold. Upon launching the app, Michael is greeted with AOL’s class
