After President Joe Biden signed a bill that could ban TikTok in the U.S., its Chinese owner ByteDance is considering selling the popular platform. But a TikTok suitor would need more than both regulatory approval and the stomach to operate a social media company. It would also need the technical chops to rebuild its powerful content recommendation algorithm, which ByteDance plans to strip from the platform when it sells it. This would lower the value of its U.S. business from $100...
As the UK gears up for an election, it’s clear that one of the few areas the Tory party think they can win votes on is immigration.
M. Night Shyamalan takes a stab at a new kind of serial killer movie with his latest film titled "Trap" led by Josh Hartnett and performances by the director's daughter
WORLD OF RUGBY: Fin Baxter may look back on Saturday afternoon as the time when his life changed forever. The Harlequins prop conquered a monster and announced himself as England's next prop star.
IT is not often you hear a mum boast about being “hotter” than her daughter, but it’s the kind of thing Caroline Durridge says without hesitation. The teaching assistant can’t believe how much “scr
AGE might be just a number but women often are shamed for dating someone younger than them. One proud cougar even revealed that she been called ‘damaged goods’ by trolls, but that hasn’t stopped he
Welcome to Money Diaries where we are tackling the ever-present taboo that is money. We’re asking real people how they spend their hard-earned money during a seven-day period — and we’re tracking every last dollar.This week: a senior account manager who makes $113,000 per year and spends some of her money this week on an iPad. Occupation: Senior account managerIndustry: Healthcare Age: 36Location: Queens, New YorkSalary: $113,000Assets: Savings: $1,500Debt: $133,000 (three personal loans,...
Is there a manager for Disney? Because there’s a deleted scene from The Princess Diaries that’s going viral on TikTok, and I need to know who, what, when, where and why they decided to take it out!!! You’ve truly ROBBED us normies of a satisfying viewing experience and ya must pay up. One of the […]
Boston Dynamics’ Atlas robot is now electric. The same week the company retired its hydraulic Atlas model, it unveiled a first look at the newest version of the humanoid. While this robot looks more human-like than its predecessor, it can move in ways no human can. A promotional video shows the new Atlas standing up by spinning its legs around its back and turning its head 180 degrees before walking off screen. Ouch. “Atlas may resemble a human form factor, but we are equipping the robot...
Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M) announced that it will acquire a 26% stake in its
Germany’s complicity with Turkey’s repressive regime worries me more than its döner diplomacy“Nazis eat döner kebabs in secret,” must be one of the dumbest slogans I have seen at German protests against the far right. Yes, the popularity of the kebab in Germany has become something of a symbol of labour migration from Turkey after the second world war. And yes, Nazis get hungry, too. So what? If the consumption of ethnic-minority food was really an obstacle to the ideology of white supremacy,...
In the case of Ilhan Omar and her daughter Isra Hirsi, the apple truly doesn’t fall far from the tree. Hirsi stole the spotlight on MSNBC after being kicked out of Barnard College for her actions related to anti-Israel protests on campus. “Do other student groups have this kind of target on their back, or do you feel that you are being targeted because of the fact that it is in solidarity with Palestinians and against what Israel is doing to Palestinians?” the MSNBC host asked Hirsi. ...