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Banning TikTok in the US is back on the table after the House voted Wednesday to pass . The House vote revives some US policymakers’ hopes for a forced divestment of TikTok, due to fears that Chinese law could compel its parent company to hand over information on US users, presenting a national security risk.

Manipulated images, edited video, misleading robocalls — none of these things are new to American electoral politics. But with the advent of cheap generative AI, the 2024 presidential election is shaping up to be an unprecedented battleground between voters and their would-be manipulators. The election cycle will test the limits of these new technologies, the resilience

The fate of TikTok in the US now lies with the Senate after House lawmakers voted overwhelmingly to pass a bill that would ban the app unless Chinese parent company ByteDance sells it. President Joe Biden has already said he would sign the bill, the — another attempt to ban TikTok — in the Senate last year

The curious thing about the image that launched a thousand conspiracy theories is not that it was photoshopped. It’s that it was photoshopped badly. The British royal family is like a corporation without an underlying business, a C-suite that is image only. The job is just to be a symbolic representation of the UK. The

Sweet Baby Inc. Faces Online Harassment Campaign Accusations of “Wokeification” in Video Games Sweet Baby Inc., a Montreal-based narrative development…

Way up in the sky and sprinkled across the seas, two of the littlest yet most influential things in the world have stubbornly guarded their secrets: aerosols and phytoplankton. Today, NASA launched its Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, Ocean Ecosystem mission, or PACE, to unravel their mysteries. The mission’s findings could be a key to understanding how

Voyager 1 is still alive out there, barreling into the cosmos more than 15 billion miles away. However, a computer problem has kept the mission’s loyal support team in Southern California from knowing much more about the status of one of NASA’s longest-lived spacecraft. The computer glitch cropped up on November 14, and it affected

In October, Melissa began an in vitro fertilization cycle. A resident of Birmingham, Alabama, her fertility journey to that point had been not just difficult, but harrowing—earlier that year, she had nearly bled to death during a procedure to resolve a second-trimester miscarriage. When the IVF process yielded just a single viable embryo, she had

Don Lemon announced on Wednesday that X owner Elon Musk has canceled the deal for his upcoming talkshow on the platform. Lemon, a former CNN anchor, says Musk terminated the partnership hours after he interviewed the multibillionaire for the first episode of the show. “Elon Musk has canceled the partnership I had with X, which

Sellers on the Etsy-owned clothing resale app Depop have been facing delayed payments. Over the last few months, more and more sellers have reported that their payment dates were being delayed over and over, with little response from Depop’s support team. Depop, which Etsy bought for $1.6 billion in 2021, is like Instagram for pawning