AUSTIN, Texas (AP) â A push in Texas to ban social media accounts for children under 18 has failed after lawmakers did not take a key vote on creating one of the nation’s toughest restrictions aimed at keeping minors off platforms such as TikTok, Snapchat and Instagram. The bill, which already passed the GOP-controlled state…
TikTok has unveiled a new artificial intelligence feature that allows users to convert still images into animated videos. The feature, calledAI Alive, is the platform’s latest step into generative AI, and marks the first time a major video-centric social media app has introduced image-to-video creation using artificial intelligence. Currently available exclusively for TikTok Stories, the…
Donald Trump has said heâs open to extending the June 19 deadline for a TikTok ban in the US by 75 days, if the short video company is not sold to a US based by that time. In an interaction with NBC’s “Meet the Press” host Kristen Welker, Trump said, “Iâd like to see it…
TikTok has begun testing a new feature calledFootnotes in the United States â a move that echoes similar tools likeCommunity Notes used by X and more recently by Meta. The feature, announced on Wednesday, aims to bring more context and clarity to videos shared on the platform by allowing users to contribute relevant background information…
US President Donald Trump announced plans to sign an executive order to keep TikTok operational for an additional 75 days, as his administration works on a deal to save the app amidst ongoing trade tensions with China over tariffs. Source link
President Donald Trump has said a deal with TikTok’s Chinese parent ByteDance to sell the short video app would be struck before the April 5 deadline, news agency Reuters reported on Sunday. Trump had set the April 5 deadline in January for TikTok to find a non-Chinese buyer or face a US ban on national…
Starbucks baristas have a new job requirement. In addition to remembering to make your latte with no foam, they must also write a little missive on your cup, as per a directive straight from CEO Brian Niccol, who says handwritten notes foster âmoments of connection”âpart of his strategy to get more customers into stores to…
Teleperformance SE, the largest call centre operator in the world, is deploying artificial intelligence across its centres in India to âsoftenâ the accents of English-speaking Indian employees, according to a Bloomberg report. The company says it would make them more âunderstandableâ. Notably, Teleperformance provides customer support to major companies like Apple, Samsung, ByteDance and TikTok….
One day in 1950, Enrico Fermi went out for lunch with his colleagues at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. No one recalls exactly how it happened, but the conversation turned to then-recent reports about unidentified flying objects (UFOs) and the possibility of extra-terrestrial life. All of a sudden, Fermi asked, âWhere is everybody?” This simple…
Every now and then, a jaw-dropping story takes TikTok by storm and morphs into a meme. This week, it was the tale of 33-year-old New Yorker Onijah Andrew Robinson, who flew to Karachi, Pakistan, to be with Nidal Ahmed Memon, a 19-year-old man she reportedly met online. It became a viral sensation that offers an…
