Published on: 2025-04-20 18:26:31
In Brief TikTok content creator Kelley Heyer sued the video game Roblox for using her dance to Charli XCX’s “Apple” without permission. Heyer posted the viral dance in June 2024, which fed off of the hype of Charli XCX’s hit summer album Brat. The dance became so popular that Charli XCX incorporated it into her live show and even invited Heyer to perform the dance at her show in New York City. @kelley.heyer 1 month ago I made a dance on a whim and now look at everyone dancing along and having
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-19 11:20:55
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Once banned by rulers dispatched from Moscow, Poland’s stately polonaise dance that nurtured the country’s spirit even through the dark years of its partition is now honored by UNESCO. This 18th century dance has been performed from aristocratic balls to village celebrations, inspiring composers such as Johann Sebastian Bach and Frederic Chopin. It still figures prominently in big national occasions, pre-graduation balls and weddings. On Dec. 5, this living tradition was
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-13 02:48:41
is a senior editor following news across tech, culture, policy, and entertainment. He joined The Verge in 2021 after several years covering news at Engadget. Donald Trump’s initial 75-day delay against enforcement of the TikTok ban law would’ve expired this weekend, but on Friday, he announced on Truth Social that “I am signing an Executive Order to keep TikTok up and running for an additional 75 days.” This week, Trump announced new taxes on products coming into the US, including a 34 percent
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-16 19:58:00
Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust Why it matters: As ByteDance's April 5 deadline to divest TikTok or face a ban approaches, last-minute players have entered negotiations to potentially take over the U.S. operations of the popular social network. The Trump administration, which postponed the ban in January, is reportedly exploring several options to bring some or all of TikTok under American ownership. Sources recently told The New
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-17 14:51:27
The AppLovin logo arranged on a laptop in New York, US, on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025. AppLovin is one of the companies in negotiations to potentially acquire TikTok, sources familiar with the situation told CNBC's David Faber on Wednesday. The Trump administration, which has been trying to shepherd a deal to shift control of the Chinese-owned app to an American company, is "fully aware" of AppLovin's interest in TikTok, the sources said. Faber said, based on his reporting, that it's unclear wh
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-17 14:54:14
is a senior editor following news across tech, culture, policy, and entertainment. He joined The Verge in 2021 after several years covering news at Engadget. After President Donald Trump pushed back a deadline for banning TikTok in January, the 75-day delay will run out on April 5th, but there’s still no word on a deal that could satisfy the law by shifting control of TikTok away from its Chinese parent company, ByteDance. The Information reports that later today, Trump plans to announce a pla
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-18 02:59:59
According to a report from The New York Times, Amazon has just submitted an offer to acquire TikTok. TikTok will potentially face another U.S. ban as soon as April 5th, if ByteDance does not divest the platform to an American entity by then. The TikTok ban has been an interesting story, to say the least. It was originally slated to be banned on January 19th, 2025. Then, President Trump made an agreement to delay the ban, allowing TikTok to continue operating in the US for longer. However, the
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-18 02:43:09
In Brief Amazon has submitted a bid to acquire all of TikTok, according to a new report from The New York Times. The last-minute bid comes as TikTok faces an April 5 deadline to shed its Chinese ownership or face a ban in the U.S. However, the parties involved in the deal talks do not appear to be taking Amazon’s bid seriously, according to The Times’ report. President Donald Trump is scheduled to meet with officials to discuss the app’s fate on Wednesday. Trump said earlier this week that a d
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-19 04:04:10
Throwing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet. - Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Shelby County v. Holder Abundance, the buzzy new political call to arms by New York Times writer/podcaster Ezra Klein and The Atlantic’s Derek Thompson, is less a book than a manifesto. The primary thrust of Abundance is to ask what we need more of in American society — housing! c
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Ohms are one of the specs that both speaker and receiver manufacturers use to give you an idea about their performance. Speakers and amplifiers alike are usually rated around 8 ohms, but that's not always the case. If your receiver is rated at 6, for example, does that mean you can't connect 8 ohm speakers? For that matter, what's an ohm? While impedance technically does matter, it's not quite as cut and dry as saying "speakers with X impedance should only be connected to receivers with Y imped
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-22 18:30:29
House of the Dragon season three is not expected until next year—but while we wait, we can start speculating about what to expect when the Dance of the Dragons gets underway in earnest. Today there’s some casting news that should thrill fans of George R.R. Martin‘s source-material novel, Fire & Blood: the Winter Wolves are coming! According to an HBO press release announcing the start of production on season three, House of the Dragon has just added Tommy Flanagan as Ser Roderick Dustin and Dan
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Choose your answer and the correct choice will be revealed. Correct Answer: One of the largest technology trade shows Wi-Fi 7 is expected to bring all of these improvements over Wi-Fi 6, except... Comdex, affectionately known in the industry as "Geek Week," was founded by The Interface Group in 1979. Quickly rising to prominence, Comdex (Computer Dealers' Exposition) became one of the world's largest computer trade shows – second only to CeBIT – and was frequently cited as one of the largest
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Ahead of a May deadline to lock in guidance for providers of general purpose AI (GPAI) models on complying with provisions of the EU AI Act that apply to Big AI, a third draft of the Code of Practice was published on Tuesday. The Code has been in formulation since last year, and this draft is expected to be the last revision round before the guidelines are finalized in the coming months. A website has also been launched with the aim of boosting the Code’s accessibility. Written feedback on the
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There’s more Yolo on the horizon: the third season of the Adult Swim series, subtitled Unicorn Trinity, arrives March 9—promising to continue the fantastically zany bestie hijinks of Yolo: Crystal Fantasy and Yolo: Silver Destiny. There’s no other show quite like it, and it deserves to have more eyeballs devouring its freakiness. The first time I discovered Crystal Fantasy, it was late at night after a day at the theme parks on vacation. We’d just gotten back to the hotel room from drinking all
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Ofcom, the U.K.’s internet safety regulator, has published another new draft guidance as it continues to implement the Online Safety Act (OSA) — the latest set of recommendations aim to support in-scope firms to meet legal obligations to protect women and girls from online threats like harassment and bullying, misogyny, and intimate image abuse. The government has said that protecting women and girls is a priority for its implementation of the OSA. Certain forms of (predominantly) misogynist ab
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On Saturday, employees throughout the federal government received an email from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), demanding a reply with “approx. 5 bullets of what you accomplished last week.” On X, Elon Musk posted that failure to respond “will be taken as a resignation.” The result? Confusion, chaos, and resentment among a federal workforce that increasingly feels under attack. “So fucking dumb,” says one air traffic controller who received the email and was granted anonymity for fear
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