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The streaming wars come down to 2: YouTube v. Netflix

For many years, Netflix executives bristled at the notion that the company really had a rival. Not Hollywood powerhouses like Disney, nor tech...

Can TikTok help young people take a break from screens?

How do you stop doomscrolling? By setting a time limit? Putting your phone in a different room? Deleting the app altogether? On Thursday,...

Tiny company with China ties announces big purchase of Trump cryptocurrency

A struggling technology company that has ties to China and relies on TikTok made an unusual announcement this week. It had secured funding...

The US wants to break up Google and Meta: That could be hard

The last time the courts seriously weighed the wisdom of breaking up a giant technology company was a quarter-century ago, after Microsoft was...

Amazon bids to buy TikTok as deadline looms, US administration official says

Amazon.com has put in a last-minute bid to buy TikTok, a U.S. administration official said on Wednesday, just days ahead of an April...

World’s largest call centre uses AI to ‘neutralise accent’, making staff sound less Indian

Teleperformance SE, the largest call centre operator in the world, is deploying artificial intelligence across its centres in India to ‘soften’ the accents...

Is DeepSeek a national security threat? New research highlights ties with Chinese telecom raising data security concerns

The dense clouds over DeepSeek are not clearing anytime soon. After bans on government resources in Italy, France, the US Congress, and elsewhere,...

TikTok says its restoring services in US after Donald Trump promises to halt ban

TikTok restored service in the United States Sunday after briefly going dark, as a law banning the wildly popular app on national security...

Even before TikTok’s troubles, Chinese companies were wary of Washington

Chinese tech companies long looked to the United States as a key market and source of investment. Firms like ByteDance, the company behind...

TikTok might not see Donald Trump’s inauguration ceremony, threatens to go dark in US on 19 January unless…

TikTok, the video-sharing platform with a staggering 170 million American users, is on the verge of going dark this Sunday, right the day...

TikTok ban: TikTok hires ex-Trump administration lawyer ahead of Supreme Court appeal

TikTok and its Chinese owner ByteDance have turned to a veteran US Supreme Court lawyer as they prepare to ask the justices to...