Category: Tech
Your old phones can help plant new trees with new AT&T trade-in program
Celebrate Earth Month and support California’s reforestation efforts. Got a pile of old phones and tablets collecting dust in a drawer? Planning to upgrade to the new iPhone and need to get rid of the old one? Good news: You can turn them into a tree. AT&T and insurance company Assurant are teaming up to […]
Tech stocks and crypto prices crater over Trump’s trade war
So much winning. “We’re gonna win so much, you may even get tired of wining,” said Donald Trump at one of his pre-election speeches. A couple of months later, it doesn’t really feel like winning. After two devastatingly tough days for the U.S. stocks and cryptocurrencies, with the S&P 500 …
Trump’s China tariffs reportedly tanked the TikTok deal
Oh, and the TikTok ban has been delayed. President Donald Trump’s plans to enable a US acquisition of TikTok have been thwarted by Trump’s plans to tariff the shit out of China. According to The Verge, the new global tariffs imposed on China and dozens of other nations “seemingly torpedoed” plans for <a …
Meta’s fact-checking program officially ends on Monday
Community Notes will “start appearing gradually” across Meta platforms. Starting Monday, fact-checking on Meta platforms will officially end in the US. Newly appointed chief of global policy Joel Kaplan announced the deadline on Friday in an X post. “By Monday afternoon, our fact-checking program in the US will be officially over. That means …
OpenAI is offering free ChatGPT Plus for college students
You must live in two specific countries to qualify, though. OpenAI is offering two months of free ChatGPT Plus to all college students, as CEO Sam Altman recently announced ahead of a much-anticipated update to the AI chatbot. The offer is available through May for U.S. and Canadian students only, and can be claimed on […]
Microsoft celebrates 50 years with major Copilot announcements and new features
The company is continuing to double down on its AI offerings within Windows. Microsoft is celebrating its 50th anniversary, and the company is having some fun with it. The iconic Windows 95 logo was resurfaced, there is a themed version of Solitaire available, and Bill Gates even posted the source code for the company’s first […]
Trump delays TikTok ban for another 75 days
It looks like TikTok is here to stay for another couple of months. Well, it looks like TikTok is here to stay for U.S. users for another couple of months. Just the day before a TikTok ban was set to go into effect, the Trump administration once again decided to temporarily delay the U.S. ban […]
Is TikTok about to get banned in the U.S.?
Will the app go dark? Here’s what you need to know. The Trump administration extended the deadline for the owners of TikTok to sell their asset until June 19 just one day before the previous extension was set to take effect. While there’s a bit more breathing room for a deal to be made, the […]
YouTube Shorts adds TikTok-style edits
All social media platforms become one. One of the many tools that sets TikTok apart from its competitors is how easy it is to edit videos both in the app and by using its sister app, CapCut. However, other short-form social media apps are working to catch up. First, we heard news that <a …
Metroid Prime 4 proves the Switch 2 Joy-Con mouse can drive a first-person shooter
It works shockingly well. Metroid Prime 4, a game that was announced just a few months after the first Switch came out, is finally coming out sometime this year. Frustratingly, we don’t know the precise date yet, which makes me think it’s closer to the holiday season than we all would like. But I …
