Month: January 2025
TikTok is back, but where are Marvel Snap, CapCut, and Lemon8?
TikTok has returned — at least partially — in the US following a nationwide ban, but other popular ByteDance-owned apps, such as the digital card game Marvel Snap, video editing app CapCut, and the social platform Lemon8, are still blocked. None of these apps, including TikTok, are currently available to…
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Why would Arm’s owner want to buy a rival to AMD and Intel? I can think of one reason
Softbank is apparently looking to buy Ampere Computing Japanese tech giant already owns Graphcore and Arm Experts say Softbank’s ambition would be to rival global hyperscalers SoftBank, the majority stakeholder in Arm, is reportedly in talks to acquire Ampere Computing (via Bnnbloomberg). Ampere, known for its data center chips built…
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TikTok’s service providers still risk billions in penalties for bringing it back online
No matter what TikTok says in its laudatory pop-up messages, President-elect Donald Trump cannot simply declare an extension of the TikTok ban deadline and protect American companies that support it from billions of dollars in fines. Trump seems to want TikTok available for his inauguration on Monday, because “Americans deserve”…
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Instagram is rushing out a new video editing app that sure sounds a lot like CapCut
Instagram head Adam Mosseri took to Threads on Sunday with yet another announcement this weekend, the timing of which surely had nothing at all to do with TikTok and other ByteDance-owned apps (briefly) going dark: a new, free video-editing app called Edits is on the way. Instagram’s Edits will cater…
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Instagram announces a blatant CapCut clone
Edits is more than a video editing app; it’s a full suite of creative tools. There will be a dedicated tab for inspiration, another for keeping track of early ideas, a much higher-quality camera (which I used to record this video), all the editing tools you’d expect, the ability to…
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TikTok isn’t back in the App Store yet
TikTok announced on Sunday that it’s “in the process of restoring service,” but the app is still unavailable in the App Store and Google Play. If you search for TikTok on the App Store, you’ll see a message saying, “TikTok and other ByteDance apps are not available in the country…
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