TikTok says its services are restored after the outage

TikTok says it finally solved all issues related to outages caused by last week’s U.S. snowstorm.

Uber is literally in the driver’s seat when it comes to AV bets

Self-driving truck startup Waabi’s billion-dollar fundraise isn’t just about trucks.   The deal, for $750 million up front plus another $250 million from Uber tied to deployment milestones, marks a major expansion i…

Who’s afraid of the new TikTok?
Who’s afraid of the new TikTok?

The significant problems with the TikTok app last weekend were, according to the company, because of a technical issue stemming from a power outage at a “US data center partner.” Users could not upload new videos and view counts were all out of whack, with few answers or explanations. For TikTok, the timing was unfortunate. […]

TikTok is suppressing ‘content critical of President Trump’ in the US, California governor claims – as investigation looks into whether it ‘violates’ state law

California Governor Gavin Newsom is launching a review of TikTok’s potential violations after more users are reporting anti-Trump censorship.

What you should know about the owners of US TikTok

​ByteDance, TikTok’s Chinese parent company, recently established a separate American entity to run the app’s U.S. operations. This restructuring aims to separate U.S. TikTok from its Chinese parent, addressing concerns about data privacy and foreign c…

TikTok joins Snap to settle social media addiction lawsuit

Jury selection begins Tuesday as this case moves closer to trial.

TikTok says it’s still working to recover its U.S. infrastructure

TikTok says some of the glitches continue but it’s making “significant progress” in recovering its U.S. infrastructure.

TikTok US is mostly back up and running
TikTok US is mostly back up and running

As we moved into the third day of the TikTokalypse, the app appears to have finally stabilized in the US, as we verified that it’s possible to consistently publish new videos and even have other people watch them. That hasn’t been a simple task since the service started having problems early Sunday morning, but on […]

Truth and AI in Minneapolis
Truth and AI in Minneapolis

When federal agents killed Alex Pretti in Minneapolis on Saturday morning, video of the shooting – from lots of people, and lots of angles, with wildly varying levels of quality – immediately began to fly around the internet. This is what always happens in times like these, and there have unfortunately been a lot of […]

TikTok’s new US venture is in trouble – here are the 3 privacy-first apps people are flocking to instead

TikTok users are deleting the app in droves over privacy concerns, while smaller rivals are seeing a big boost in numbers.