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Trump has approved the TikTok/Oracle deal in the US Late last week, the US government was ready to end TikTok in the US for good -- it would remove the app from all applicable OS app stores by Sunday evening. Mere hours before the ultimate ban was to be implemented, US president Donald Trump approved

Oracle beats Microsoft in TikTok bid to acquire it in the US Because 2020 wasn’t insane enough, US companies have been bidding to take over the US operations of the Chinese short-format video app TikTok. Just because the governmental bodies don’t trust the country where the app originated. On the list of possible buyers were

Facebook test auto-shares Instagram Stories to your newsfeed In a bid to integrate its services even more than they already are, Facebook is working on a feature that’ll allow users to automatically share Instagram Stories to a Facebook news feed.  What makes this slightly confusing, is that it won’t share Insta Stories to Facebook Stories,

Elon Musk shows off a brain chip in a pig in a Neuralink demo Following Neuralink’s recent demo, it seems clear that the world is still a way off from implementing chips in human brains and them having actual use. Last week, Elon Musk demonstrated Neuralink’s brain-machine interface using a pig outfitted with the company’s

Fall Guys coming to mobile in China The new game that’s taken the internet by storm, Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout is currently only available on console and PC, but from the get-go, it has been clear that it might make a great mobile port. Until now, there hasn’t been much talk about adapting the game

Facebook also takes a hit at Apple App Store fee Last week, Apple faced backlash from Epic, the developers behind the popular battle royale game Fortnite, because of its 30% markup on all in-app purchases made on its i-devices. Fortnite is a free-to-play game, which means the devs only make money from IAPs. But thanks

Twitter wants in on the US TikTok deal The brawl to acquire the Chinese short-format app TikTok in the US has gained another fighter. It now looks like Twitter may also be keen on buying out TikTok’s US-based operations. Following the news that Microsoft was looking to purchase, apparently there has been some preliminary talks

A new Oculus Quest has leaked, here’s what it looks like We love random product leaks -- you know, the ones no-one expects ahead of a non-existent launch? That’s what recently happened with the unplanned leak of what looks to be a new Oculus VR headset. Owned by Facebook, the new Oculus seems to bear

Lenovo’s Legion gaming phone leaks, looks like a streaming powerhouse We’re yet to see a gaming smartphone that can take on industry leaders like Samsung and Huawei. Not in terms of raw power -- because that’s where gaming phones have everyone beat, but rather in terms of market dominance.  One thing gaming phones do all-too-well

This creepy AI tool can create HD faces out of pixelated images Let’s say you took the absolute perfect selfie, printed it out and accidentally threw it in the washing machine with your clothes. It came out all kinds of messed up. Luckily, developers have created an AI tool that can build an HD portrait