Proposed joint venture may keep TikTok alive
The tech giant Oracle and investment funds Silver Lake and the Abu Dhabi-based MGX plan to form a joint venture company to oversee the video sharing app…
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Popular call-recording app exposes user phone numbers
Just a week after its launch, the viral app Neon has gone dark amid reports of a security flaw that allowed open access to user phone numbers, call…
AI company to pay $1.5 billion settlement
A group of authors will receive $1.5 billion from the artificial intelligence company Anthropic to settle a class action lawsuit. According to Reuters, a…
That AI chatbot is not your best friend
If you think about it, children are constantly complimented for the smallest behaviors, but adults? Not so much– unless they are talking to an AI…
A fair Puritan by E. Percy Moran, 1897
Who were the Puritans, really? The Puritans are remembered for many things, the first Thanksgiving among them. But more than four centuries later,…
Your zodiac sign might not be what you think it is
For millennia, humans have looked to the stars for answers about life’s big questions. Priests in ancient Babylon scoured the heavens, looking for omens…
Why you still get Social Security during shutdowns
You still get Social Security during shutdowns If you have been paying attention (and you can be forgiven for not), government shutdowns happen…
Button trivia
Why do men’s garments button from left to right, while women’s garment are opposite? Aristocratic women needed the help of servants to dress them and…
Nov. 16 is National Button Day: Your button collection has a royal history
That jar of buttons tucked in your dresser drawer has quite a history. Buttons were an innovation that changed the way kings dressed — and regular…
November is National Family Caregivers Month: Caring for Your Loved Ones
For families whose elderly members need a little extra attention, caregiving can be rewarding’a labor of love that can be life-changing in more than one…