While political scrutiny continues to intensify on the widely popular short video app TikTok in the U.S. and across the world, Lemon8 owned by ByteDance is going viral. Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images Chinese tech giant ByteDance is pushing another social media app in the U.S. — even as its flagship short video
It seems I have lost a bet. In the Rose Garden yesterday afternoon President Joe Biden replied with just one word – “yes” – when I asked him if he would run again. Many months ago my colleague and I bet on whether or not he’d go for a second term. My (flawed) logic –
Renee Elliott, the founder of Planet Organic, is returning to spearhead a rescue deal for the supermarket chain she launched in 1995. Sky News has learnt that Ms Elliott has agreed to lead a takeover of Planet Organic in a deal expected to be finalised on Tuesday. City sources said she had assembled backing from
An Irish woman has described her dramatic escape from Sudan with her children as gunfire erupted around them – and has been left “heartbroken” as her husband remains in the country. Mother-of-three Sarah Widaa told Sky News that she was given just over an hour’s notice to get to the French embassy for an evacuation.
Chamath Palihapitiya Olivia Michael | CNBC Tech investor Chamath Palihapitiya, who said two years ago that bitcoin has replaced gold and predicted the digital currency would climb to $200,000, has a much more cautious view on cryptocurrencies these days. “Crypto is dead in America,” Palihapitiya said in the latest episode of the All-In podcast. Palihapitiya
The government will take a nursing union to court next week in an attempt to stop its latest strike action. Members of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) are due to walk-out for 48 hours from 8pm on Sunday night until 8pm on Tuesday 2 May after rejecting the latest pay offer from the government.
Only Fools And Horses star Patrick Murray has revealed his lung cancer has returned and spread – despite previous hopes he had been cured. Murray, 66, who played Mickey Pearce in the classic sitcom, first announced his diagnosis in January 2022. But in May last year, the actor expressed hope that an operation to remove
VinFast released its most affordable EV yet on Friday, the VF 5 Plus electric SUV, starting at around $23,000. According to VinFast, the electric SUV received 3,000 reservations within nine hours of opening orders. VinFast has made a name for itself after producing and delivering the first fully electric vehicle sold in Vietnam. The EV
Less than four minutes into the flight, the upper-stage Starship failed to separate as designed from the lower-stage Super Heavy, and the combined vehicle was seen flipping end over end before exploding. Nevertheless, SpaceX officials on the webcast cheered the feat of getting the fully integrated Starship and booster rocket off the ground for a
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell has been ordered to pay $5 million to an expert who debunked his data related to the 2020 election, according to a decision by the arbitration panel obtained by CNN. CNN’s Sara Murray reports. #CNN #News
6:00 AM ET FOR THE BRIEFEST of moments, the Minnesota Vikings‘ 2003 draft room swelled with relief. A frenzied effort to trade their No. 7 overall pick had seemingly concluded with a last-minute deal. Rob Brzezinski, the Vikings vice president of football operations at the time, had reported the terms to the NFL’s draft table
A team of British troops have flown into a port in eastern Sudan on a reconnaissance mission as the UK works out options to help evacuate British nationals stranded in the crisis-hit country, Sky News understands. The soldiers landed at Port Sudan, on the Red Sea on Monday. A flight tracking website showed a C-17
In this article AAPL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Tim Cook during WWDC 2022 Event Source: Apple Apple’s virtual reality headset will run with hundreds of thousands of iPad apps and take an all-encompassing approach to features, according to Bloomberg. In a bid to entice both developers and consumers, Apple has included gaming, fitness,
A investigation into whether Rishi Sunak breached the MPs’ code of conducted has now been extended. The prime minister was already facing a probe by the standards commissioner into whether he failed to declare an interest over his wife’s finances. But an update on the commissioner’s website on Monday showed he was also being looked
Friends actor Matthew Perry has said he will remove Keanu Reeves’s name and the comment about him from future copies of his book. The actor’s book “Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing”, published last year, will now have some revisions made to it. Perry announced the changes on Saturday at the Los Angeles Times
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has been challenged by the chairman of Burberry over the scrapping of VAT refunds for tourists. Gerry Murphy, who heads the luxury retailer, said that the “spectacular own goal” had made Britain the “least attractive” shopping destination in Europe. The conversation took place at a Business Connect conference, which saw around
Spain could experience its hottest ever day for the month of April this week with forecasters predicting temperatures of up to 40C (104F). Record-breaking temperatures are expected between Wednesday and Friday with temperatures reaching levels normally seen in July. The extreme conditions will follow the driest March in 20 years in some areas which has
A mother and her “monster” partner have been jailed over the death of a two-year-old girl. Kyle Bevan, 31, was given a life sentence for murdering Lola James, the daughter of his partner, in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, with a minimum term of 28 years. Sinead James, Lola’s mother, was sentenced to six years for causing or
Newborn babies and toddlers are among the victims of the most severe online sexual abuse, with the amount of the most extreme material doubling in the last two years, a new report has found. In 2022, the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) took action to remove or block 51,369 web pages containing Category A child sexual
China will explore using 3D printing technology to construct buildings on the moon, the official China Daily reported on Monday, as Beijing solidifies plans for long-term lunar habitation. In the 2020 Chinese lunar mission, the Chang’e 5, named after the mythical Chinese goddess of the moon, an uncrewed probe took back to Earth China’s first