Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Considering how intertwined music discovery is with TikTok, it wouldn’t be all that surprising if the company launched a music streaming app of its own. Well, patent filings uncovered by Insider suggest TikTok’s working on just that. TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, filed a trademark application with the US…
Monthly Archives: July 2022
Popular video-game streamer Dr Disrespect on Sunday revealed early footage from the first game of his new gaming studio, a first-person shooter titled Deadrop. People are already tearing it to shreds on social media. The announcement comes months after Dr Disrespect announced the launch of the games studio he founded with Call of Duty and…
Brittney Griner in a Russian jail cell (left), Elon Musk (right) ALEXANDER ZEMLIANICHENKO/POOL/AFP via Getty Images (left) and JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images (right) Elon Musk responded to reports of a US-Russia prisoner exchange to free WNBA player Brittney Griner. “Maybe free some people in jail for weed here too?” he tweeted alongside a meme…
China’s third aircraft carrier, Fujian, at its launch ceremony in Shanghai on June 17, 2022. Li Gang/Xinhua via AP Recent photos and videos show developments in Chinese early-warning aircraft and stealth fighter jets. Currently, Chinese aircraft carriers must rely on helicopters as their airborne early-warning system. China has stepped up efforts to develop its next…
Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania. Tom Williams/Pool Photo via AP, File Sen. Pat Toomey on Sunday criticized the Democratic-led climate and tax plan backed by Joe Manchin. “It really looks to me like Joe Manchin has been taken to the cleaners,” the Republican said on CNN. Democrats have hailed the proposed climate investments as something…
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Elon Musk seems confused by what people do during the summer. On July 30, 2022, Musk logged on to Twitter dot com with an important observation. Tweet may have been deleted (opens in a new tab) “Interaction with almost all twitter accounts seem to be much lower in recent weeks & days,” Musk tweeted. “Accurate?”…
This is a preview of a research report from Business Insider Intelligence, Business Insider’s premium research service. To learn more about Business Insider Intelligence, click here. Business Insider Intelligence Digital disruption is rocking the healthcare industry, and key stakeholders — payers, providers, manufacturers, and medical supplies distributors — are all feeling its effects differently. Until…
Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois outside a January 6 committee hearing on June 13, 2022. Drew Angerer/Getty Images Adam Kinzinger told CNN on Friday he found GOP leader Kevin McCarthy to be untrustworthy. After McCarthy contradicted statements from Cassidy Hutchinson, Kinzinger questioned the GOP leader. Kinzinger said that McCarthy will “do whatever he has…
After carrying the latest piece of the country’s Tiangong space station to orbit on July 24th, a Chinese Long March 5B rocket reentered Earth’s atmosphere on Saturday, creating a dazzling (albeit somewhat unsettling) display as it crashed down in the Indian Ocean. A Twitter user named Nazri Sulaiman captured a 27-second clip of the rocket’s…