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A federal court has rejected TikTok’s request to temporarily put on hold a law that could have resulted in a ban on the app next month. The ruling comes in response to an emergency injunction filed by TikTok earlier this week, the latest legal setback for the company as it tries to avoid a blanket ban on its app in the United States.In its request to delay the law’s entry into force, TikTok said it planned to appeal to the Supreme Court. The company’s lawyers also noted that President-elect Donald Trump may want to do things differently given some of…

Instagram, Facebook, Threads and Messenger are coming back online after widespread “technical issues” took down many of Meta’s biggest apps for several hours on Wednesday. “We are 99% complete and just doing final inspections,” the company wrote in the letter. renew Nearly four hours after the outage was first confirmed.The company did not detail the source of the problem or when it would be fully resolved. As of 4:30 p.m. PT on Wednesday, Meta’s status dashboard still showed some “significant disruption” to its business and transparency tools, but other services were marked as “resolved” or “recovering.” However, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp,…

Rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are fundamentally reshaping the data center landscape. Industries such as healthcare, finance, manufacturing, and transportation are beginning to leverage sophisticated predictive algorithms, and as AI models continue to mature and organizations strive to process growing data sets, data centers must rapidly scale to support increasingly complex workflows. Data centers require large amounts of power due to the large amounts of computing required to operate efficiently. Some leaders are particularly concerned about the high energy consumption of AI workloads, citing reservations about the environmental impact. However, many experts believe that this…

Poco M7 5G is expected to launch as the successor of Poco M6 5G, which was launched in India in December 2023. The Indian variant of the smartphone has reportedly been spotted on a popular benchmarking website. This suggests that the phone will be launched soon. Notably, the Poco M7 Pro 5G has been confirmed to launch in India on December 17 alongside the Poco C75 5G phone.Poco M7 5G Geekbench launchAn upcoming smartphone with model number Xiaomi 24108PCE2I has been spotted on Geekbench. The model was previously believed to be the Poco M7 5G, with the “I” indicating that…

TikTok’s attempt to overturn a law that would ban or sell TikTok in the United States starting in early 2025 has been rejected.The social media company had hoped a federal appeals court would agree with its argument that the law was unconstitutional because it represented It has had an “alarming” impact on the free speech of its 170 million U.S. users.But the court upheld the law, calling it “the culmination of extensive, bipartisan action by Congress and successive presidents.”TikTok said it will now take the case to the U.S. Supreme Court, the nation’s top legal body.The United States wants to…

  Maria Diaz/ZDNET ChatGPT Pro: The Ultimate AI Subscription with Unmatched Power and Speed Since the debut of ChatGPT two years ago, the demand for AI chatbots has skyrocketed. To meet this growing demand, OpenAI introduced ChatGPT Plus, offering premium users faster access to its AI models. Now, OpenAI has taken it a step further with an elite subscription tier — ChatGPT Pro, priced at up to $200 per month. Launched during OpenAI’s “12 Days of OpenAI” event, ChatGPT Pro offers unprecedented access to the company’s most advanced AI models and tools. Subscribers gain exclusive benefits, including access to the…

wattWhen Ellen Kapamutengo felt severe pain in her lower abdomen, she thought she might be in labor. It was the ninth month of her first pregnancy and she didn’t want to take the chance. With the help of her mother, the 18-year-old girl climbed into a motorcycle taxi and rushed to a hospital 20 minutes away in Malawi’s capital Lilongwe.At Sector 25 Health Center, they told her it was a false alarm and took her to the delivery room. But things quickly escalated when a routine ultrasound showed her baby was much smaller than expected for this stage of the…

U.S. presidential administrations tend to have a significant impact on technology around the world. So it stands to reason that when Donald Trump returns to the White House in January, his second administration will do the same. Possibly even more than usual, since his Cabinet members are all people with close ties to the Heritage Foundation, the Washington, D.C.-based conservative think tank behind the controversial 900-page leadership mandate, also known as 2025 Plan”). Of course, the incoming administration will impact more than just technology and engineering, but here IEEE Spectrumwe take a deep dive into how a second Trump term…

Getty ImagesProfessional networking site LinkedIn has told Australian lawmakers it is too boring for children to merit inclusion in a proposed ban on social media for under-16s. “LinkedIn simply does not contain content that is interesting and attractive to minors,” the Microsoft-owned company said in a submission to an Australian Senate committee.The Australian government has said this “World-leading” legislation to be introduced Block children from accessing social media platforms.But some of the companies behind the platform most popular with young people — Meta, Google, Snapchat owner Snap Inc and TikTok — have challenged the planned law in submissions to lawmakers.Prime…

LogicMonitor, a leading SaaS-based hybrid observation platform powered by artificial intelligence (AI), announced $800 million in transformative new equity investment and strategic financing from a consortium of investors including PSG, Golub Capital and others. Vista Equity Partners will remain LogicMonitor’s controlling shareholder and the transaction is valued at approximately $2.4 billion, including debt. This round of investment will advance LogicMonitor’s critical role in connecting AI intelligence with the backbone of data center operations, ensuring these mission-critical ecosystems operate at optimal performance, sustainability, and resiliency. Led by CEO Christina Kosmowski, LogicMonitor enables organizations to manage costs and drive resilient AI growth…