The Chinese-owned app went dark over the weekend before it was disconcertingly resurrected just a few hours later, a cheery pop-up pushed to its 170 million-plus American users: “As a result of President Trump’s efforts, TikTok is back in the U.S.!” Yikes. So many of us had hope...
“Thanks for your patience and support,” the TikTok welcome screen read by mid-Sunday, mere hours after the platform went dark and disappeared from app stores. “As a result of President Trump’s efforts, TikTok is back in the U.S.! You can continue to create, share, and discover all...
After realising how much of a rich loser I was, thanks to my three different farms and the two virtual children and partners I’d long neglected, I deleted the save files and booted up a new one. It was time for a fresh start in Version 1.6, and it’s not like I’m the same pe...
On Friday May 12, I went for a training run after school. I’d been slowly working my way through a Couch-to-5K program to get my body back in some kind of running shape, and this was the next session in the program. But I couldn’t do it. Every time I tried to run, I coul...
Gavin Newsom endorsed Kamala Harris’ presidential bid on Sunday evening, after several hours of silence that left political observers questioning his stance. The Democratic governor, who has long shared a parallel trajectory with the vice president as a fellow Californian who also start...
I didn’t notice, because my exposure to SF was limited by what was translated into Portuguese, what was going on until about five years after coming to the US – five years spent catching up on favorites’ books that hadn’t been translated. And then after a while, I started realizing...
David S. Goyer wrote the first two Blade movies, and he was given the chance to helmBlade: Trinityafter German director Oliver Hirschbiegel passed on the project to makeDownfall, a German World War II movie that’s been endlessly meme-ed because of its Hitler...
43:22 —I’m So Tired— Paul has red eyes like he just stepped out for a spliff. Great eye-rubbing “tired” footage. This is the end of their second day back working together after 2½ months. Of most interesting note: also on this day but not included in the doc was a convers...
After the infamous egg photobeat Kylie's Instagram recordin January 2019, the reality star took to social media to clap back at the account. In her post, Kylie shared a meme that read, "Kylie when she sees the world record egg account." Along with the meme was a video of...
Nine months after the declaration of a national emergency due to the emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic, U.S. births fell by 8% in a month. The December drop marked an acceleration in declines in the second part of the year. For the full year, the number of babies born in the count...