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TikTok is finally "back to normal" in the US after days of technical issues and outages tied to winter storms. Less than a week after companies like Oracle took ownership of TikTok's domestic operations, the platform faced a major power outage when one of its primary US data center sites — run by Oracle — got taken down by the storm. 

The problems started last Monday, January 26, when TikTok


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A glitchy $1 Bill

They say numbers never lie, but what if we don't have them in the first place?

The erosion of economic data over the past year poses a massive risk for individuals and businesses, writes BI's Andy Kiersz. (As our economic data editor, he would know!)


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Olivia Dean just won her very first Grammy, taking home Best New Artist at Sunday's ceremony.

The "Nice To Each Other" artist took the moment to thank her team, including longtime manager Emily Braham, before paying tribute to her family — Dean is British with Guyanese and Jamaican heritage.

"I'm up here as a granddaughter of an immigrant," she said onstage accepting her Grammy. "I'm a product of



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Kendrick Lamar accepts the Best Rap Album award at the Grammys.

Kendrick Lamar made history at the Grammys on Sunday, taking over Jay-Z's throne as the most awarded rapper at the annual music awards.

Now with 27 Grammys (Jay-Z has 25) and 66 nominations, Lamar took home five awards at this year's ceremony including Best Rap Album for GNX, Record of the Year for SZA collab "Luther" (which also won Best Melodic Rap Performance), Best Rap Song for "TV Off," and



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Steve Jobs holds up the new mini iPod at Macworld on January 6, 2004, in San Francisco.
  • Tony Fadell wants Apple to bring back one of its signature devices: the iPod.
  • Fadell, the man behind the famous music device, said Apple could cash in on nostalgia by bringing it back in some form.
  • A number of music listeners want an experience with fewer distractions, he said.

Forget 20


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Ran Grushkowsky, cofounder and CEO of MassPay, said it used to be a challenge to get employees to use AI.
  • A payments company created a profit-sharing program to encourage employees to adopt AI tools.
  • Staff became more efficient, and the company reduced hiring, said its cofounder and CEO, Ran Grushkowsky.
  • Eligible employees earned up to 18% of their salary last year, with higher

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Lady Gaga accepts the award for Best Pop Vocal Album at the Grammys.

Casting a spell on the night, Lady Gaga won two Grammys on Sunday, using her acceptance speech to take a moment for women in the music industry.

Mother Monster was nominated for seven Grammys, taking home best pop vocal album for Mayhem and best dance pop recording for already-eternal banger "Abracadabra," During her acceptance speech, Gaga thanked her team, partner Michael Polansky, and producer



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Apple is getting serious about foldables. Not only will it reportedly launch its first foldable phone, the iPhone Fold (official name still pending) this fall, but it's now (also reportedly) contemplating launching another foldable device, a clamshell-style phone which might or might not be called iPhone Flip.

The news comes via Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, who says the device would be pretty much


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AI is changing everything at consulting firms, including their vaunted interview process.
  • AI is changing everything at the top consulting firms.
  • McKinsey and others are racing to both adopt AI internally and advise clients to do the same.
  • Now, firms are requiring would-be consultants to prove their AI skills in interviews.

Entire books have been written to teach people


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