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A bill banning TikTok, unless it is sold, passed through the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday and is on its way to the Senate. The bill being rushed through Congress names TikTok outright, but it also bans other apps the President determines to be a “national security threat.” Technology lawyers are…
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Former Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said he’s putting together a group of investors to try and buy TikTok on Thursday. The company maintains it’s not for sale, but the app is in jeopardy after the House of Representatives passed a bill Wednesday that would force its parent company ByteDance to sell the platform or…

It’s Day 14 of Gizmodo’s March Madness bracket challenge to name the greatest app of all time and the people have spoken. Google Earth dominated in yesterday’s poll with more than 76 percent of the vote. Pandora is out! Today, our only photo-editing contestant takes on an app that was in a league of its own.
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