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Have you ever thought about where the term Wi-Fi comes from? Most people would logically assume it’s a shortened version of some highly technical description for the tech that allowed computers to access the internet wirelessly. But those people would be wrong.
It’s springtime in the United States, and the country’s social media landscape is budding with change. Lawmakers in the Senate are considering a bill that could ban TikTok, or force a divestment from its Chinese parent company ByteDance.
Welcome back to Gizmodo’s March Madness bracket challenge to name the greatest app of all time! Following yesterday’s contest, WhatsApp has been eliminated and Google Maps heads to the Final Four. Now, we have to decide between the world’s biggest video app and the premiere method of making easy payments.
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Financial disclosures show that members of Congress who voted for the so-called “TikTok ban” last week may own between $29 million and $126 million worth of stock in competing tech companies, according to data from Quiver Quantitative, a company that tracks congressional investments. Among the 352 members of the House…