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President-elect Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court on Friday to pause the potential TikTok ban from going into effect until his administration can pursue a “political resolution” to the issue.
The request came as TikTok and the Biden administration filed opposing briefs to the court, in which the company argued the court should strike down a law that could ban the platform by Jan. 19 while the government emphasized its position that the statute is needed to eliminate a national security risk.

After a long day of stops and starts that stretched well into the evening, and on what appeared to be the company's fifth attempt Friday, Blue Origin successfully ignited the seven main engines on its massive New Glenn rocket.
The test firing as fog built over the Florida coast marks the final major step in the rocket company's campaign to bring the New Glenn rocket—a privately developed, super-heavy lift vehicle—to launch readiness. Blue Origin said it fired the vehicle's engines for a duration of 24 seconds. They fired at full thrust for 13 of those seconds.

A court filing in the Google monopoly case reveals Apple's lack of appetite for building a search engine or entering the search text ad market.

SAN FRANCISCO — The parents of a former OpenAI researcher known for recently blowing the whistle on the company’s business practices are questioning the circumstances of their son’s death last month.
In an interview this week, Suchir Balaji’s mother and father expressed confusion and shock over his sudden passing, expressing doubt their son could have died by suicide, as determined by the county medical examiner.

Massive data centers power large language models but produce fine particles linked to asthma, cancers, and premature deaths.

The oil companies’ retrenchment is bad news for efforts to mitigate climate change.

The federal proposal follows years of lawsuits against Johnson & Johnson and other companies alleging links between talc-based baby powder and cancer.

Unsurprisingly, 2024 is also set to break 2023’s record for the hottest year ever.

This year is set to break the previous year’s record for the hottest year, and according to new research, much of that heat was a result of human-caused climate change.

Suspect in UnitedHealthcare CEO murder, Luigi Mangione, pleads not guilty as defense fund soars

Luigi Mangione pleaded not guilty in the assassination of UnitedHeathcare CEO Brian Thompson on Monday. Following the plea, an uptick in donations to Mangione’s legal defense fund rolled in on the crowdfunding site GiveSendGo. At present, the sum sits at a staggering $212,426.