Will Tik Tok's new owners in the US mess with your feeds. Here's what you need to know. On January 22nd, Tik Tok's deal to split off its US operations closed, giving the cloud giant Oracle and a group of investment firms a chunk of the video sharing platform.Bite Dance, Tik Tok's China based parent company, still has a 19.9% stake, satisfying the federal Tik Tok ban law that went into effect last year. So, how might this affect your feed. For one, the new Tik Tok US will retrain, test, and update its algori ...

Half a million folds. >> Closing, opening, closing, opening. >> That's a single work week for me.>> There you go. >> When companies can design more efficiently, that means we get even better products in our hands faster. Screens aren't just limited to TVs, though.3M can be found inside all kinds of gadgets we know and love, smartwatches, VR headsets, and even foldable phones and tablets, which pose a whole new set of design challenges in need of solutions. In a device like this where we work with Lenovo, th ...

Trump phone update. Dom Preston on our team ran down this claim that has been repeated all over the internet that there were 600,000 pre-orders for the Trump phone. If Trump mobile had managed to sell 600,000 Trump phones, it would actually mean they got $60 million just in pre-orders and that this is like a meaningful thing that clearly a meaningful number of people want.So he ran it down trying to figure out where did this number come from. And it turns out this number appears to have come from essentiall ...

I don't think people care about what their TVs look like. Sony is a storied brand and it is announced a deal to give up control of its TV business to TCL in some sort of joint partnership. >> Is it possible that the the true upside here is the $299 gigantic panel that you buy in Walmart can be better because they can steal some of Sony's tech.>> Maybe. That's what I want. I don't give a about all these expensive TVs.. ...

There was a report from the information that Apple is working on an AI wearable, which of course it is. The news was that it's going to look like an Air Tag. Here are the things that are supposedly inside of this Air Tag sized thing.Two camera lenses, uh, three microphones, a speaker, a physical button, and wireless charging. If you could put all that in an Air Tag, you will have accomplished like an honest to god scientific miracle. The one thing Apple knows about you is that you have an iPhone in your poc ...

Open AI's reputation for better or worse right now is that they're kind of just like throwing a ton of pancakes at the wall and seeing what sticks. >> Did you just say throwing pancakes against the wall. >> Yeah.You know what I mean. Like or maybe the ceiling. >> This a thing people say.I have only ever heard spaghetti thrown against the wall, but pancakes against the wall is is fantastic. >> Wait, what if I've been misusing this for 10 years. I say this all the time.Okay. Yeah, I always say throwing pancak ...

I thought this pen light was AI at first, but apparently it's real. This is from an Italian design brand called Cleti. They made this 12:1 scale of a big pen.In the center where the ink tube should be is an LED tube that produces 2400 lumens of light. It's allegedly going on sale this year for $350, which is less than I would have thought for something like this. You can hang it from the ceiling. You can mount it on the wall.Um, I would I would love to put this in my apartment. I feel like not a lot of peop ...

What are the odds we start to see BYDs on the streets in the US anytime soon. >> I I kind of think it's inevitable. That said, there are incredibly steep obstacles lying in the in BYD's path, right.It is essentially financially impossible for them to sell a car here and make money, which is not to say that they still might not do it. It's just tariffs are so extremely high. Like they're at about 100% I think right now.So, you're talking doubling the cost of what the car and then in addition to all of that, ...

Tesla officially lost its title as the world's bestselling EV maker to a company called BYD out of China. What is BYD and where did it come from. So BYD stands for Build Your Dreams.Incredible. I love it already. >> I mean, like, we're off to the races already.Um, it was founded in the '9s as a battery supplier for mobile phone companies, mostly like Motorola and Nokia. And then they decided around the early 2000s that they were going to pivot to become a car company. That reminds me of Dyson being like, we ...

OpenAI launched chat GBT health, a headline that made me cringe with my whole body from head to toe. >> I think it's a big deal because I mean data privacy of it all. You know, they say that it's a lot safer that it's a walled garden, that it's separate from the rest of Chad GBT, that um you know, there are specific safeguards in place.They wouldn't really get into what they are, but they said there are more than typical Chad GBT. >> Can I just say that that thing that you just said does not give me comfort ...