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TikTok sent a push notification to United States users on Thursday morning asking them to call their local representative to “Stop a TikTok shutdown.” The app refers to a bipartisan bill gaining momentum in Congress this week which could ban TikTok altogether.Mourning the Loss of Addison Rae’s Debut Album | The Meme Machine“Congress is planning a total ban of TikTok,” said the push notification to TikTok users, seen by Gizmodo. “Speak up now – before your government strips 170 million Americans of their Constitutional…

The e-commerce discounter founded in China was the top advertiser by revenue at Meta Platforms last year, and was among the five top-spending advertisers at Google. The e-commerce discounter founded in China was the top advertiser by revenue at Meta Platforms last year, and was among the five top-spending advertisers at Google. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the…

Amid tough market conditions, digital bank Monzo has raised £340mn (€409mn) in new funding, reaching a post-money valuation of £4bn (€4.7bn). The round was led by new investor CapitalG, the growth fund of Google’s parent company Alphabet. GV (Google Ventures, Alphabet’s venture capital investment arm) and HongShan Capital (a ChineseVC firm that split from Sequoia Capital last year) also participated, alongside existing investors including Passion Capital and Tencent. Monzo says that the fresh…

Android-maker Google has agreed to bring back Indian apps it had delisted from its Play Store. This and more in today’s ETtech Top 5.Also in this letter:■ Nasscom plea to Karnataka govt on cab fares■ ETtech Done Deals■ ONDC’s one-year journey Google to reinstate delisted Indian apps on Play Store after govt intervention IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw (centre), Google India head Sanjay Gupta (on Vaishnaw's right), and startup representativesGoogle is ‘temporarily reinstating’ apps of Indian internet companies that…

Dangote Refinery will establish an oil trading unit that will help source feedstock for its 650,000 barrels per day plant on the outskirts of Lagos, Reuters reported on Tuesday, citing sources. The oil trading arm, likely to be situated in London, takes away the need to hire commodity traders for crude supply and related services, which could help scale back costs. While it could soften spending pressure for a refinery just starting to find its feet in crude oil processing, it is a blow to big names like Vitol…

Researchers have made progress against citrus greening disease by developing hybrid citrus trees that produce desirable orange-like fruit and resist the disease. Through genetic analysis, they’ve created tools for early flavor profile screening, marking a significant step in ensuring future hybrids combine disease tolerance with the essential sweet orange flavor.It’s one thing for a hybrid citrus tree to tolerate citrus greening disease (a.k.a. Huanglongbing) and quite another if it also produces orange-like…

Image: Dzelat (Shutterstock)Most people turn on mobile push notifications and then promptly forget about them. However, it turns out that if you’re up to no good, those notifications could get you thrown in prison. The Washington Post reports that the FBI has been using mobile push notification data to unmask people suspected of serious crimes, like pedophilia, terrorism, and murder.Prepping the Sandworm Scenes in Dune: Part TwoThe Post did a little digging into court records and found evidence of at least 130 search…

LIGO has confirmed 90 gravitational wave detections so far, but physicists want to detect more, which will require making the experiment even more sensitive. And that is a challenge.  “The struggle of these detectors is that every time you try to improve them, you actually can make things worse, because they are so sensitive,” says Lisa Barsotti, a physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Nevertheless, Barsotti and her colleagues recently pushed past this challenge, creating a device that will allow…

Tubi knows that people fire up its app just to see what happens to be streaming rather than to search for one specific thing, and the platform is trying to embrace that reality about itself in the form of a playful new brand identity.Today, Tubi began rolling out a new look and feel for its login-free service that’s meant to emphasize how the streamer wants viewers falling down rabbit holes as they search through the thousands of films and series it has to offer. That was also the concept behind Tubi’s 2023 Super Bowl ad…

Rumors have been brewing for weeks now that Europe’s automakers were challenging the EU’s decision to ban ICE vehicles as of 2035. But the ACEA, Europe’s automakers association, said that it is not pushing back and is all in with the EV future. President of the ACEA and CEO of Renault, Luca de Meo told the press this week at the Geneva Motor Show that the auto industry wants no part in arguing “against the regulation,” reports Automotive New Europe. “We are not contesting 2035,” said de Meo. “Now we…