"You're ignoring the major concern here" of China manipulating content through TikTok's industry-envied algorithm and harvesting user data, Chief Justice John Roberts tells TikTok lawyer, Trump's former solicitor general.

The Supreme Court seemed to lean Thursday toward upholding a law forcing Chinese parent company ByteDance to sell off TikTok, with all nine justices indicating national security concerns posed by the social media app outweighed potential threats to free speech.

After years of delays, the billionaire’s Blue Origin space company launched its New Glenn rocket early Thursday.

If New Glenn lifts off on Monday as planned, the Amazon founder’s rocket company will be on track to give Elon Musk’s SpaceX some genuine competition.

President Biden won’t enforce a TikTok ban set to take effect on Sunday, a U.S. official told the Associated Press on Thursday.

TikTok disconnected access to its users in the United States late Saturday shortly before a national ban on the app was to take effect, with President-elect Donald Trump unable to intervene until he takes office.

TikTok warned users in the United States late Saturday (January 18, 2025) that the app would soon become "temporarily unavailable" as a law banning it in the country was set to take effect — though President-elect Donald Trump said he was considering a reprieve.

High-profile tech billionaires, including Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk will sit front and center at President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration.

Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg are expected to ... platform 270 additional days to be divested from its Chinese parent, ByteDance before being blacklisted. It’s the latest effort to buy TikTok ...

Mr Chew will join tech moguls including Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk at the event; Mr Jeff Bezos has also been invited. TikTok, which is owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, declined to comment.

President-elect Donald Trump publicly said Saturday that he will probably give TikTok a 90-day reprieve from a U.S. ban set to take effect Sunday, just before he takes office.