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Like father, like son — here's to the birth of a new Crocodile Hunter. Like may other celebrities, Rob Irwin has decided to jump on the TikTok bandwagon. His debut video to the app was an adorable homage to Bindi's daughter, Grace, as he poked fun at himself for being…

An abortion whistleblower site in Texas may be getting carpet-bombed with legions of false tips thanks to the efforts of one TikToker, Sean Black. On Wednesday, the Supreme Court decided 5-4 not to block the Lone Star State’s new law banning most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy while allowing citizens…

A photo of Bytedance's office in Shanghai. (Image credit: TechNode/Shi Jiayi) Chinese video giant ByteDance plans to sell its securities-related businesses at a price between RMB 500 million ($77.4 million) to RMB 1 billion, Chinese media LatePost reported Wednesday. Why it matters: ByteDance’s ventures into the securities sector have received…

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News @andrew_andrew__ Sep 1, 2021, 2:18 pm EDT | 1 min read Razor Good kids’ toys follow a very predictable formula; they’re exciting and trendy, they mix the old with the new, and they annoy the crap out of parents. From what we can tell, Razor’s new line of Lightshow…

BookTok is an online community and hashtag on TikTok where readers post videos of book recommendations, talk about writing novels and make reading-related jokes. With more than 18 billion views, #BookTok is being credited with reigniting interest in young adult fiction. BookTok, a hashtag and online community for book lovers…

TikTok has begun to ban videos showing the newly popular so-called “milk crate challenge” in which a person dangerously attempts to ascend and descend stairs made of stacks of plastic milk crates. “TikTok prohibits content that promotes or glorifies dangerous acts, and we remove videos and redirect searches to our…

TikTok has banned the popular “milk crate challenge” from its platform due to concerns that users participating in the trend could be seriously injured. The TikTok challenge saw users stacking milk crates into a pyramid and then attempting to climb across the unstable structure. The ban comes after several healthcare…

The Transform Technology Summits start October 13th with Low-Code/No Code: Enabling Enterprise Agility. Register now! 90% of Gen Z is now using apps with interactive live video according to a new study by Agora, which polled over 1,000 Gen Z U.S. consumers on their use of “real-time engagement” — commonly…

(RNS) — Researchers analyzing TikTok for extremist content have discovered videos that portray Muslims as supporters of terrorism, clips supporting Holocaust denial and users glorifying the mass shooters behind the Christchurch mosque and Tree of Life Synagogue attacks. The Institute for Strategic Dialogue, a London-based nonprofit that tracks extremism online,…