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At a moment when vaccines promise to end the coronavirus pandemic, emerging new variants threaten to accelerate it. The astonishingly fast development of safe and effective vaccines is being stymied by the glacial pace of actual vaccinations while 3,000 Americans die each day. Minimizing death and suffering from COVID-19 requires…

You know those friends that you communicate with entirely through gifs and TikTok links? Well, last week, my best friend sent me this: I've only ever played one Monster Hunter game, and it was Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate on 3DS. I was enjoying it, for the most part - I…

Meena Harris. Meena Harris Meena Harris, niece of Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, has written her second children's book, entitled "Ambitious Girl." Illustrations were done by artist Marissa Valdez.  In the book, a young girl watches a woman on television be called "too ambitious" and "too assertive." In response, she vows…

Watch January 16, 2021 5:28PM EST Kelly Rowland took to Instagram to share a TikTok video in which she was confidently flipping her hair and flaunting her adorable baby bump in a stylish outfit. Kelly Rowland, 39, is close to giving birth to her second child but she’s still busy…

As new musical genres gain popularity, they are often acknowledged with their own genre-specific Billboard charts. Over the years, disco and reggae are among the musical genres awarded their own tallies. An old musical genre is going viral on TikTok, starting with Scotland’s Nathan Evans’ posting of the 19th century…

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Cleantech at CES, TikTok makes accounts of users under 16 private, and the story about a hacker saving 57 terabytes of data before Parler fell off the face of the earth. It’s all the tech news that’s popular right now. Welcome to Hashtag Trending! It’s Wednesday, January 14, and I’m…

Douyin, the sister app of ByteDance’s global sensation TikTok, has been slapped with the maximum penalty for spreading “obscene, pornographic and vulgar information” online, in the latest sign that Beijing is ramping up efforts to clean up the country’s cyberspace. The fine came after internet watchdogs received more than 900…

Kamala Harris is consistently on-message, even in her sock style. The vice president-elect is set to make history in just a few days, and while she continues to work ahead of Inauguration Day, she's also spending time with her family. In a TikTok video shared by Kamala's niece, Meena Harris,…