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Just a few days ago, Mashable published an article investigating why Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies were suddenly in a freefall. Of the four main reasons, three were attributable to Donald Trump and his actions as president. This is not exactly what one would expect from Trump, who promised to be a pro-crypto president after its advocates helped him win the presidency.But over the weekend, as Bitcoin lost roughly one-fifth of its value, Trump suddenly made an announcement that

The Department of Education is now inviting parents to submit complaints about diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts that may be happening at their child's school. Last week, the federal agency launched a new "End DEI" portal that parents can use to report "discrimination based on race or sex" in publicly-funded schools for kindergarten through 12th grade. The department has the authority to investigate discrimination based on race, sex, and disability, among other protected characteristics,

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If you could easily predict TikTok trends, I suspect you'd be spectacularly rich. There's so much money to be made on the platform — brand deals, chart-topping songs, major e-commerce — but its trends are so difficult to foresee. Plus, TikTok is a weird place. A trending sound right now, for instance, is a parody song combining ska — the upbeat, horn-centric, staccato-guitar music that resurged in the '90s — and McDonald's inside the Pentagon. If that sounds lik

"There's something in the air," posted Apple CEO Tim Cook on X. And it's likely a MacBook Air with an M4 chip. On Monday, Cook teased a product drop happening this week. He didn't specify the day or time, but the "air" hint all but confirms strong rumors that it will be the M4 MacBook Air. This was predicted by Bloomberg's Mark Gurman who expected a March launch. Given that today is the first business day in March, that prediction is right on track. Tweet may have been deletedApple is also rumor

Foldable phones are having a moment, but alongside the release of new book-style foldables and flip-style phones, some are experimenting with new concepts. We've seen a few foldables with two hinges instead of one, but the latest concept unveiled at MWC 2025 could be the most polished yet. In fact, the Tecno Phantom Ultimate 2 is one of the thinnest foldable phones yet.To be clear, the Phantom Ultimate 2 is just a concept for now. Tecno hasn’t said anything about releasing the phone to the

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ZTE's Nubia brand is back at MWC with some big releases for 2025. Alongside the flip-style foldable phone it unveiled last week, the company introduced the Nubia Neo 3 series — designed with gamers in mind. These phones feature RGB lighting and hidden shoulder triggers in the phone’s frame.There are other gaming-focused features beyond the shoulder triggers for gaming. Notably, the device has interesting RGB lighting and offers a variety of different designs. It also has a powerful c

The truly overhauled Siri that Apple has promised reportedly might not be ready until 2027. According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, Apple is running way behind on meaningful upgrades for its voice assistant and "conversational version of Siri won’t reach consumers until iOS 20 at best." The slow, staggered, and sometimes delayed rollout of Apple Intelligence features has already indicated that Apple is struggling to deliver a more advanced Siri, akin to OpenAI's ChatGPT. SEE ALSO:Apple Intel

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A new name has joined in the efforts to buy TikTok and keep it running in the U.S.According to Reuters, venture capitalist Alexis Ohanian, the co-founder of Reddit, is joining businessman Frank McCourt in his bid to buy TikTok in the U.S."He has that broad portfolio of experience … of where social media was and, I think, a keen understanding of where it’s evolving," McCourt told Reuters. In a post on his Instagram Stories, Ohanian screenshot the Reuters story and wrote "Ready to buy

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The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is investigating TikTok, Reddit, and Imgur over how they handle children's personal data, the agency announced on Monday.The probe comes amid rising concerns over how social media and video-sharing platforms collect and process data from younger users. The ICO says it will examine how TikTok uses the personal information of 13–17-year-olds to fuel its recommendation algorithms.SEE ALSO:TikTok Creator Marketplace is shutting down

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At the 2025 Oscars, no one had more fun than Colman Domingo, who took every opportunity to get up from his seat and dance. During a commercial break, he even took to the stage to encourage fellow attendees to join in on the fun, all while sipping champagne. Although the Best Actor nominee didn't leave the Dolby Theatre with an Academy Award in hand, he did have his husband, Raúl Domingo, by his side.The couple turned heads on the red carpet, with Colman celebrating his nomination for Sing

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Smartphone manufacturers are battling it out for camera supremacy, but the key to it may end up being modularity. Sure, most people won't want to shell out for modular camera attachments on their phones, but those who do might end up getting far better image quality. Realme is one of the two major smartphone manufacturers to show off a modular camera system that could inform ways to get better images on phones in the future.The concept is called the Realme Ultra, showcased at Mobile World Congre

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Samsung has been teasing its super-thin Galaxy S25 Edge since CES in January, and now the company brought a bunch of actual devices to Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona. There was a catch, though: I wasn't allowed to touch them.SEE ALSO:Hands-on: Xiaomi 15 Ultra has a monster, 200-megapixel periscope camera
Instead, all I could do is take photos of the array of Edges that Samsung brought and hung in a small display surrounded by strict guards. Strict enough to repeatedly tell me to back a

Imagine watching over 3.5 hours of the 2025 Oscars telecast, including seven minutes of rambling from Best Actor winner Adrien Brody, several musical numbers from the Dune: Part Two sandworm, and a failed singalong attempt from Emilia Pérez songwriters Clement Ducol, Camille, and Jacques Audiard — only to miss the final two awards of the night. That happened to me and other unlucky livestream viewers when Hulu's live broadcast of the 97th Academy Awards ended moments before Mikey Ma

Opera has previewed a new AI agent feature that promises to complete online tasks on your behalf, based on simple, written prompts.  Want to book a flight but don’t want to spend ages comparing prices? Tell the bot your preferred flight times, seats, and budget and it’ll get to work in the background, letting you carry on with whatever it was you were doing. Once it’s done, it’ll add the item to your cart and you can proceed to pay.  Unlike existing tools like

British autonomous driving startup Wayve is set to establish a testing and development hub in Germany as it prepares to deploy self-driving vehicles in Europe’s largest automotive market.  Wayve’s new hub will be built near Stuttgart, home to big name car brands including Mercedes-Benz, Porsche, and Audi. Alex Kendall, co-founder and CEO of Wayve, called it the “perfect place” for the company to accelerate the development and testing of AI-powered driving technology

It's been a wild Oscar season, full of thrilling campaigns, shocking scandals, and above all else, incredible movies. Going into this final weekend, Best Picture seemed far from a lock, as award bodies weren't revealing a clear frontrunner. The Vatican-set thriller Conclave won the BAFTA. Anora won Critics Choice and the Spirit Awards, while the Golden Globes gave Best Drama to The Brutalist and Best Musical/Comedy to Emilia Pérez. But as the final moments of the 97th Academy Awards drew

The 97th Academy Awards have begun. Host Conan O'Brien will balance humor and time-management skills to usher audiences at home through a rich array of categories toasting nearly every aspect of great cinema. (Sorry, stunts!) This award season has celebrated the sex-worker dramedy Anora, the Vatican-set thriller Conclave, the folk-fueled biopic A Complete Unknown, the post-World War II epic The Brutalist, the bonkers horror comedy The Substance, and many, many more films. Some of these have won

Mikey Madison has won her first Academy Award for her title role of Anora. The Best Actress winner of the 2025 Oscars is only 25 years old, but — as she joked in a Screen Actors Guild Award bit — she made her breakthrough in Quentin Tarantino's two-time Oscar winner Once Upon A Time In Hollywood as a Manson girl who gets a brutal comeuppance in the movie's history-revising climax. Since then, Madison wowed horror fans with her role in Scream V, catching the eye of acclaimed indi

Anora helmer Sean Baker won the Oscar for Best Director at the 97th Academy Awards, besting Brady Corbet (The Brutalist), James Mangold (A Complete Unknown), Jacques Audiard (Emilia Pérez), and Coralie Fargeat (The Substance). Earlier in the night, he also won Best Achievement in Editing, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Picture as he wrote, directed, edited, and produced Anora.While a previous Baker film, The Florida Project,earned an Oscar nomination for Willem Dafoe's terrific perfor

Adrien Brody has won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his leading role in The Brutalist, in which he plays fictional Jewish Hungarian architect László Tóth.SEE ALSO:'The Brutalist' review: A modern American masterpiece
The award marks Brody's second Oscar win. He first won in 2003 for his performance as Wladyslaw Szpilman in The Pianist, a role that has garnered comparisons to Brody's work as Tóth. As critic Siddhant Adlakha writes in his Mashable review of The Br