Photo: Hyundai For the past few years, Kia and Hyundai vehicles have been targeted by thieves thanks to a security flaw popularized on TikTok. The company responded with a software update meant to mitigate the vulnerability, and now we’re seeing the results of that effort. The verdict? It’s better than nothing. The Hyundai Ioniq 5 … Read more
Gif: TikTok / jackistryinghisverybest Every New Yorker knows that when the temperatures start soaring, the subway system’s underground stations become oppressive furnaces. TikTok user jackistryinghisverybest measured the 20-degree spike in heat between the platform and the outdoors with an infrared thermometer on Wednesday. The MTA is taking some action to keep subway riders cool, but … Read more
French TV station France 2 had good reason to highlight Molly Carlson’s Olympic comedy video on Thursday ― it’s flat-out funny. Carlson, a TikTok star and a diver currently second in the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series, recently re-enacted some Olympic sports as if they took place on a high dive. Set to the … Read more
WASHINGTON: The U.S. Justice Department filed a lawsuit Friday against TikTok and parent company ByteDance for failing to protect children’s privacy on the social media app as the Biden administration continues its crackdown on the social media site. The government said TikTok violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act that requires services aimed at children … Read more
In March 2019, TikTok agreed to a US federal court order barring the social media giant from collecting personal information from its youngest users without their parents’ consent. According to a new lawsuit filed by US authorities, TikTok immediately breached that order and now faces penalties of $51,744 per violation per day. TikTok “knowingly allowed … Read more
Needing to call an ambulance because you’ve been hurt is never ideal, but having that ambulance be a Tesla Cybertruck is just adding insult to injury. Well, unfortunately for some folks in Lakewood, New Jersey, that hellish idea is now a reality. Tesla’s Cybertruck Has Finally Arrived This Cybertruck has been wrapped in a red, … Read more
Whilst most people will be happy to see sunny skies and temperatures rising this week, our hair doesn’t always like the hot, humid weather. Many suffer with frizzy locks throughout the summer months, but is there anything to help? One surprising item, which you probably already have in your kitchen cupboard, has been blowing people’s … Read more
A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers introduced legislation on Tuesday to give China’s ByteDance about six months to divest popular short video app TikTok or face a U.S. ban, seeking to tackle national security concerns about its Chinese ownership. Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images TikTok-owner ByteDance’s office in Singapore was hit by mass … Read more
Photo: Joe Drivas (Getty Images) So called travel hacker clout chasers on TikTok are making air travel more dangerous for themselves and more annoying for their fellow travelers with this viral napping hack. Petite young women are sitting with their feet on the seat like a bored toddler at the dinner table, and wrapping the … Read more
Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday launched an account on the popular social media platform TikTok, seizing on the momentum her campaign is experiencing. Videos of Harris, who recently became the presumptive Democratic nominee following President Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the race on Sunday, have already gone viral on the platform, as her ascent to … Read more
