Non mobile technology

Non mobile technology

You Can Now Watch Mini Dramas on TikTok’s Standalone ‘PineDrama’ App

TikTok looks like it’s doubling down on the “pine” in its mini dramas with the new PineDrama app, now available on both the Apple App Store and Google Play. It’s free, likely until the company has amassed a large enough content library worth paying for.  At the moment, everything looks like romantic potboilers, but since

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Chinese EVs are coming to Canada. How soon will they be here? How much will they cost?

Buckle up! The electric vehicle market in this country is about to take a sharp turn. Prime Minister Mark Carney is reopening Canada to Chinese-made EVs, lowering a 100 per cent tariff on imports, imposed in 2024, back to six per cent. There’s demand for more affordable and climate-conscious EVs and, for an average customer,

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Bill introduced in Mississippi House to restrict cell phone use in classroom

Legislation has been introduced in the Mississippi House of Representatives to restrict the use of cell phones in public school classrooms. House Bill 570, authored by DeSoto County Republican Kimberly Remak, requires local school boards to establish “age- and developmentally-appropriate” policies and to mandate “cell phone-free education from bell-to-bell,” meaning devices would be restricted from

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Why the ‘Are You Dead?’ app is going viral in China

IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. U.S. senators visit Denmark to calm Greenland tensions 01:06 Now Playing Why the ‘Are You Dead?’ app is going viral in China 01:22 UP NEXT Food delivery robot struck by Brightline train 00:13 Trump pardons former Puerto Rican governor 00:26

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TikTok Launches a New Micro Drama App Called PineDrama

TikTok is making a fresh bet in one of the most promising new media categories: micro dramas. The company has rolled out a new stand-alone app in the US and Brazil, called PineDrama, dedicated to micro drama series. Micro dramas — also called “verticals” and “mini dramas” — are serialized shows that users watch in

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Looki L1 AI Pendant Hands-on: Ridiculous, But I Kind Of Love It

 The Looki L1 is one of the most unique wearables I spotted at CES 2026.  It’s a tiny little camera that’s shaped like some kind of obscure Pokémon and worn around your neck. It then tracks your day, provides AI “help”, and gently criticizes your life choices. At least, it did in my case.   To test out the L1, I decided to wear it for

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X is down for some – here’s everything we know about the outage

Refresh 2026-01-16T16:22:44.707Z Down Detector reports are steadily dropping as well, currently sitting at under 8,000 reports as of 11:02 AM ET. Let us know in the comments down below if you’re able to access X again and see more recent posts. (Image credit: Future) 2026-01-16T16:19:20.541Z Considering many of the posts appearing in our timelines are

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Your Android App Needs Scanning – Best Android App Vulnerability Scanner in 2026

Given the threat-dominating space we cannot escape, we need a game-changer that becomes the ultimate tool for protecting our Android app. Now, imagine your organisation’s application is used by hundreds and thousands of Android users, given that your flagship Android app is always running on it. How sure are you that your app security is

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Mamdani Warns Delivery Apps to Follow New Worker Protection Laws — Or Else

Click for all our mayoral transition coverage.For all our coverage of the new mayor, click here. Zohran is delivering the goods.  Mayor Mamdani’s administration on Thursday warned more than 60 delivery app companies to abide by several new worker regulations that take effect in late January. “Amendments to the Delivery Worker Laws go into effect

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MongoDB Aims For Production-Ready AI Apps With New Model Capabilities

MongoDB is more tightly integrating the embedding and reranking model technology it obtained last year through its Voyage AI acquisition with its database development platform. MongoDB is expanding the AI capabilities of its database and application development platform with newly integrated embedding and reranking models that the company says will improve the accuracy of AI

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North Korea intensifies border crackdown on Chinese mobile phone users

FILE PHOTO: A sentry post on the Sino-North Korean border in Sakju County, North Pyongan Province. (Daily NK) North Korean authorities have launched another so-called mopping-up operation—a sweeping crackdown—on users of Chinese mobile phones, focusing on regions along the Chinese border. North Korea has once again launched full-scale efforts to block the flow of outside

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Congress Members Beg FTC to Investigate Golden ‘Trump Phones’

A group of Democratic congressmembers is calling on the Federal Trade Commission to look into the legitimacy of the Trump family’s new smartphone venture, Trump Mobile. Co-led by Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Robert Garcia, the group of 11 lawmakers across the House and Senate called on the FTC to investigate the company, created by

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Not made in US? Trump’s ‘T1’ gold phones speculated to be made in China as MAGA supporters wait for delivery

Questions are mounting over whether hundreds of thousands of customers who paid deposits for the Trump Mobile “T1” phone last year will receive refunds, as Democratic lawmakers urge federal regulators to investigate the venture for possible consumer protection violations.A group of Democratic lawmakers has asked the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to examine Trump Mobile, a

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Headlines Say Demand for New EVs is Cooling. At Manheim, We’re Ready for the Surge Still to Come

By Grace Huang, President, Cox Automotive Inventory Solutions If you read recent media headlines, you may think the EV market is slipping into decline. Stories about softening demand, disappearing government-backed incentives and price volatility have fueled the perception that electric vehicles are losing momentum. If you read recent media headlines, you may think the EV

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Apple Bundles Pro Apps into New Creator Studio Subscription

Apple has announced Apple Creator Studio, a new subscription bundle that packages the company’s professional creative applications—Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, Pixelmator Pro, Motion, Compressor, and MainStage—together with premium features for Keynote, Pages, Numbers, and Freeform (which otherwise remain free). The bundle launches on 28 January 2026 and costs $12.99 per month or $129 per

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Kroger Launches Fast, Convenient Delivery on Uber Apps Nationwide

Nearly 2,700 locations from Kroger’s Family of Companies are now available on Uber Eats, Uber, and Postmates for customers nationwide. CINCINNATI and SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Uber Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: UBER) and The Kroger Co. (NYSE: KR) today announced the launch of nearly 2,700 Kroger Family of Companies stores on the Uber

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How AI agents are reshaping in-app customer support for mobile apps

In-app customer support has evolved into a characteristic feature of the mobile app experience. According to recent research, the integration of AI agents in customer support is projected to handle 95% of all customer interactions. Users are now willing to get immediate responses without even leaving the app, particularly with payments, logins, subscriptions, or feature

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5 Best Team Chat Apps I’d Use to Run Any Team in 2026

Some days, I swear my real job is finding the decision we already made. A teammate drops context in a channel, someone else follows up in a DM, and a third person circles back in a meeting chat I forgot existed. By lunchtime, I’m digging through threads like it’s an archaeological site, just to figure

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