Content creators working to find other platforms for their videos amid the TikTok ban may want to take a breather. There’s a chance that TikTok won’t go dark this weekend after all.
According to a report from NBC News, President Joe Biden’s administration is exploring ways to keep TikTok in the U.S. despite the ban being scheduled to go into effect on Sunday. In other words, it’s trying to delay the ban on the video-sharing app provided that the Supreme Court doesn’t issue a ruling on the law before the holiday weekend is over.
“Americans shouldn’t expect to see TikTok suddenly banned on Sunday,” one of the administration officials said.
In April 2024, President Biden signed the law forcing ByteDance to sell TikTok to a U.S.-based company for a face a ban in the country over national security concerns stemming from the fact that TikTok’s parent company is based in China, where the app is ironically banned. The law also allowed the president to enact a 90-day extension of the ban’s deadline if ByteDance has made any progress on the sale.
Now that the deadline is drawing near, the law calling for the sale or ban of TikTok has faced growing backlash from over 170 million of the platform’s users — more than half of the U.S. population — to the point that Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) and a few other senators proposed a bill that would give ByteDance 270 more days to divest TikTok to someone within the U.S. to avoid the ban on Monday. When Markey introduced the bill to the Senate floor, he said that, while TikTok has its fair share of problems, banning the platform “would impose serious consequences on millions of Americans who depend on the app for social connections and their economic livelihood. We cannot allow that to happen.”
Meanwhile, ByteDance is weighing options to either shut down U.S.-based TikTok servers on Sunday or keep the app going beyond January 19 without any future updates or bug fixes. In the meantime, TikTok users have migrated to RedNote (or Xiaohongshu), a lifestyle platform that is also based in China, out of protest, and has become the most downloaded app on the iOS App Store since Tuesday. RedNote may face a ban in the U.S. as well due to privacy concerns.
There’s a lot of uncertainty surrounding the future of TikTok in the U.S. because of the looming ban. We don’t know whether the app will actually be saved from the ban. Regardless of what happens, make sure you download your data from TikTok so you can preserve your videos and spread them on other platforms.
Are you tired of paying for streaming services you never watch just to get a phone plan feature you actually want? T-Mobile has good news for you! The carrier is rolling out new plans, called T-Mix, in early November to replace its old Experience lineup with a build-your-own perks system called Picks.
The benefits you choose vary from streaming and gaming to food delivery, AI, satellite service, and phone discounts. But if you are satisfied with your existing plan, you can keep it.
Merely days after the iPhone Duo hit the shelves, images of broken screens on the phone started popping up across social media. Until now, it’s been unclear what’s causing the line of defective pixels that appears vertically along the crease, as well as horizontally, on the phone’s inner display.
Apple has finally acknowledged the issue, which has shown up on iPhone Duo units owned by customers as well as demo units in stores. In a statement shared with Bloomberg, Apple says that not all iPhone Duo units are affected and that those that are tend to show the display fault early on. The company added that users who experience problems with their iPhone Duo display should contact AppleCare for a replacement.
Not long ago, Apple treated independent repair like an act of outright hostility. The Cupertino giant locked down parts with serial-number pairing, while repair tools remained firmly out of reach of anyone outside its authorized repair network. More importantly, the company waged a legal and lobbying battle against right-to-repair legislation.
I've covered enough of these fights over the years to know what a shift looks like. That's why what happened in October 2026 genuinely caught me off guard. The day the iPhone Duo went on sale, what may be the most mechanically complex iPhone to date, Apple pulled off a surprising about-face. It published teardown-style repair manuals for a handful of major components.