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Weekly Dose of Data Clarity - 13

The Future of Data is Blank


What's Hot ⏰

The Future of News Content 💥

Lego goes NASA level 👾

Gov CA weighs in on Tik Toc 🍁



Thursday, March 15th, 2024

 

What's Hot ⏰


US House passes bill to force ByteDance to divest TikTok or face ban

"This is a critical national security issue. The Senate must take this up and pass it," No. 2 House Republican Steve Scalise said of TikTok on social media platform X. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre added later that the Biden administration also wanted to see "the Senate take swift action." (Source: reuters.com)


Trump Treasury Head Steve Mnuchin Says He’s Putting Together Group To Buy TikTok And Avoid Ban

Mnuchin also said that he believed the social media network would need to be “rebuilt” after the sale, telling CNBC “I won’t go into all the details—but the app needs to be rebuilt in the U.S., it needs to be U.S. technology.” (Source: forbes.com)


China hits out at US push to ban TikTok as Steven Mnuchin plots bid

Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said on Thursday that the US had shown a “robber’s logic” towards the app, which has 170mn users in America. “When you see other people’s good things, you must find ways to own them,” Wang said.

He Yadong, spokesperson for the commerce ministry, on Thursday called on Washington to “stop unfairly suppressing foreign companies”. (Source: ft.com)


 

GameSquare's Stream Hatchet Redefines Gaming Intelligence with New AI-Powered News Platform and Redesigned Website 💥


Eduard Montserrat, Founder and CEO at Stream Hatchet, said, "Crafting algorithms from billions of data points, our analysts assigned weights based on industry importance. Developers brought this to life, resulting in a daily dose of insights that goes beyond news, providing users with informative and digestible data in real time." (Source: accesswire.com)


 

New Lego Technic Mars Crew Exploration Rover is sci-fi but built with NASA's help 👾


"When you look this vehicle, we want to you to say, 'Okay, that can happen.' That is where we wanted to set the limit," said Rouffiange. "So after a [little] brainstorming, which I was very lucky to be part of — I mean, it's not every day that you get to talk with a NASA engineer — we came up with this concept." (Source: space.com)


 

Federal government ordered national security review of TikTok, didn't disclose it publicly 🍁

The federal Liberals ordered a national security review of popular video app TikTok in September 2023 but did not disclose it publicly.

“This is still an ongoing case. We can't comment further because of the confidentiality provisions of the Investment Canada Act,” a spokesperson for Industry Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne said. (Source: ctvnews.ca)


 

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