TikTok has gone dark in the US now that the ban-or-divest law passed last year is taking effect. The app has been removed from both Apple and Googles app stores, its unavailable on the web, and users who open the app are blocked from viewing videos.The shutdown has the astonishing effect of removing a social network used by 170 million people in the US, according to TikToks own numbers. While other social media platforms have experienced outages, even prolonged ones, no network as big as TikTok has simply shut down without any indication of if or when it will come back online.This is despite the Biden administration saying its passing enforcement responsibilitieson to the Trump administrationand calling TikToks threat to go offlinea stunt. TikTok has insisted that without clearer assurances, it has to close up shop in the US. Inside TikTok, an email to employees said that President Trump has indicated that he will work with us on a solution to reinstate TikTok once he takes office on January 20th and that teams are working tirelessly to bring our app back to the U.S. as soon as possible.A warning message started appearing in TikToks app around 9PM ET on Saturday evening, telling users of the pending shutdown:We regret that a US law banning TikTok will take effect on January 19th and force us to make our services temporarily unavailable. Were working to restore our service in the US as soon as possible, and we appreciate your support. Please stay tuned.The app began blocking users around 10:30PM ET. A message now appears saying the app isnt available right now but that the company expects a resolution under President-elect Trump:Sorry, TikTok isnt available right nowA law banning TikTok has been enacted in the U.S. Unfortunately, that means you cant use TikTok for now.We are fortunate that President Trump has indicated that he will work with us on a solution to reinstate TikTok once he takes office. Please stay tuned!Several other apps owned by TikToks parent company, ByteDance, have also been taken offline, including the video editor CapCut and the social platform Lemon8.TikTok now displays a warning when opened and wont allow users to watch videos. Screenshot: The VergeThe ban-or-divest law, which goes into effect on Sunday, effectively bans TikTok unless ByteDance sells much of its stake in the company. But ByteDance has shown little sign of being willing to sell, even as the deadline rapidly approached. Instead, TikTok sued the US over the law, ultimately losing in a Supreme Court case this past week.TikToks new strategy appears to be relentlessly pandering to Trump, who despite initially calling for the TikTok ban has recently indicated that he wants to find a way to keep it around. Earlier today, he floated a 90-day extension of ByteDances deadline to sell.Developing...

Go on, tell us!Nintendo finally lifted the lid on the Switch 2 earlier this week and while most of the discussion is about the new hardware, there has also been plenty of conversation about the new Mario Kart game.Perhaps the biggest talking point at the moment about this new entry is the fact there have been 24 spaces spotted on the starting grid. Now, if you've played Mario Kart over the years, you should already know how the race size has jumped from eight to 12 players, so this seems to be another leap.Read the full article on nintendolife.com

TikTok has gone dark in the U.S., the result of a federal law that bans the popular social media app for millions of Americans at least for now.TikTok users began receiving a message about the ban around 10:30 p.m. Eastern. As of Saturday evening, the app was also no longer available in the Apple app store.Sorry, TikTok isnt available right now, the message reads. A law banning TikTok has been enacted in the U.S. Unfortunately, that means you cant use TikTok for now.This story is developing

Marvel fans have had to wait a long time for Daredevil: Born Again, but they wont have to wait nearly as long for its second season. Per ComicBook.com, Matt Murdock actor Charlie Cox revealed at this years FAN EXPO San Francisco that he already knows when he will start shooting new episodes of the forthcoming Disney+ series, and its sooner than fans may have expected.Its been so many years since we released any Daredevil content. Im really excited about it, Cox said. By the time we release [Born Again] on March 4, well already be shooting season 2. So its just a gift that keeps on giving, really. The actors comment comes less than a week after Marvel unveiled the first official trailer for Daredevil: Born Again.Recommended VideosCoxs announcement is not only a surprise, but also as an encouraging indicator of Marvels confidence in Daredevil: Born Again. The studios production schedule suggests that it is happy enough with Daredevil: Born Again to start shooting its second batch of episodes before it has even been able to gauge fans reactions to the shows first season. Thats exciting, especially because of the positive change of pace it represents for a series that has had to take a long, winding road to reach this point.Marvel Television's Daredevil: Born Again | Official Trailer | Disney+When Daredevil: Born Again was originally announced in 2022, it was said to be an 18-episode, loose continuation of Netflixs Daredevil. Filming began nearly a year later in 2023, but production was stopped and delayed by the years WGA and SAG-AFTRA labor strikes. In September 2023, Marvel then decided to overhaul Born Again, replacing its initial writing and directing teams and changing the series tone and structure and strengthening ties to its beloved Netflix predecessor. All of this means that Marvel fans have been waiting nearly three full years for Daredevil: Born Again, and arguably even longer than that, if you count the four years between Daredevils 2018 cancellation on Netflix and its successors original 2022 announcement.Please enable Javascript to view this contentThe past seven or so years have been long and sometimes rocky for Daredevil fans, but their long wait for Born Again is nearly over. In case that wasnt enough, it doesnt sound like theyll have to worry now about enduring too long of a gap between the series first and second seasons, either.Daredevil: Born Again season 1 premieres March 4 on Disney+.Editors Recommendations

TikTok started going dark for 170 million American users in an unprecedented display of the U.S.-China divide over technology and national security.

TikTok has turned off its app for US users.The move comes after the company lost a legal challenge to a divest-or-ban law in the Supreme Court.The shutdown may not last forever, as TikTok hopes President-elect Donald Trump will step in.TikTok shut down its app for its US users on Saturday, shortly before the January 19 deadline ordering the app to go dark.The stoppage came after the company waged a monthslong legal battle against a law that required its Chinese owner, ByteDance, to divest from its US app or effectively cease operating in the country."Sorry, TikTok isn't available right now," a message popped up on the screen starting around 10:30 p.m. Eastern Time. "A law banning TikTok has been enacted in the US. Unfortunately, that means you can't use TikTok for now. We are fortunate that President Trump has indicated that he will work with us on a solution to reinstate TikTok once he takes office. Please stay tuned!"The final blow for TikTok came on Friday when the Supreme Court ruled against the company's legal challenge. President Joe Biden's administration signaled on Friday that it would not enforce the ban. A spokesperson said that given the "sheer fact of timing, this administration recognizes that actions to implement the law simply must fall to the next Administration, which takes office on Monday."Still, a TikTok spokesperson said the same day it would need to go dark unless the Biden administration stepped in and offered assurances to its "most critical service providers" that the law would not be enforced.The White House said Saturday that TikTok's threat to go dark was a "stunt."While TikTok has shut its doors to its 170 million US users, the app will continue to operate elsewhere. The company said in 2021 that it had over 1 billion users globally.Shortly after the Supreme Court ruling, the app's creators and users took to TikTok to mourn the loss and reflect on the end of an era."Losing the majority of my audience is a difficult reality to face, and while I'm doing everything I can to prepare, it's hard not to feel like I'm starting over," Sofia Bella, a TikTok creator with 4.8 million followers, told Business Insider.TikTok's creators and business partners have had weeks to contemplate the prospect of a January 19 app shutdown. Many have crafted plans for transitioning off TikTok if the app disappeared forever, beginning with downloading all their videos.Some influencer marketers put contingency plans in place to assure brands that creators would post sponsored content on other apps like Instagram if TikTok goes dark. TikTok Shop merchants and their partners began easing off the app in recent days, with some halting US warehouse shipments or pausing distributing free samples to TikTok creators. And marketers put together plans to shift spend to other platforms like Facebook, Instagram reels, and YouTube shorts.Yet, even as users have spent daysmemorializing the app, posting nostalgic video round-ups, and begging fans to follow them on other platforms, it seems possible that TikTok could rise again.While TikTok lost all of its legal challenges to the divest-or-ban law, it's now hoping that President-elect Donald Trump can find a political solution to keep its app around.Trump told NBC on Saturday that he would "most likely" grant TikTok a 90-day extension to find a non-Chinese buyer for the platform."I think that would be, certainly, an option that we look at. The 90-day extension is something that will be most likely done, because it's appropriate. You know, it's appropriate. We have to look at it carefully. It's a very big situation," Trump said, according to the outlet."If I decide to do that, I'll probably announce it on Monday," he added.TikTok's CEO Shou Chew thanked the incoming president in a video on Friday for the "opportunity to work with us to find a solution that keeps TikTok available in the United States."Trump's options to rescue TikTok from the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act are limited, legal experts previously told Business Insider. The simplest option may be to help try to split off TikTok's US entity from the rest of the world, something TikTok's lawyer, Noel Francisco, told the Supreme Court would be "extraordinarily difficult" over any timeline.Trump wrote in a social media post on Friday that he would make a decision on the app soon after reviewing the situation.

Lucky Cookies Bakery / Studio NORSave this picture! Songkai LiuRetail, Retail InteriorsBeijing, ChinaArchitects: Studio NORAreaArea of this architecture projectArea:37 mYearCompletion year of this architecture project Year: 2022 PhotographsPhotographs:Songkai LiuManufacturersBrands with products used in this architecture project Manufacturers: Tikkurila More SpecsLess SpecsSave this picture!Text description provided by the architects. The Lucky Cookies is a bakery specializes in traditional Chinese pastries. Located on the first floor of the famous Beijing Longfu Building, the site is a north-facing street shop with an area of only 37. While the floor height reaches 5.7m, the main depth of the site is just less than 3m. The site's nearly 1:2 bottom-to-height ratio and its full-height glass curtain wall faade compress the store into a "display window": the entire interior space is visible at a single glance. Save this picture!Save this picture!Since the site's only entrance opens towards the interior corridor of the Longfu Building, and the pastry display and cashier has to be arranged next to this entrance, the main space facing the street therefore could only be occupied by the baking kitchen, which occupies 3/4 area of the entire store as required by the design brief. Thus, the most important street-facing storefront has to display a kitchen scene rather than pastries, and the already shallow depth of the store will appear to be even more cramped when filled with kitchen equipment, making it challenging to spatially attract pedestrians to enter the bakery.Save this picture!Save this picture!In response to the above limitations, we decided to use both the interior corridor seating area and exterior seating area offered by the landlord to find a solution. By visually connecting the two seating spaces with the store interior, the sense of spatial scale is expanded and the site's actual climate border is weakened. We also took advantage of the "display window" character of the site to design a presentable baking kitchen, turning a usually back-of-house space into the very shopfront to "live broadcast" the pastry-making process to the street.Save this picture!Save this picture!We raised the interior finished floor to be a 150mm tall travertine platform, which extends to cover the interior corridor seating area. As the original curtain wall faade cannot be modified, we simply added to the exterior seating area a travertine platform whose finished level is at the same height of the interior platform, concealing the bottom frame of the curtain wall underneath, and wrapped the rest of the curtain wall frame with stainless-steel mirror to minimize the presence of the "display window" boundary, making the interior floor appear to extend directly to the outdoors.Save this picture!Save this picture!To further enhance the merging effect of the interior and exterior, we designed a series of isomorphic furniture the "rocks" - to facilitate all functions needed in the bakery - equipment sheds, prep tables, cashier counter, display case, bench, lightbox sign, bamboo pond, etc. Scattered around the bakery like "rocks" growing from the platform, they blur the boundary of the site with their identical material and similar form, creating rich layers within the limited depth, and allowing the interior space to overflow to the exterior. Thus, the large kitchen equipment that fills the site depth all the way to the facade no longer appear crowded.Save this picture!Save this picture!We made full use of the zigzag wall that occupies the largest visual area of the "display window" and designed a 15-meter-long "light screen" to fully catch pedestrians' attention. Specially invented for this project, the 243 prefabricated modular lightboxes on the "screen" are detachable, embedded in the stainless-steel grid by magnetic connections for future easy replacement and maintenance. The front of each lightbox is an inwardly inclined surface to leave space for a little bracket displaying the "paper-cut pastries" at the bottom of each grid. The paper-cuts are made according to the silhouettes of actual pastries sold by the bakery. While the "rocks" horizontally break the site's boundary, the "light screen" vertically utilizes the site's height advantage and north-facing character, counteracts the reflection on the facade glass, and highlights the spatial layers of the "rocks" as a background further connecting the interior space to the outside.Save this picture!Project gallerySee allShow lessProject locationAddress:Langyuan Station, BeijingChinaLocation to be used only as a reference. It could indicate city/country but not exact address.About this officePublished on January 19, 2025Cite: "Lucky Cookies Bakery / Studio NOR" 18 Jan 2025. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/1025408/lucky-cookies-bakery-studio-nor&gt ISSN 0719-8884Save!ArchDaily?You've started following your first account!Did you know?You'll now receive updates based on what you follow! Personalize your stream and start following your favorite authors, offices and users.Go to my stream

Nature, Published online: 15 January 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08522-6Author Correction: Evolution of immune genes is associated with the Black Death

Studio 4C is working on a new original anime movie! The project was announced during Toei's 2025-2026 lineup press conference, because Toei (Dragon Ball, One Piece) will distribute the movie, at least in Japan.

The Nintendo Switch 2 is now officially revealed, and ... we don't really know much about it yet. It's a little bigger, it's backwards compatible, and the joy-con controllers are magnetic, but aside from those scant few details, there's not much to get excited for yet, apart from a more detailed Switch 2 Direct set for April. Maybe that's why Nintendo is giving folks the opportunity to try the new Switch for themselves around the same time.Announced on the company's website alongside the new console, the "Nintendo Switch 2 Experience" will give attendees the opportunity to go hands-on with Nintendo's upcoming console before release, which is set for some time this year.The demos will kick off on April 4th in New York and Paris and slowly tour around the globe, with Seoul currently being last on the list with an event set for May 31 - June 1. A few cities, like Hong Kong and Taipei, also have yet to have their Switch 2 Experience dates announced.Given that the whole point of the Switch 2 Experience is to try out the console before it releases, I suppose that this also hints that we can expect the official release date for the console to be set for sometime after June.The Switch 2 demos will be ticketed, so you'll need to register to attend, and registration will unfortunately work a bit like a lottery. Registration kicks off tomorrow, Jan. 17, at 3 PM ET and runs through Jan. 26 at 11 PM local time. Once you're registered, you'll be entered into a chance to get a ticket; on the plus side, registrations and tickets are free and registering early does not make you any more eligible.You can also register in up to groups of six, although each attendee above the age of six will need their own (free) Nintendo Account, presumably to cut down on people filing multiple registrations per person.For anyone outside the U.S. looking to travel to New York for the earliest possible look at the device, I also have some bad newsthe demos in New York, Los Angeles, and Dallas are open to U.S. residents only. Paris appears to be available to anyone, however.Registrations will open up on Nintendo's website tomorrow. Check the below to see the full schedule.New York, April 4-6Paris, April 4-6Los Angeles, April 11-13London, April 11-13Dallas, April 25-27Toronto, April 25-27Tokyo, April 26-27Milan, April 25-27Berlin, April 25-27Madrid, May 9-11Amsterdam, May 9-11Melbourne, May 10-11Seoul, May 31-June 1Hong Kong, TBATaipei, TBA