Screenshot: TikTok / Gizmodo Congressman Jeff Jackson’s latest TikTok video starts simply: “I apologize.” Last week, the House of Representatives passed a bill that could ultimately ban TikTok from the US. For many, it turned Jackson into enemy number one. The North Carolina Democrat spent the last year amassing 2.3 million followers on TikTok, leveraging … Read more
A new patch hit Helldivers 2 on March 6 that unfortunately didn’t go over well with the game’s community. In Discord servers and Reddit posts, folks argued with Arrowhead Game Studios staff over the changes that were made to the third-person live-service shooter and the comments some developers gave back to the criticism they were … Read more
Optimism is rising over the U.S. initial public offering market after a couple of years of significant decline. There were 128 U.S. initial public offerings in 2023, with a cash value of $22.6 billion, according to Ernst & Young. Although it was a slow year for IPOs compared with 2021, it was a step up … Read more
Surprise! Ultrawings 2, a mission-based flight sim previously available on PC and Meta Quest, is out now on PlayStation 5 and PSVR2. Fans who were excited to play the sequel on Sony’s console had no idea the game was launching today. And it turns out, the developers didn’t know either and are now trying to … Read more
Parenting is often a fraught task, in between the moments of love and joy. Raising a child while grieving is a particularly heavy endeavor, a journey with no clear or simple end, as one woman has discovered. A mom wondered if she should let her daughter have a relationship with her permanently injured dad. She … Read more
If you were hoping for new ways to bounce about Bethesda’s jumbo-sized galaxy in space RPG Starfield, you might be in luck. In a recent Reddit response on Reddit t, the developer appears to have teased an upcoming feature update that will add “new ways of traveling” and that fans should expect regular updates moving … Read more
The beauty of the internet is that every once in a while, someone asks a totally innocuous question and people chip in with answers that can potentially change the reader’s life. This time, someone on Reddit asked about apps that are so good that it’s hard to believe they’re free. The responses highlighted lots of great … Read more
Social media platform Reddit announced on Monday that it will start paying content creators on the platform. The company announced changes to its Gold currency and launched the new Contributor Program which will allow eligible users to earn money for their content. Informing about the new update via blogpost, Reddit wrote, “Starting today, we’re introducing … Read more
A mom wrote into the r/parenting subreddit to offer a heartfelt and emotional update on how her mental health has changed throughout her first year of parenting. She acknowledged that she suffered from postpartum depression and anxiety, and noted that as a result, “when my boy was born, I didn’t want to be his mom.” … Read more
A mom revealed that she was shamed for explaining how she chose to raise her children. Posting to the subreddit “r/parenting” — an online forum where people can get advice on the ups and downs of raising children — a mother of young children had been talking to someone in her life about the ways that … Read more