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A man walks past a Walmart store in Washington, D.C. on July 15. Walmart said it was “confident” that its joint deal with Microsoft would satisfy both TikTok users and U.S. government regulators. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images
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Fortnite is releasing its new season, Chapter 2 – Season 4, on Thursday, but it will not be available on iPhones or other Apple devices because of a legal dispute between Epic Games, the maker of Fortnite, and Apple over in-app commissions. Metin Aktas/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
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Former Disney executive Kevin Mayer in 2015. On Wednesday, Mayer announced he was resigning suddenly from TikTok as the app’s chief executive amid growing pressure in Washington for the app to sell off its U.S. assets. Damian Dovarganes/AP
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A shopper walks past shelves of school supplies at a Target store in San Rafael, Calif. Preparing for both in-person and virtual learning has families budgeting for new school supplies and bigger purchases. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
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Floodwaters surround a newly constructed house for sale in Maine in 2018. Realtor.com added flood risk information to the more than 100 million listings on its site. Gregory Rec/Portland Press Herald via Getty Images
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My Trek mountain bike. Greg Rosalsky/NPR
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TikTok has filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration after the White House issued an executive order that would effectively ban the hugely popular app from operating in the United States. AP
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An appeals court has given Uber and Lyft more time to fight a judge’s order over how they classify their drivers, averting a threatened shutdown in California. Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images
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Federal prosecutors allege Uber’s former head of security organized a cover-up of a massive data breach. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
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The Google logo adorns the outside of the company’s New York City office building. The stock market is hitting records, in large part because of a handful of superstar tech stocks, including Alphabet, Google’s parent company. Drew Angerer/Getty Images
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President Trump holds a press briefing Wednesday at the White House. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
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Apple, now worth $2 trillion, first crossed the $1 trillion milestone two years ago. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
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Actors Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver in a scene from Marriage Story. The award-winning 2019 film can be watched with audio description that conveys scenes to viewers who are visually impaired. But Parasite, another popular award-winner, has not included such descriptions. Wilson Webb/Netflix
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People stand in the lobby of Amazon offices in New York in January 2019. At a time of mass work from home and many moving to spacious suburbs, Amazon is funding a large expansion of corporate real estate and jobs in New York and five other U.S. cities. Mark Lennihan/AP
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Your animals will demand your attention in Planet Zoo, just one of several simulation games that might distract you from quarantine. Frontier
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President Trump on Friday ordered that ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns TikTok, divest from the U.S. in 90 days. AP
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Joyce Lilly moves a filing cabinet as her dog Max follows, Tuesday, July 21, 2020, in the Riverdale neighborhood of The Bronx, in New York. Mark Lennihan/AP
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The fun of Fall Guys comes in watching its little jelly bean-shaped characters getting whacked around goofy obstacle courses. Mediatonic
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Tech companies are under enormous pressure from government officials to prevent their platforms from being used by foreign actors and others to disrupt the 2020 election, as occurred in 2016. Jeff Chiu/AP
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A woman named Un A leads viewers on a tour of the North Korean capital, Pyongyang, in a recent YouTube video. “Every building in Pyongyang is going through general cleaning to shake off winter dust,” she says in English. Echo of Truth/YouTube
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Some Netflix users will be able to watch shows at slower and faster speeds. It’s a helpful move for blind and deaf users, advocates say. Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images
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