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A view of what two features look like for Instagram's Teen Account, including the ability to set daily use limits and permitting parents to view with whom their teen kids are messaging. Provided by Meta hide caption

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TikTok asked a panel of federal appeal judges on Monday to overturn a law that would ban the app in the U.S. by January unless it fully divests from its Beijing-based parent company. ByteDance. Matt Slocum/AP hide caption

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Astronaut Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin Jr. is photographed by Astronaut Neil Armstrong during man's first landing on the Moon more than fifty years ago. NASA is preparing to send the first crewed mission to the moon, since the end of the Apollo program. NASA/Getty Images hide caption

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NASA prepares to head back to the moon.

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After buying Twitter in 2022, Elon Musk changed the company's name to X. Alain Jocard/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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What Musk's Twitter takeover could tell us about a possible government appointment

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Elon Musk's xAI took over this factory in Memphis, Tenn., earlier this year. This is where it's building a supercomputer to fuel artificial intelligence. Houston Cofield/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption

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Musk, AI & Memphis

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Left: Vice President Kamala Harris delivers a speech as she accepts the party's nomination to be its presidential candidate at the Democratic National Convention at the United Center on Aug. 22, 2024. Right: U.S. Republican Presidential nominee former President Donald Trump arrives to speak during a rally at Herb Brooks National Hockey Center on July 27, 2024 in St Cloud, Minnesota. Grace Widyatmadja/NPR; Stephen Maturen/Getty Images hide caption

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Polaris Dawn lifts off from Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida early Tuesday morning. The crew is set to conduct the first private spacewalk ever in a matter of days. Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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How Indiana's school cell phone ban is playing out

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Activists wearing eye masks hold posters reading "Repeated deepfake sex crimes, the state is an accomplice too," during a protest against sexually abusive deepfakes in Seoul, South Korea, on Aug. 30. Anthony Wallace/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Democrat Debbie Mucarsel-Powell is launching a text campaign on the messaging app WhatsApp to directly reach voters. Joe Raedle/Getty Images hide caption

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A student waits to walk across the stage to receive her diploma during a graduation ceremony at Bradley-Bourbonnais Community High School in Bradley, Illinois. Scott Olson/Getty Images hide caption

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Pavel Durov, CEO of Telegram, is pictured onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2015 on Sept. 21, 2015, in San Francisco. Steve Jennings/Getty Images for TechCrunch hide caption

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How to buy less stuff

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In a long exposure image, cars and trucks drive on the 405 Freeway during Los Angeles rush hour traffic in March 2022. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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California could require technology in cars to warn speeding drivers

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Political commentator and YouTuber Benny Johnson (left) speaks with Eric Trump, a son of former President Donald Trump, during the 2024 Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. Johnson made videos for Tenet Media. The Justice Department accused a company matching Tenet's description of working closely with employees of Russian state broadcaster RT to covertly spread pro-Russian narratives in the United States. Johnson says he was not aware of Tenet's ties to Russia. Daniel Slim/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Russia RT Interference

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A photo illustration of the TikTok logo next to U.S. and China flags. Researchers have uncovered more accounts tied to a Chinese influence operation known as "Spamoflauge" which includes an account on TikTok with one video that managed to get 1.5 million views before being taken down. Ezra Acayan/Getty Images hide caption

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