TikTok launches an ad-free subscription plan in the UK TikTok is introducing an ad-free subscription plan in the U.K. that costs £3.99 (about $5.44 USD) per month. The new offering is rolling out over the coming months and will be available to users 18 and over. Users who sign up for the plan won’t see ads on TikTok, and their data won’t be used for advertising purposes. The launch was likely...

China’s Moonshot AI raises $2B at $20B valuation as demand for open-source AI skyrockets Chinese AI companies may not be swimming in as much cash as their Western rivals, but their open-source models are still facing no shortage of interest from those who don’t mind a performance hit in exchange for cheap inference. And investors are taking notice. Moonshot AI, the Beijing-based AI lab...

From New Deductions to Bigger Refunds, Here Are 8 Major Tax Changes in 2026 The U.S. just kicked off its first tax season since President Donald Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, or OBBBA, last July. Politics aside, the law is likely to affect how much you owe the IRS, how big your refund is and more. The OBBBA extended and modified a...

Did you know that Path of Exile 2 0.5's massive Atlas passive tree has a secret shortcut that most players are completely missing? The endgame is layered with hidden mechanics-from slingshotting your progress through corruption zones to Path of Exile 2 Currency doubling boss key drops with a simple Waystone modifier. But here's the real question: are you wasting hours grinding maps you don't...

The Clicks Communicator Will Have Keyboard Layouts in Arabic, French, German, KoreanThe Clicks Communicator created a buzz after its CES reveal, with its focus on offering a communications-forward Android phone that looks like a BlackBerry, complete with a physical keyboard, prioritizing messaging and typing over everything else. It turns out the keyboard phone may have made a bigger...