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The Morning After: House votes in favor of bill that could ban TikTok


The biggest news stories this morning: The best Mario Kart racer, according to science, Apple’s next innovation: The calculator? Engadget Podcast: PlayStation 5 Pro rumors and a look back at the Playdate.

President Biden this weekend signed into law a bill that reauthorizes Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), a controversial spying program. Reviews Editor Cherlynn Low dives into new releases from Taylor Swift and Ariana Grande, and explores what music means to us when songs are consumed more like books and journal entries. Microsoft Research Asia has unveiled a new experimental AI tool called VASA-1 that can take a still image of a person — or the drawing of one — and an existing audio file to create a lifelike talking face out of them in real time.

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