TikTok made him famous. Now he’s imagining a world without it

The 5 best places to explore in the solar system—besides Mars

Sponsored by Supermicro The Download Your daily dose of what's up in emerging technology 08.17.2020 Good morning! Today: TikTok stars are starting to grapple with a future without it, and five places in the solar system that merit a closer look (beyond Mars.) Get your friends to sign up here to get The Download every day. TikTok made him famous. Now he’s imagining a world without it   Ryan Beard was sitting in front of his keyboard, taking song requests on a live stream on the last Friday of July, when he saw a message from a viewer pop up in the chat: “tik tok is officially getting banned 😿” Beard, 22, has more than 1.8 million followers on TikTok. He spent a year growing that following, throwing everything he had into a career as an online creator with the app as his anchor. The Twitch thing was new, his audience there much smaller. Now—while dozens of people looked on—he was trying to process the possibility that he could lose it all. “Is it really?” he said, continuing to stream from his family home in Kansas City, Kansas. “No. Please tell me it’s not true.” He turned to his computer and searched for news coverage, finding a headline: “'Trump says he will ban TikTok from the US.' Great. GREAT.” He leaned back in his chair and put his head in his hands. “Fuck Donald Trump. Oh my God.” President Trump’s proclamation that he was about to ban TikTok turned out to not be quite true. But the company’s future in the US is still uncertain: last week Trump issued executive orders setting a 45-day deadline, after which he said the US government would ban transactions with two Chinese companies unless their US operations were sold: TikTok parent company ByteDance and Tencent, the parent company of WeChat. It created turmoil and set a timer on TikTok’s ongoing efforts to find a buyer for its American operations. That timer is also running for creators like Beard, whose fame is mainly limited to TikTok. Whether the app goes or stays, this moment is forcing creators like him toward a realization that making, or even consuming, things on the internet means depending on platforms that could change drastically in an instant. Read the full story.  —Abby Ohlheiser The 5 best places to explore in the solar system—besides Mars With three missions to Mars this summer, we will soon be getting our fill of the Red Planet. There are certainly good reasons to be excited: Mars is the only extraterrestrial world besides the moon that human beings could conceivably reach within a generation. If we simply dream about visiting other worlds, Mars is realistic. It also makes sense from a scientific perspective. Suniti Karunatillake, a planetary scientist at Louisiana State University, argues that it is the only other rocky planet in the solar system that has evidence for most of the key geological processes we find on Earth today, such as volcanoes, sedimentary rock formations, and polar ice caps made of water. However, it might be time to reassess whether our obsession is causing us to ignore the rest of the solar system. Venus, Ceres, Europa, Titan, and Pluto all deserve closer study. Here’s the case for deeper investigation of each of them in turn. —Neel V. Patel We can still have nice things A place for comfort, fun and distraction in these weird times. (Got any ideas? Drop me a line or tweet 'em at me.)   + This cat cartoon made me laugh (thanks for sending, Dad).   + Dolphins drafted themselves in as coastguards in Dorset, England.   + Chefs wax lyrical about the best dishes they’ve cooked in lockdown.   + Cat vs elk (my money’s on the cat).   + A “lucky” phone number sold for $300,000 at an auction in China. Sponsor Message Better. Faster. Greener. Storage Supermicro offers the industry’s most comprehensive selection of leading-edge storage systems optimized for new 2nd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors. Whether you are seeking traditional storage servers, high-density 60-bay and 90-bay systems, multi-node compute-optimized platforms, or all-flash arrays, Supermicro has the best selection. 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With extensive operations and on-site inventory in Silicon Valley, Taiwan, and the Netherlands, Supermicro supports fast lead times to address your upside demand. Learn more here. The top ten must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 How we could beat back the coronavirus in the US within weeks Testing rates are falling. Here’s how we could test everyone, every day. (The Atlantic)   + Trump is promoting completely unproven covid-19 cures. Again. (Axios)   + The case for a coronavirus vaccine bond. (New Yorker $) 2 There is a crisis of face recognition and policing in the US The deeply flawed, unregulated technology is in wide use, mostly without our knowledge. (TR) 3 Facebook’s algorithm “actively promotes” Holocaust denial There truly is no bottom of the barrel with this company. (The Guardian)   + Facebook gives Indian politicians advocating violence towards Muslims a free pass. (WSJ $) 4 A grading algorithm downgraded exam results for thousands of UK students Nearly 40% of final-year school students received a worse result than expected thanks to a new grading algorithm. (Wired $)   + The furor shows why algorithms are never neutral. (New Statesman)   + The exams regulator had ample warning of the flaws with its system. (The Guardian) 5 Trump is giving TikTok more time to sell up in the US A new executive order gives the company three months to find a buyer. (CNBC)   + Trump’s stance on TikTok and China has been incoherent throughout. (New Yorker $) 6 Greenland’s ice may have shrunk beyond the point of no return Governments urgently need to prepare for sea levels to rise. (Reuters)   + Death Valley hit a world-record 130 degrees yesterday. (WP $) 7 How Reddit is helping people process parental abuse Many of them are simply seeking validation of the unhealthiness of their experiences. (New Statesman) 8 How remote work is reshaping Silicon Valley Bay Area tech companies have started an exodus. (WSJ) 9 The moon is drifting away from us 🌕 Honestly, can you blame it? (NYT $) 10 Ships are taking people on cruises to nowhere 🛳️ Welcome aboard the voyage of the damned. (Wired UK) Registration is open for CyberSecure, our inaugural event on the business of cyber risk. This two-day event for executives includes sessions on how to prevent and respond to ransomware, stand up to nation-state hackers, and build a cyber-resilient organization. Purchase your ticket today. Take a stand “Right after I posted it, I thought, wait a second, am I going to be judged for doing this?” —Journalist Catharine Jones sums up a dilemma for holiday-goers this summer to the New York Times. Top image credit: Ms Tech Please send cartoons to hi@technologyreview.com. Follow me on Twitter at @charlottejee. Thanks for reading! —Charlotte Was this newsletter forwarded to you, and you'd like to see more? 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