New therapies that will help insomnia to sleep
A researcher has said there is no proof to support the idea that marijuana is being used for insomnia. “There’s many patients I would like to prescribe these drugs for, but I know in order for them to get one of these medications, we’ll have to go through trials of several other drugs before the request will be considered,” he added.
Nintendo boss on Switch 2 and tariffs: we are assessing what the impact may be
Nintendo has said that it will not start pre-orders for the Nintendo Switch 2 in the US on April 9, 2025 in order to assess its potential impact on tariffs and evolving market conditions. “As we looked at the games that we had prepared and ready to launch with the hardware, we thought June was a very good timing,” it added.
Senate Intelligence Democrat says Trump’s TikTok delay is against the law
China’s ByteDance, the parent of TikTok, has said that it’s in talks with the US government regarding a potential solution for TikTok US. This comes after US President Donald Trump on Friday signed an executive order to delay the implementation of a law that will require ByteDance to comply with US regulations on the sale of TikTok.
The senator says Trump’s delay is against the law
US Senator Ed Markey has called US President Donald Trump’s extension of TikTok’s ban “illegal and forces tech companies to once again decide between risking ruined legal liability or taking TikTok offline”. Markey added that Trump should go through the Congress to pass his bill to extend the deadline. “Instead, Trump should go through Congress to extend the deadline,” Markey said.
A Microsoft employee is calling the boss of an artificial intelligence company a war profiter
Microsoft has been designated a ‘priority boycott target’ by the boycott campaign over its ties with the Israeli government, a report said. The report added that Microsoft uses its cloud platform Azure to compile information gathered through mass surveillance. “I wasn’t informed…that Microsoft would sell my work to the Israeli military and government, with the purpose of spying on and murdering journalists,” a Microsoft employee said.
Trump gives TikTok another sell-by deadline
US President Donald Trump signed an executive order last week delaying enforcement of a new law banning TikTok and other social media apps from operating in the country. However, experts said Trump’s delays did not halt TikTok’s ban, meaning it is still technically illegal for the app to operate in the US with ties to China.
The Switch 2 era comes at a steep price
Nintendo has announced that there’ll be no preorders for the Switch 2 on April 9. This comes after US President Donald Trump’s decision to impose tariffs on imported video game software and hardware. “We are delaying the launch of the Switch 2 because we want to make sure everyone has the opportunity to experience it,” a Nintendo spokesman told The Verge.
I have covered Microsoft for 25 years
Microsoft, which launched the world’s first commercial operating system with Windows 95 in October 1995, was founded by Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer in Seattle on October 24, 1966. It was later acquired by Oracle for $3 billion by Microsoft in 1994. It has since released over 200 versions of its operating system, including Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 8 and Windows Azure.
50 years ago, Microsoft was founded
Microsoft was founded in 1975, and IBM supplied software for the company’s first PC in 1980. “When Microsoft launched, it was in universities and…big companies locked in…air conditioning rooms, with multimillion-dollar computers, and they used digital technology,” Bloomberg cited Microsoft founder Melinda Gates as saying. Microsoft was also developing a variety of productivity apps throughout the 1980s.
How much will the tariffs raise prices?
US President Donald Trump has said the new tariffs on $34 billion of Chinese products are meant to raise prices and close the country’s trade deficit. This is contrary to his earlier public statements, where he had said that he “couldn’t care less”. However, experts said tariffs will likely provoke retaliatory tariffs from other countries.