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FILE - 14-year-old Henry, left, and Angel, 15, view social media on their phones in Sydney, Nov. 8, 2024. In Australia, a high-profile social media ban for young adults under the age of 16 will take effect at the end of 2025.

FILE - The marquee of the Egyptian Theatre is shown Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021, in Park City, Utah.

A message reading "Sorry, TikTok isn't available right now" is displayed from the TikTok app on a cell phone screen, Jan. 18, 2025, in Los Angeles.

This image released by Sony Pictures shows Keke Palmer, left, and SZA in a scene from "One of them Days."

FILE - The TikTok logo is displayed on a mobile phone in front of a computer screen displaying a TikTok home page on March 18, 2023, in Boston.

FILE - South Vietnamese forces follow children, including 9-year-old Kim Phuc, center, as they run down Route 1 near Trang Bang after an aerial napalm attack on suspected Viet Cong hiding places, June 8, 1972. FILE - Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Nick Ut, center, flanked by Kim Phuc, left, holds his Pulitzer Prize winning photo, as they wait to meet with Pope Francis during the weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at The Vatican, May 11, 2022.

SpaceX's mega rocket Starship launches for a test flight from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, Jan. 16, 2025.

FILE - Bottles freshly filled with beer move on a conveyor belt at Lakefront Brewery in Milwaukee, Jan. 14, 2019.

Health workers treat cholera patients at the Bwaila Hospital in Lilongwe, Malawi, on Jan. 11, 2023.

FILE - A man holding a phone walks past a sign of Chinese company ByteDance's app TikTok, known locally as Douyin, at the International Artificial Products Expo in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China, Oct. 18, 2019.

FILE - David Lynch appears at the Governors Awards in Los Angeles, Oct. 27, 2019.

In this screen grab taken from the SpaceX broadcast the Starship's Super Heavy Booster returns to the launch pad at Starbase near Boca Chica, Texas, on Jan. 16, 2025.

FILE - A sign identifies the Edward R. Roybal campus of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia, Sept. 30, 2014. On Thursday, the CDC said patients hospitalized for flu should be tested for bird flu within 24 hours.

A Blue Origin New Glenn rocket lifts off on its inaugural launch at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida, Jan. 16, 2025.

Police and forensic officials outside Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan's residential building after he was operated for stab injuries following a scuffle with an intruder at his home in Mumbai, Jan. 16, 2025. FILE - Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan arrives for a promotional event of his upcoming Hindi-language neo-noir film "Vikram Vedha" in Mumbai, Sept. 7, 2022.

FILE - World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus addresses a press conference on the Marburg virus outbreak at the Kigali Convention Center in Kigali, Rwanda, Oct. 20, 2024.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches carrying Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander as the primary payload and Japan-based ispace's Resilience lander as a secondary payload, from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, Jan. 15, 2025.

This August 2024 photo provided by researchers shows a mummified human from Peru's Chancay culture. This image provided by researchers shows intricate tattoo designs on a mummified human from Peru's Chancay culture in visible light and using laser-stimulated fluorescence.

FILE - This video grab made from the online Neuralink livestream shows the Neuralink disk implant held by Elon Musk during the presentation, Aug. 28, 2020. Musk said recently that a third person has received an implant from his brain-computer interface company.

FILE - An Intel chip is displayed during an event called AI Everywhere in New York, Dec. 14, 2023.

In this frame grab taken from video, Israeli journalist Moshe Nussbaum, whose speech is impaired by ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), talks in a studio in Neve Ilan, Israel, Dec. 28, 2024. (Channel 12 via AP)

Nasrieen Habib, left, and Makiya Amin pull their snow tubes on top of a hill during an outing organized by the group Habib founded to promote outdoors activities among Muslim women, at Elm Creek Park Reserve in Maple Grove, Minn., Jan. 4, 2025. Nawal Hirsi, right, goes snow tubing with her family as part of a group promoting outdoors activities by Muslim women, at Elm Creek Park Reserve in Maple Grove, Minn., on Jan. 4, 2025.

FILE - New Mexico Attorney General Raul Torrez listens to oral arguments dealing with local municipalities implementing ordinances restricting abortion, Dec. 13, 2023, in Santa Fe, NM. FILE - The New Mexico Supreme Court Building is seen Jan. 9, 2023, in Santa Fe, NM.

Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket sits on the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, Jan. 11, 2025.

FILE - Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company founder Morris Chang speaks at the new facility in Phoenix, Dec. 6, 2022.

FILE - An Afghan musician plays the harmonium in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Sept. 16, 2021. Afghan musicians and singers in Pakistan received a temporary reprieve on Jan. 10, 2025, from a court that ruled they could not immediately be deported back to Afghanistan.

FILE - Workers prepare to destroy more than 50 tons of confiscated fake medicine during a campaign to mark World Consumer Rights Day in Beijing, March 15, 2012.

FILE - A medical worker administers a dose of a vaccine against COVID-19 to an elderly resident, during a government-organized visit to a vaccination center in Zhongmin village on the outskirts of Shanghai, Dec. 21, 2022.

FILE - Lily pads rest on the surface of St. Moritz Pond, at the Blue Hills Reservation, in Quincy, Mass., Aug. 17, 2004.

FILE - Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks during the Meta Connect conference in Menlo Park, California, Sept. 25, 2024. On Tuesday, Zuckerberg announced there would be a wider range of speech on Facebook and other Meta platforms.  

FILE - Singer-songwriter Peter Yarrow, of the 1960s era musical trio Peter, Paul and Mary, performs during a memorial tribute concert for folk icon and civil rights activist Pete Seeger in New York on July 20, 2014. FILE - Folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, from left, Mary Travers, Paul Stookey and Peter Yarrow, perform at a Los Angeles benefit to aid to Cambodian refugees on Jan. 30, 1980.

FILE - A person stands in front of a Meta sign outside of the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., March 7, 2023.

Adriana Paz, from left, Edgar Ramirez, Selena Gomez, Jacques Audiard, Karla Sofia Gascon, and Zoe Saldana with the award for best motion picture - musical or comedy for "Emilia Perez" during the 82nd Golden Globes on Jan. 5, 2025, at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, Calif.

FILE - This colorized electron microscope image released March 26, 2024, shows avian influenza A H5N1 virus particles (yellow), grown in Madin-Darby Canine Kidney (MDCK) epithelial cells (blue).

FILE - People gather for a press conference about their opposition to a TikTok ban, on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 22, 2023.

FILE - The remains of a Tesla Cybertruck that burned at the entrance of Trump Tower, are inspected in Las Vegas, Nevada, Jan. 1, 2025. Data from the vehicle helped law enforcement track the driver's movements.

FILE - A supermoon rises behind an observation deck in New York City as seen from Hoboken, NJ, Nov. 15, 2024. FILE - The northern lights, or aurora borealis, are visible over Lake Washington, in Renton, Wash., May 10, 2024.

FILE - This photo provided by the city of Ashiya, Japan, shows Tomiko Itooka being celebrated on her 116th birthday at the nursing home where she lived on May 23, 2024. Itooka was the world's oldest person at her death on Dec. 29, 2024.

FILE - An iPhone screen displays a message from Siri, Oct. 29, 2019, in Washington. (VOA)

FILE - This image obtained Nov. 22, 2024, courtesy of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, shows a colorized electron micrograph of bird flu cells (in blue).

FILE - A South Sudanese girl suffering from cholera is being treated by medics in Juba Teaching Hospital in Juba, May 27, 2014. More than 1.1 million doses of oral cholera vaccine arrived in Juba, and will be dispatched next week to hot spots areas like the town of Bentiu.

FILE - Signage is seen at the headquarters of the Federal Communications Commission in Washington, Aug. 29, 2020. A U.S. appeals court ruled on Dec. 31, 2024, that the FCC did not have the legal authority to reinstate landmark net neutrality rules.

Workers uncover five extensive trackways that formed part of a “dinosaur highway,” at Dewars Farm Quarry in Oxfordshire, England, in this undated photo released Jan. 2, 2025. A newly uncovered dinosaur footprint is seen at Dewars Farm Quarry, in Oxfordshire, England, in this undated photo provided by Oxford University Museum of Natural History and the University of Birmingham on Jan. 2, 2025.

FILE - A Kunpeng 920 chip is displayed during a ceremony in Shenzhen, China, Jan. 7, 2019.

A girl takes pictures with her phone in Athens, Greece, Dec. 24, 2023.

FILE - A meteor streaks past stars during the Quadrantid meteor shower in Qingdao, Shandong province, Jan. 4, 2014, in this photo taken with a long exposure.