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President Donald Trump said Saturday he has approved a deal in principle in which Oracle and Walmart will partner with the viral video-sharing app TikTok in the U. S., allowing the popular app to avoid a shutdown. Oracle and Walmart said in a joint statement that the global TikTok business will pay over $5 billion in new taxes to the U. S. Treasury Department, and that the companies and TikTok investors would build and provide online videos to teach kids about history, science and other subjects. We are a hundred percent confident in our ability to deliver a highly secure environment to TikTok and ensure data privacy to TikTok’s American users, and users throughout the world,” Catz said in a statement Saturday after Oracle’s role was announced. Oracle and Walmart said U. S. TikTok user data would be moved to Oracle’s cloud infrastructure.

A group of scientists suggested that there could be life on Venus, the closest planet to Earth. Investigators have found traces of phosphine in Venus’ atmosphere, which is a gas normally generated during the breakdown of organic matter. The only realistic possibility for this gas to be there is the presence of life. 450 degrees Celsius and its atmospheric pressure is 90 times that of earth.

Apple is suing Epic Games, the company that owns Fortnite, for breach of contract. Epic Games included in Fortnite its own payment method to buy V-bucks, Fortnite’s currency. That money doesn’t go through Apple Store and Google Play, who would normally keep a %. Apple vs Epic Games war

Since the 1940s, California has used prison labor to fight wildfires, with inmates risking their lives on the front lines of the blazes. This year, the state’s wildfires have already burned a record 2 million acres, killed eight people, and destroyed over 3,300 buildings – and wildfire season could still last for months. Last week, the state legislature passed a bill to give nonviolent offenders who’ve helped fight fires as inmates the opportunity to have their records expunged so they can become firefighters. The California assemblywoman who introduced the bill said, “those that have served on the fire lines deserve a second chance.