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Apple and Google have formally pushed for amendments to Bill C-22, the Canadian government’s lawful-access legislation now working its way through the House of Commons, arguing that the bill as drafted creates a potential for secret orders to compel changes to the encryption underpinning their software and devices. Both companies want judicial oversight built into […]

Foreign-branded smartphone shipments to China, a category dominated by Apple, rose 1.8% year-on-year in April to 3.59 million handsets, according to Reuters calculations based on figures published by the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, the government-run research body that tracks domestic handset shipments. The number is a meaningful deceleration. Foreign-brand shipments to China grew […]
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- Emojis are cringe.
- I also love them — in text chains, where you can accomplish a lot with a single character.
- Which is why Google adding emojis to Gmail this year is a huge deal — for me. But you should start using them, too.
I love emojis.

The Apple Watch generated an estimated $100 billion in lifetime sales and transformed the smartwatch market. Eleven years after launch, innovation has slowed and the lineup is losing momentum. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports that Apple risks falling behind in the next phase of the industry it helped create. Consumer preferences are shifting away from screen-heavy […]