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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 […]

The European Commission is preparing to fine Google a sum running into the high hundreds of millions of euros for breaching the Digital Markets Act, according to a Handelsblatt report on Monday, in what would be the largest penalty ever issued under the bloc’s new tech competition regime. The Commission’s case rests on the long-running complaint that […]

• 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.

SpaceX launched the 12th test flight of its Starship rocket on Friday evening from Starbase, Texas, marking the debut of the upgraded Version 3 vehicle. The flight successfully deployed 20 mock Starlink satellites and beamed live video from space, but the Super Heavy booster was destroyed after separation, failing to achieve a controlled descent. The […]

Waymo suspended robotaxi service across five US cities on 21 May after a software patch it pushed to its entire 3,791-vehicle fleet less than two weeks earlier failed to prevent another autonomous vehicle from driving into standing water. An unoccupied Waymo robotaxi got stuck on a flooded street in Midtown Atlanta on Wednesday evening during […]

Google's AI Overviews are running into an interesting problem right now.