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Descrease article font size Increase article font size Apple says it has fixed a bug in its iPhone dictation system that momentarily suggested the word “Trump” when it picked up a command with an “R” sound — including when the word “racist” was said aloud. The tech giant responded to the software error after numerous … Read more
By Staff The Associated Press Posted February 24, 2025 2:58 pm Updated February 24, 2025 3:00 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Apple announced Monday that it plans to invest more than US$500 billion in the United States over the next four years, including plans to hire 20,000 people … Read more
U.S. President Donald Trump has signed a memorandum to impose tariffs on countries that levy digital service taxes on U.S. technology companies, a White House official said. Another official, providing details of the order, said Trump was directing his administration to consider responsive actions like tariffs “to combat the digital service taxes (DSTs), fines, practices, … Read more
More than 80 school boards across seven provinces and one territory say they have been impacted by the PowerSchool data breach. The numbers give further insight into the developing scope of the breach that has impacted school boards in Canada, the U.S. and globally after the company’s software — used by schools to store student … Read more
As the threat of a TikTok ban looms, U.S. TikTok users are flocking to the Chinese social media app Xiaohongshu – making it the top downloaded app in the U.S. Some of the “TikTok refugees,” as they call themselves, say the TikTok alternative, a Chinese app, is being chosen in protest of the TikTok ban. … Read more
The Biden administration is proposing a new framework for the exporting of the advanced computer chips used to develop artificial intelligence, an attempt to balance national security concerns about the technology with the economic interests of producers and other countries. But the framework proposed Monday also raised concerns of chip industry executives who say the … Read more
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has denied he sexually abused his sister, Ann Altman, after she filed a lawsuit claiming that she was the victim of regular sexual abuse at the hands of her brother for almost a decade. The lawsuit, filed in a U.S. District Court in Missouri, alleges the abuse started in 1997 when … Read more
Google failed to persuade a federal judge to dismiss a privacy class action claiming it collected personal data from people’s cellphones after they switched off a button to stop the tracking, paving the way for a possible August trial. Chief Judge Richard Seeborg of the federal court in San Francisco rejected arguments that the search … Read more
TikTok’s challenge of U.S. forced ban law to be heard by Supreme Court – National | Globalnews.ca Descrease article font size Increase article font size The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday said it will hear arguments next month over the constitutionality of the federal law that could ban TikTok in the United States if its … Read more
Google gets delay in antitrust case order to open up app store – National | Globalnews.ca A federal judge on Friday delayed an order requiring Google to open up its Android app store to more competition until an appeals court decides whether to block the shake-up because of legal questions surrounding a jury’s verdict that … Read more