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If you woke up Wednesday to a notification on your iPhone saying "Updated Time Zone Information Available," you're not alone and there's nothing wrong with your phone. The notification likely also showed up on your Mac, iPad and Apple TV as well. Apple pushed out an over-the-air time zone update overnight for Canadian users. The...

Google showed up to Parliament Hill this week with a blunt message for the Liberal government. Bill C-22 isn't a modernization of Canadian law enforcement. It's a surveillance regime that goes further than anything in the democratic world, and nobody at Google was even consulted before it was written. Jeanette Patell, Google's director of government...

A senior Apple executive walked into a federal committee hearing this week and said the quiet part out loud. If Bill C-22 passes, companies like Apple won't be able to tell you what the government is making them do to your phone. Erik Neuenschwander has been at Apple for 19 years. He worked on the...

WhatsApp's 26.20.10.72 beta includes the ability to share documents with Meta AI on iOS.

The first episode of After the Whistle with Brendan Hunt and Rebecca Lowe arrives on June 7.

The federal government is defending its controversial surveillance bill after a wave of pushback from tech companies, legal experts, and public fact-checkers. It's now making news headlines in the U.S. as well. In an emailed statement to Bloomberg, the federal government reiterated it "categorically rejects claims that Bill C-22 would enable the surveillance of Canadians...

Dropbox co-founder Drew Houston is stepping down as CEO, handing operational control to Ashraf Alkarmi to guide the company's next AI product era.

Spotify has launched a trial of narrated magazine articles, bringing audio versions of stories from WIRED, Vogue, and Rolling Stone to the app.

Sony announces the June PlayStation Plus monthly games, bringing Grounded, Warhammer 40,000: Darktide, and Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2 to subscribers.

Google Canada has launched a new online AI Professional Certificate to help workers master data analysis, research, and coding tools in under 10 hours.

Interac just announced a deal with identity security company Incode Technologies to beef up its Interac Verified suite with some serious anti-fraud tools, and Canadian businesses are the main beneficiary. The big addition is passive liveness detection, validated to iBeta Level 3 on both iOS and Android. San Francisco-based Incode is the first company to...

KeySmart, the brand behind a bunch of popular everyday carry gear, just dropped the SmartCard Pro, a wallet tracker that's making a pretty strong case for itself at $49.99 USD ($71 CAD). The big headline here is the battery as it runs on a 350mAh wireless-charged battery that KeySmart claims lasts up to 24 months...