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TikTok doesn't have to close its offices in Canada after all. The country will allow TikTok to keep its business operational after a national security review, Minister of Industry Mélanie Joly has announced. This is a complete 180 of the country's decision back in 2024 to order TikTok to shut down its operations, citing unspecified "national security risks" posed by the company and its China-based parent ByteDance. Canadian authorities said back then that their decision was based on evidence collected by the country's security and intelligence community.
As Bloomberg notes, the order was paused shortly after Mark Carney replaced Justin Trudeau as Prime Minister in early 2025. Carney was the first Canadian PM to visit China in years and had a discussion with President Xi Jinping about tariffs. Joly said TikTok will be allowed to operate in Canada with new enhancements in data security and regulatory oversight. To start with, it will have to implement privacy-enhancing technologies to reduce the risk of unauthorized access that compromise Canadians' personal information. It will also have to add enhanced protections for minors and ensure transparency by letting an independent third party "audit and continuously verify data access controls."
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Mobile World Congress has ended. The week of new reveals included radical new designs such as Honor's Robot Phone, AI-powered comfort robots, a concept hypercar and so many gadgets.
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 Today we're tracking a collection of discounts on Amazon for a wide range of products, including monitors, iPhone and desktop accessories, and more. The majority of the deals below have been automatically applied, but some will require you to clip an on-page coupon in order to see the final sale price.
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 Apple CEO Tim Cook today shared a short promotional video on social media highlighting Apple's new role as the U.S. home of Formula One.
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