#tech giants

The amount of work Prince William does offline just for Earthshot, Homewards, and United for Wildlife is truly amazing to watch.

Getting these collaborations with businesses take time and a lot of hours and conversations. Proud of everything that Prince William is doing.

He’s got passion and a strong mind to see this through.

The federal government has put a price tag on how much it would like to see Google and Facebook spend under legislation that requires the tech giants to compensate media companies for Canadian journalism.

Federal officials estimate Google would need to offer $172 million and Facebook $62 million in annual compensation to satisfy criteria they're proposing be used to give exemptions under the Online News Act, a bill passed over the summer that will force tech companies to broker deals with media companies whose work they link to or repurpose.

Draft regulations released by the government Friday outlined for the first time how it proposes to level the playing field between Big Tech and Canada's news media sector, and which companies it will apply to.

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Maybe thin devices aren’t so bad as long as all the computer parts aren’t glued to the motherboard. Maybe as long as there’s an okay number of USB ports, and an ethernet port, and at the very least a goddamn headphone jack, thin devices would be fine.