2021 year in review – IT under attack

Donald Trump says he is considering pardoning whistleblower Edward Snowden, Ontario makes a bid for Silicon Valley talent, and Fortnite throws a counterpunch at Apple.

Bill Gates sits down for a one-on-one with Bloomberg, it turns out Alexa’s web services had bugs…

A judge orders Uber and Lyft drivers to be reclassified as employees, British Court of Appeal rules that British police violated human rights using facial recognition technology, and Canadians are not yet convinced to return to the workplace. 

Amazon wants to convert Sears and JCPenney to fulfillment centers, Google Home may be listening to just about everything, and a highschool student builds an app that records your interaction with police and shares it to Instagram and Facebook right away.

A massive hack hits Reddit, Facebook doubles down on its work from home policy, and Zoom’s old news – it’s all about holograms now.

Google discontinues its flagship smartphones, residents in eastern Canada were hit with a cell service outage yesterday, scientists renamed 27 human genes to appease Excel.

We unpack a bunch of news from Samsung’s virtual event, Twitter braces for a mega fine, and Instagram is doing its best to keep you off of TikTok.

The iMac gets new updates, there are more developments on the fiasco surrounding TikTok, and Google’s pouring out new pixels.

Microsoft confirms its interest to buy TikTok, Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos added billions to their bank accounts during the height of the pandemic, and NASA astronauts return home after a critical SpaceX mission.

CEOs of four major tech companies stood before U.S. attorney generals from 48 states on Wednesday for…

Major tech companies appear before the U.S. Congress in a monumental antitrust hearing, Ontario based smart glasses…

India bans more Chinese apps, e-commerce has doubled during the pandemic, and Bill Gates weighs in on the coronavirus.

Google employees will work from home until summer 2021, Jeff Bezos will face off against Congress this week, and the downsides to working from home are discussed online.

Apple shifts some of its manufacturing to India, a new mod allows players to run Windows 95 PC inside Minecraft, and multinational conglomerate Siemens is doubling down on its work from home policies.

AT&T delivers a scare by telling customers they’ll need to upgrade their phone to maintain service, a new survey states the obvious about social media, and Elon Musk issues another warning about artificial intelligence.