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Google has begun rolling out the first beta of Android 17, and with it comes a suite of visual and functional changes to the Pixel Launcher that signal a deeper commitment to Material You design principles and a more polished, cohesive user experience. While Android betas have historically been cautious affairs — incremental refinements rather than sweeping redesigns — the changes surfacing in Android 17 Beta 1 suggest Google is willing to rethink core elements of how users interact with their home screens, app drawers, and system-level interfaces on Pixel devices.

For more than a decade, smartphone users have wrestled with one of the most persistently annoying aspects of touchscreen typing: placing the text cursor exactly where you want it. That tiny, flickering line between characters has been the source of countless deleted words, misplaced corrections, and quiet moments of digital rage. Now, Google appears to be engineering a solution that could fundamentally change how users interact with text on their Android devices — and it’s hiding in plain sight inside the company’s ubiquitous Gboard keyboard app.

In an era when public trust in technology companies has eroded to near-historic lows, Microsoft is marshaling an ambitious coalition of industry heavyweights to confront the credibility crisis head-on. The software giant has launched what it calls the Trusted Tech Alliance, a cross-industry initiative designed to establish new standards for transparency, security, and ethical behavior among some of the world’s most powerful technology firms. The question facing the industry now is whether a consortium led by the very companies under scrutiny can credibly serve as its own reformer.

When Michael Fiddelke officially took the reins as Target Corporation’s chief executive officer on February 1, 2025, he inherited a company at a crossroads. The Minneapolis-based retail giant had been struggling with declining comparable-store sales, a bruised brand image, and the looming specter of sweeping tariffs that threatened to upend the economics of its entire merchandise assortment. By all accounts, Fiddelke’s first weeks on the job have been anything but quiet.