Caroline J. Simard at the annual “All Access” conference ...
Many successful productions or co-productions have come out of Manitoba in recent years, including Polar Bear Town, Vet to Go, Taken, Chacun sa route, Au Pay...

CRTC and Japanese Agency Join Forces to Fight Spam
This partnership will support close cooperation and a coordinated approach in the enforcement of spam laws in both jurisdictions to limit the amount of unwan...

Canadians invited to fill out a survey on WHY they watch ...
The CRTC today launched a survey to better understand why Canadians are consuming content in different ways. This survey is part of the CRTC’s consultation o...

Y Combinator issues a request for geo-engineering startup...
Y Combinator, the wildly successful San Francisco-based startup accelerator, is issuing a request for startups that will focus on different kinds of geo-engi...

Futrli raises a Series A to hone its decision-making plat...
Futrli, a cloud-based business decision-making platform aimed at small businesses, has raised a £4m Series A from e.ventures, Notion Capital and firstminute ...

Lyft buys an AR company to bolster its self-driving car e...
Lyft is ramping up it self-driving car strategy on two fronts. To start, the ridesharing mainstay has acquired Blue Vision Labs, a UK-based augmented reality...

GoEuro raises $150 million for its travel aggregator
Berlin-based startup GoEuro just raised a new $150 million funding round from Kinnevik and Temasek, with Hillhouse Capital also participating. According to C...

Josh Kushner’s Thrive Capital brings in $1B
Thrive Capital has announced the close of its largest fund to date.

Twitter bans 18 more InfoWars-related accounts
Twitter banned 18 more Twitter accounts related to Alex Jones and his InfoWars media outlet on Monday. The accounts were sharing content from the organizatio...

Power Ledger launches token for retail investors to back ...
Back in May Power Ledger, the Australian-born startup which allows consumers to buy and sell renewable energy directly between one another using a blockchain...

In its first cyberoperation against Russian trolls, U.S. ...
Russia has been blamed for shutting down power grids, hacking into critical systems, and more recently launching a massive misinformation campaign aimed at m...

iPharmacy Roman fights stigmas with premature ejaculation...
There’s a war brewing to become the cloud pharmacy for men’s health. Roman, which launched last year offering erectile dysfunctional medication a...

More Elon Musk Video Game Analogies
Elon Musk is at it again! You would hope that having more money than God would give one the peace of mind to not be dumb in the news quite so often, but [...

Google Play will upgrade your HD movies to 4K for free
If you purchased a movie in SD or HD from Google Play in the past, make sure to fire up the Movies & TV app as soon as you can. Google will tell you ...

Baidu develops its own take on real-time translation
Google isn't the only big game in town when it comes to real-time translations. Chinese search giant Baidu has developed its own system, STACL (Simultan...

Most Ridiculous Knock-Off Costumes Trending on Twitter
Halloween is a good excuse to dress up in a memorable costume. Whether you prefer to be a creature, character, or inanimate object, there’s a knock-off...

US targets individual Russians in fight against election ...
The US isn't limited to fighting election interference campaigns on its own soil. The New York Times has learned that Cyber Command is conducting the co...

‘Himalayan Viagra’ Under Threat From Climate Change, Rese...
A rare caterpillar fungus, worth three times more than gold by weight, is at risk of vanishing due to the effects of climate change and overharvesting, a new...

Amazon pitched ICE on its facial recognition technology
Amazon has faced pushback, both internally and externally, for selling its Rekognition facial recognition technology to law enforcement. It's a move the...

Ariana Grande just shared a sweet video of Mac Miller, an...
Ariana Grande shared a touching video of ex-boyfriend Mac Miller on her Instagram story one week after splitting with Pete Davidson. In the video, the rapper...

This piranha-like fish tore at flesh in the Jurassic era ...
Like piranhas, Piranhamesodon pinnatomus found uses for its razor-sharp teeth.

The 11 most useful features in iOS 12 (AAPL)
iOS 12 is here. Apple announced the newest version of its mobile operating system at its Worldwide Developers Conference in June, and launched the update to ...

Walmart offers free two-day shipping for hundreds of thir...
It's that time of the year again when retailers wave perks and promos in your face to earn your business. Walmart is hoping to lure you away from Amazon...

McDonald's quietly killed its best deal as fast-food chai...
McDonald's cut the Happy Meal from its $1 $2 $3 menu. Previously, the $3 Happy Meal was one of the best deals you could get at McDonald's, representing...

Spirit of Eggstasy: Rolls-Royce's Fabergé egg is the pinn...
It's going to a person who collects both, which sounds like quite the life.

Naspers to increase its stake in Swiggy
Naspers is planning to increase its stake in Indian online food-delivery business Swiggy as the startup plots its third fund-raising round of the year.

iPhone XR review roundup: Worth the wait
Apple’s iPhone XR ($749+ preorder at Apple.com ) officially releases on Friday, but the first wave of reviews landed today. Those lucky enough to get an ear...

Toy Tuesday: The Craziest Over-the-Top Lego Sets
Back in the day, Lego sets used to be relatively simple affairs — a couple hundred pieces, maybe a generic minifigure or two, if you were lucky you’d g...

Megyn Kelly defends wearing blackface for Halloween, sayi...
Megyn Kelly discussed Halloween costumes on her NBC show Tuesday morning with Melissa Rivers, Jenna Bush Hager, and guest host Jacob Soboroff. Kelly asked he...

SoundCloud tracks can now be shared to Instagram Stories
Streaming service SoundCloud is making it easier for its users to share music from its service directly to Instagram . The company announced this morning a n...

OnePlus 6T Will Be Available For Purchase Before Official...
OnePlus is rumored to carry out its first carrier and retail release with the OnePlus 6T after the gadget’s launch. Now, it’s confirmed that user...

'It has not yielded a great monetization strategy': Refin...
Refinery29 is laying off 10% of its employees in video, engineering, and ad sales. The digital publisher is on track to miss its 2018 earnings by 5%, accordi...

Apple to fix iPhone XS selfie smoothing with iOS 12.1 ...
After the beauty-gate brouhaha, Apple's tweaking the Smart HDR algorithm for selfies in the forthcoming update to iOS.

Modded Google Camera APK With Night Sight Available for D...
The Google Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL had little in the way of surprises, as a slew of leaks preceding its release told us pretty much all we needed to know abou...

Firefox 63 for Desktop & Android Released with Windows 10...
Mozilla has released Firefox Quantum 63 for desktop and Android with performance improvements. For those on Windows 10, Firefox 63 enables users to match the...

Create the Product, Wild Buyers Appear: Capcom Announces ...
Capcom have announced one of the most expensive Limited Collector's Edition packages for a single game that I've ever seen; but the thing with Collector's Ed...

Steam Sale 2018: all the best games and deals
Your guide to the Steam sales: the best games, deals, and all the other info you’ll need.

Samsung’s New Windows Mixed Reality Headset Promises Bett...
Samsung has announced an improved version of the Odyssey called the Odyssey+, and it keeps the same $500 price tag. The post Samsung’s New Windows Mixe...

This camping stove turns fire into electricity, and you c...
The BioLite CampStove 2 cooks your food, boils your water and charges your phone.

Network transformation among operators 'lower than expected'
Telcos recognise the importance of network transformation to digital transformation but progress is slow.

Customer service ‘behavioral pairing’ startup Afiniti qui...
Artificial intelligence touches just about every aspect of the tech world these days, aiming to provide new ways of making old processes work better. Now, a ...

China opens world's longest sea bridge, and it's got 'yaw...
The 34-mile bridge links Hong Kong, Macau and the mainland city of Zhuhai.

Drake is now co-owner of an esports brand
Drake's commitment to gaming is going well beyond the occasional star-studded Twitch stream. As part of an investment round, the Canadian rap giant (alo...