- Canadian woman becomes Iceland's first lady
The people of Iceland selected a new president today — a vote that also ushered in a Canadian first lady. - How nutty! Montreal dad gets squirrel to yank out daughter's tooth
- Mom of boy with Down syndrome excluded from party shares 'happy ending'
- Star Trek actor's death triggers class-action lawsuit against car manufacturer
- California blaze dubbed Erskine wildfire kills 2, destroys 150 homes
- TransCanada formally seeks NAFTA damages in Keystone XL rejection
- Duelling autopsy reports confuse findings in death of woman found at bottom of laundry chute
- 14 dead in Somali hotel attack attributed to al-Shabaab
- 'I'm filled with joy': Colombians celebrate as dream of peace comes step closer to reality
- Britain, EU at odds over timing of 'divorce' talks
- Fiery crash on Toronto highway leaves 4 dead, including 1 c
- Immigrants 'became a scapegoat' in Brexit vote, and it worked
The Leave campaign deliberately stirred up anti-immigration anxieties to win the Brexit vote, researchers say. That could spell trouble for other countries considering parting ways with the postwar order in Europe. - Brexit and your money: 5 ways it could hit Canadians
- Jason Kenney: A saviour or latest pretender to uniting Alberta conservatives?
- Tape? Yes, tape. Security experts say it's just good sense to cover your laptop's camera
- Father gets jail time, mom gets house arrest in Alberta toddler's meningitis death
- Britain's leaving the EU. Here's what happens next
- Brexit vote shocker sends global markets into tailspin
- Leave victory should send chill down EU's collective spine
- Smiles and pride as students in epilepsy classroom graduate
- Dames rule Game of Thrones this season, but what happened to the men?
- Britain stuns in vote to leave EU, puts country on uncertain c
- Your life or theirs? Scientists mull ethical dilemmas of driverless cars
Would you buy a car that would sacrifice your life in order to save the lives of 10 pedestrians? Or would you buy one that would save you, above all else? That’s the question researchers are mulling in a new report about driverless cars, released today in the journal Science. - TD Bank hit with class action suit by users of coin machines that short-changed them
- Shock, elation at British vote to leave the EU
- Parents 'arrogant and selfish' says Crown in sentencing hearing for toddler's meningitis death
- Discount travel company NewLeaf says it will start flying July 25
- Why the government keeps spoiling your online bargains: Neil Macdonald
- Liberals urged to let Canada's military take cyber battle to foes
- Trump gives the speech 'most Republicans have wanted to see forever'
- Crapshoot or sure thing? Las Vegas makes big bet on NHL expansion
- 'No bill, no break': Democrats hold sit-in, but Republicans adjourn House until July
- Justin Trudeau says his wife should 'absolutely' have resourc
- Scientists discover 1st contagious cancer that can spread between species
Contagious cancers are a scary idea to begin with, but scientists have made some startling new discoveries about them – they are likely more common in nature than originally thought, and some can even spread between species. - Travis Vader killed Alberta couple Lyle and Marie McCann in roadside robbery, Crown alleges
- Remain has the narrowest of edges in Brexit vote: polls
- Feds try to quell retirement fears, but winter is coming: Neil Macdonald
- 'She just totally chomped on it,' woman says after pieces of her ears bitten off during attack
- 'Please vaccinate your kids,' pleads mom of infant in hospital with whooping cough
- How Ottawa and the provinces made the CPP deal
- What the Canada Pension Plan boost means for the average Canadian worker
- Muslim woman punched, spat on in London, Ont. grocery store, police say
- Canadian plane lands at South Pole for perilous rescue mission in Antarctic
- Donald Trump's tough talk on terrorism backfires in polls
- Led Zeppelin's legal team asks judge to toss Stairway to Heaven lawsuit
Led Zeppelin's lawyers asked a judge Monday to throw out a case accusing the band's songwriters of ripping off a riff for Stairway to Heaven. - 'I'm so sorry,' man tells brother after thinking his 'dying I love u' text from Orlando club was a joke
- Canadian billionaire in Panama Papers gets honorary degree despite bribery case
- Students and teachers in Venezuela abandon classes in hunt for food
- 'Tiny leap forward': Gay men abstinent for a year cleared to give blood
- Finance ministers reach agreement on expanding CPP
- After oil, Norway looks to startups for economic growth
Politicians responding to the oil troubles are heeding calls for a new way forward, centered around startups. And the efforts to foster a new approach are led by an ambitious ex-business exec, the Crown Prince of Norway and a handful of contrarian entrepreneurs. Read More - The hungry consumer and the software pivot
The internet has become a lonely space, and consumers are hungry for something new. We don’t talk much anymore about new processors, video cards and faster dialup modems — at least not like we used to. The technology industry, specifically the internet, continues to become further standardized and ... - Telecoms open shop on Madison Avenue, but will brands buy?
Many companies have transformed and realigned their focus with great success. Avon transitioned from peddling books door-to-door to marketing beauty products. Wrigley started as a soap and baking soda company. IBM originally sold massive mainframe computers and calculators. Now, telecom companies a... - Governments must embrace the Information Age or risk becoming obsolete
- How Seesaw accidentally became a teacher’s pet at 1/4 of US schools
- Novelist John Sundman talks CRISPR, genetics, and logic bombs
- Seoul’s new traffic signs warn of the dangers of texting while walking
- You can help stop human trafficking with the TraffickCam app
- Latin America’s chronic inefficiency could drive more O2O commerce growth
- The dredge report: being an account of an expedition into
- Students are demanding the facts about coding bootcamps
It’s been a remarkable rise so far, but for coding bootcamps to become mainstream they must prove that the outcomes they advertise are real. In 2012 coding bootcamps began offering courses in software development and promising graduates new careers in technology. The schools, now backed by hundreds... - The app boom is not over
There’s a new wave of reporting focused on the post-app era. Recode announced “The app boom is over.” Quartz points out how most users never download any apps. Let me be very clear: The app boom is not over. There has never been a better time to be an apps developer. Read More - The last driver license holder
Say hello to Liam. He recently celebrated his first birthday. Not only is he a cutie, he is the last person to get a driver license. Impossible? Not in your lifetime? I don’t know if Liam will be the last person to get a driver license. It could be Sophia or Ethan. But one thing is certain: The las... - “Let me see your phone”
- Faraday Future says it is also making an autonomous car
- Ladar Levison finally confirms Snowden was target of Lavabit investigation
- Why a Palantir IPO might not be far off
- JBL’s Charge 3 waterproof speakers are big on battery and bass
- What UK startups make of the shocking Brexit vote
- Can the smartphone cure Zika?
- President Obama calls for diversity efforts and openness with Mark Zuckerberg at GES
Obama encouraged companies to continue hiring workers from diverse backgrounds, citing tech companies’ diversity reports as a step in the right direction. The president also discussed censorship of the internet in Egypt and said international leaders need to welcome free speech rather than attempt ... - Review: Acton’s Blink Board is a quirky board with an unpolished remote
As you can already tell, this is an electric skateboard. It’s not my first rodeo on one either, and it won’t be my last. But here’s something I learned the past few days: Acton’s budget-friendly electric skateboard has been the least fulfilling of the electric rolling planks I’ve ridden. Summed up,... - ATM skimmer caught in the wild by a real security engineer
Whoda thunk it? Tourist/cybersecurity expert Benjamin Tedesco was hanging out in Vienna when he walked up to an ATM. Because he trusts no one he decided to give the reader a little tug and came away with a working skimmer designed to look exactly like the card slot on the original machine. “It pays... - WhatsApp hits 100 million calls per day
- Oculus removes hardware DRM that locked games onto its headset
- A running tab of what tech people think about whether we’re living in a simulation
- YouTube expands creator outreach with new features, better support
- Today is the last day to save $1,200 on Disrupt SF tickets
- Omni Calculator brings math to the masses
- YouTube can still win the livestreaming war
- Is the future of VR NVIDIA, Sony and Apple?
Virtual reality is all the buzz nowadays. And why wouldn’t it be when analysts like Goldman Sachs make estimates that the industry is poised to surpass the TV market in annual revenue by 2025. That would make virtual reality bigger than TV in less than 10 years. These estimates are so massive becau... - Twitter quietly launches tags to location feeds with Foursquare
Location feeds linked to from these tags could inspire people to tweet more while out and about, fuel Moments about particular places, and improve Twitter’s ad targeting data. Better location functionality could be an important building block for Twitter’s future products and revenue potential. [Up... - 360fly’s new ad is a racist mess. I thought we were better than this.
What do you do when nobody is paying attention to your shiny new line of cameras? You could put together a campaign that shows how good your tech is and how it is the perfect match to your target audiences. Or you could go the other way, enlisting a Trump impersonator and an inexcusable dollop of s... - India’s FarEye lands $3.5M to make e-commerce logistics more efficient
- The world isn’t ready for only wireless headphones, Apple
- Prisma uses AI to turn your photos into graphic novel fodder double quick
- Bitcoin surges past $650 as Brexit result sends UK Pound tumbling to 30-year low
- What the actual hell, Britain?
- Flirtey delivers drugs by drone from ship to shore in New Jersey
- iZotope, Photoshop for sound, closes another $7.5M in financing
- The automation of design
Murphy’s Law decrees: “Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.” For any of us whose livelihood depends on our labor, things going wrong could mean: “Anything that can be automated, will be automated.” Our labor or skill in exchange for pay has undoubtedly caused us to seek security in the notion... - On the floor of The New York Stock Exchange at Twilio’s IPO
Today Twilio braved the public markets and did what no technology startup has done all year – go public. The company began trading this morning on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol TWLO, and didn’t disappoint. After pricing at $15 dollars, the stock opened at $23.99 per share and ... - 13 TechCrunch stories you don’t want to miss this week
This week, Tesla announced plans to buy SolarCity, Twilio IPOed, the NY State senate passed an anti-Airbnb bill and we discovered the world’s largest Nerf gun. Read on for a recap of the biggest tech stories of the week. Read More - Start your speculation engines, Apple is discontinuing its Thunderbolt Display
- MassChallenge sets up camp in Switzerland
- Uber switches out surge for price transparency
- Facial recognition systems stumble when confronted with million-face database
- Used BMW i batteries store solar power at home
- Malala Fund co-founder Shiza Shahid, AngelList partner to back “mission-driven” startups
- The Nintendo 64 turns 20 today
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- With 4,700 and counting, VinylHub aims to catalog every record shop on the planet
Over the last 15 years, Discogs has developed the near-definitive database for vinyl fanatics, cataloging over 6 million records from nearly 4 million artists. Now the company is working on another laborious project: creating the largest global record store database in the world, called VinylHub. “D... - Ranadivé to lead fund to promote University of California innovations
By Rory Carroll SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Vivek Ranadivé, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur whose software innovations helped automate Wall Street trading floors, will lead a $250 million fund aimed at promoting ideas hatched in the University of California's educational system. The fund will be tempora... - Best TVs under $500
There was a time when purchasing a “budget” flat screen TV meant giving up on performance, features, and even brand names. No more. As technology has advanced, the mid-to-entry level HDTV segment has enjoyed continually improved picture quality and added a bevy of other options once reserved for the... - LG goes big on thin laptops and ultra-wide monitors for CES 2016
- Ford gets California approval for testing self-driving cars on roads
- Jeb Bush on the Apple Watch: 'It's not as intuitive as other Apple products'
- Google Play Books adds a nighttime reading mode that's easier on your eyes
- Project Fi is now available on data-only devices and doesn’t charge a fee
- Runaway Russian robot may be scrapped
Officials at Promobot said a specific model tried to get away for a second time this week — and this time may be the final straw. - BlackBerry reports $670M Q1 loss
- Click here when I die: Sites lay out plans for loved ones
- Rifle dropped from list of 72 new emojis
- WATCH: Tesla’s Model S ‘floats well enough to turn it into a boat’
- Pick me! Edmonton man hopes to become Canada’s next astronaut
- Bay of Fundy tidal power turbines get approval from Nova Scotia government
- Cool Father’s Day technology ideas
- Chinese patent dispute could block Apple’s iPhone 6 being sold in Beijing
- Orlando shooting: Hacker hijacks pro-ISIS Twitter accounts, tweets about gay pride
- Apple building secret team to work on virtual reality: FT
(Reuters) - Apple Inc has assembled a large team of experts in virtual and augmented reality and built prototypes of headsets that could one day rival Facebook's Oculus Rift or Microsoft's Hololens, the Financial Times reported. A secret research unit, housing hundreds of staff assembled f... - BlackBerry wins approval to expand share buyback program
BlackBerry Ltd has received approval from the Toronto Stock Exchange to more than double its existing share buyback program and repurchase up to 5.8 percent of its public float, the smartphone maker said on Friday. The approval will allow the Waterloo, Ontario-based company to buy back up to 27 mill... - BlackBerry raises ceiling on 2015-16 stock buybacks, has spent US$73.7 million
BlackBerry Ltd. (TSX:BB) has more than doubled the amount of stock it can repurchase from the public market by mid-2016. The Waterloo, Ont.-based company said Friday that it has already repurchased 9.9 million common shares since June 29, 2015 — about 2.1 per cent of the public float — at an average... - Review: Going offline with Google Maps
- Samsung Elec warns of difficult 2016 as smartphone troubles spread
- Celebrity backed anonymous messaging app alarms parents, politicians
- 'Minecraft: Pocket Edition' top paid iPhone game app in Canada
- 'Face Swap Live' top paid iPhone app in Canada
- Do Home Automation Hubs Require Internet?
There are a number of automaton controllers supporting technologies including Insteon, Zwave and Zigbee, and a number of different popular home automation controllers. While it makes sense that an Internet connection can be used for remote control, email or SMS alerts, many automation controllers ... - New Smart Home Wiring Guide
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