The next time Apple Maps suggests a nearby restaurant, take a closer look, because that recommendation may have paid to be there. Yes, Apple Maps officially has ads now, and they are beginning to appear alongside the ordinary listings people use to decide where to eat, shop, and go. If your immediate response is to…
The ongoing AI revolution has finally given us something everyone can get behind: a tiny robot duck on roller skates. Yes, really. On Aug. 27, AI platform Hugging Face unveiled Microduck, a 9.8-inch-tall bipedal robot that waddles, sits, kicks a ball, picks up objects with its beak, and gets back on its feet after falling…
Nearly 1,500 people are missing after a debris flow tore more than 60 miles down the Bhote Koshi river on August 26, and among them are at least 800 foreigners, including dozens of Americans. Scientists think the disaster started with a glacier collapse near the Langtang Lirung peak, on Nepal’s border with Tibet. A seismic…
Rob and Michele Reiner were stabbed to death in their Brentwood home last December. Their son Nick was arrested hours later and charged with killing them. Now their other son, Jake, is speaking for the first time about losing his parents and his brother in a single night. Rob Reiner watches the Lakers take on…
A historic church in Grand Rapids, Michigan, burned down late Wednesday evening. Firefighters arrived to scene at around 11 pm on Wednesday night and spent hours trying to put out the blaze. The roof of LaGrave Avenue Christian Reformed Church collapsed in the blaze. The cause of the fire is unknown at this time. The…
A Trump-style immigration crackdown is underway in Colombia — and hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan immigrants could be caught in the middle. Colombia’s new conservative president, Abelardo de la Espriella, has ordered immigration authorities and police to begin coordinated operations targeting foreigners who are in the country without regular immigration status, marking one of the sharpest…
Here’s how to watch out-of-market games in the 2026 NFL season, including the streaming service you’ll need, price breakdowns, and more.
“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.” ~Carl Rogers For most of my life, the story looked like a straight line going up. I never hit bottom. This isn’t that kind of story. And for a long time, that was exactly the problem. From the…
by Aretha du Rand: Thinking and sometimes even being preoccupied with finding meaning in our lives is often a natural spinoff from chronologically progressing into the second half of our lives (euphemism for growing old!)… Typically, the first half of our lives are very much about developing our egos to serve the world around us….
Sometimes, you get what you asked for. Honouring the podcasting ways of old, we put out a call for your burning questions on Canadian tech and tech from a Canadian perspective to produce a summer mailbag episode. Boy howdy did you deliver. “My god. Every time I ask you people for questions, I instantly regret…
