With just days to go before its theatrical release, the review embargo for Evil Dead Burn has officially lifted and while not every critic is completely sold, the latest chapter in the legendary horror franchise is already earning praise for delivering exactly what longtime fans have been craving: relentless gore, inventive kills, and an unapologetically…
Christian Weedbrook, founder and CEO of Toronto-based quantum computing firm Xanadu, visited the White House on Tuesday to attend the US government’s quantum summit. The news: Weedbrook shared the news in an X post. He told BetaKit over email that the event brought together American quantum CEOs and senior US government officials working on related…
The future of the United Nations (UN) is in play, largely because of its refusal to censure Iran—a member nation. In May, Secretary of State Marco Rubio reprimanded the UN: “If you’re telling me that the international community and hundreds of countries cannot rally behind that, then I don’t know what the utility of the UN…
Screenshot President Trump on Wednesday held a press conference at the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, where he boasted about America’s strength on the world stage and told the alliance who the boss is. “We have the strongest military in the world by far, not even close, everybody admits it,” Trump declared before touting his…
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker/Screencap from Twitter/X video. Hardware giant True Value has just announced that they are moving their headquarters from Chicago, Illinois to Fort Wayne, Indiana. It is just the latest in an exodus of big businesses which have fled Illinois on the watch of Governor JB Pritzker over the state’s high taxes and…
Kitchener-Waterloo-based information management company OpenText has laid off two percent of its workforce, BetaKit has learned. The news: OpenText has confirmed to BetaKit that it has laid off two percent of its global workforce. The confirmation comes after OpenText employees began posting on social media and online message boards this week that they were laid…
The federal government is dispensing $10.2 million across six Manitoba businesses to help them grow and adopt new technologies like AI. The news: The Prairies Economic Development Canada’s (PrairiesCan) funding was announced by AI Minister Evan Solomon at a Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce event on Tuesday morning. The largest recipient was Winnipeg-based adtech Taiv, which…
Some Québec clinics might soon use AI-powered technology to more quickly test patients for dry eye syndrome and help doctors diagnose the condition. The testing comes through the Québec government-fundfed Medteq+ Support Program. Montréal-based healthtech startup AI4Eyes is rolling out its AI-powered dry eye disease diagnosis and treatment recommendation platform for testing in certain Québec…
In the U.K., the government developed a group tasked with “dreaming up psychological tricks to alter our behaviour” without the people being aware of it. The Behavioural Insights Team, known unofficially as the “Nudge Unit”, set the narrative for the COVID-19 fiasco. They were the team behind the infamous slogan, “Stay Home, Protect the NHS,…
Finding peace starts with surrendering our worries to the universe and trusting that God’s guidance will meet us in the middle of our uncertainty. Best-selling author of Finding God Every Day, Rebecca Simon, reminds us to trust God’s timing, embrace patience, and lean on His presence through every season of life. You don’t have to carry…
