Stories by Austin Blake

Bell Media's Crave is loading up in June with something for everyone. The biggest arrival is HBO's House of the Dragon season 3, premiering June 21 with new episodes every Sunday. Love Island USA returns June 2 with Ariana Madix back as host for season eight. Power Book III: Raising Kanan wraps up its run...

Google showed up to Parliament Hill this week with a blunt message for the Liberal government. Bill C-22 isn't a modernization of Canadian law enforcement. It's a surveillance regime that goes further than anything in the democratic world, and nobody at Google was even consulted before it was written. Jeanette Patell, Google's director of government...

Telus is once again targeting its Public Mobile prepaid customers with a discounted home internet offer, pitching them on an upgrade to its PureFibre 1.5 Gigabit service. The promotion texted today to customers and obtained by iPhone in Canada, offers Public Mobile subscribers the PureFibre 1.5 Gbps plan for $95 per month on a 2-year...

Interac just announced a deal with identity security company Incode Technologies to beef up its Interac Verified suite with some serious anti-fraud tools, and Canadian businesses are the main beneficiary. The big addition is passive liveness detection, validated to iBeta Level 3 on both iOS and Android. San Francisco-based Incode is the first company to...

KeySmart, the brand behind a bunch of popular everyday carry gear, just dropped the SmartCard Pro, a wallet tracker that's making a pretty strong case for itself at $49.99 USD ($71 CAD). The big headline here is the battery as it runs on a 350mAh wireless-charged battery that KeySmart claims lasts up to 24 months...

Ferrari just unveiled the Luce, its first fully electric car, and it's the one Jony Ive designed. We already saw pictures of the interior teased, but now Ferrari has revealed the exterior at an event in Rome, Italy. Ive designed the iPhone, the iMac, and basically everything Apple made that people actually loved. He left...

Some Bell internet customers are waking up to a surprise in their inboxes, as the telecom giant is rolling out free speed upgrades to select pure fibre subscribers. A Bell customer shared a notification on Reddit after logging into their MyBell account, which revealed that their home internet download and upload speeds were being boosted...

Victoria city council has approved a development permit allowing Telus to install large corporate logos on its nearly complete Telus Ocean building at 749 Douglas Street, according to the Times Colonist. The two signs are roughly 15.4 metres wide and 2.9 metres tall, covering about 45 square metres each, which is well beyond the 4.5...

Anker sent us the SOLIX C2000 Gen 2 power station and PS400 solar panel last fall, and we've had a good chance to put both through their paces across a couple of different situations, with the help of friends and family. We actually got to test the C2000 before summer even arrived. During a couple...

Meta just launched Forum, a standalone iOS app that takes Facebook Groups and rebuilds them into something that looks a lot like a Reddit competitor. The app isn't in Canada yet, but if you have a US Apple ID, you can grab it right now (just use this same workaround back in the day to...

The Formula 1 2026 Canadian Grand Prix is finally here. As the racing world descends on the legendary Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve in Montréal, the anticipation is building for one of the most exciting weekends on the calendar. Whether you are following the championship leaders or cheering on local favourite Lance Stroll, here is the best way...

Major American streaming platforms including Netflix, Apple TV+, Amazon, and Disney+ are facing a tripling of their mandatory contributions to Canadian content under sweeping new rules from Canada's broadcast regulator, and the fallout is already getting loud on both sides of the border. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) announced yesterday that online broadcasters...