Stories by Austin Blake

The military sci-fi thriller War Machine starring Alan Ritchson has taken the top spot as Netflix’s most-watched movie of 2026 so far. Viewing data released by Netflix on Tuesday reveals that subscribers logged 97 billion hours of watch time across the platform's entire catalogue in the first six months of the year. The winning film...

Tesla has begun pushing its 2026 Summer Release to vehicles, and this one leans heavily on Grok, personalization and a few features owners have been asking about for a while. Grok gets the biggest expansion. The in-car AI assistant can now place phone calls, search and play music, adjust climate, open the glovebox, and answer...

Apple released the fourth betas of iOS 27 and its other platforms to developers yesterday. This round brings a handful of interface tweaks, new Siri voice options and a long list of bug fixes. Going by zollotech's walkthrough of the build, most of the changes are small ones you'll notice day to day. Siri picks...

Another day and another advancement in the AI arms race. Google has released two new versions of its Gemini AI models, and while the announcement is mostly aimed at developers, the changes trickle down to anyone using the Gemini app or Google Search. The main one is Gemini 3.6 Flash, which replaces the version Google...

X has finished a full rewrite of its Android app, a project that took more than a year and ranks as one of the biggest engineering efforts in the company's history. Nikita Bier, Head of Product at X, announced the launch on Monday, saying, "Today we're announcing the completion of one of the largest engineering...

A retired Rogers insider is asking the CRTC to ban advance billing, the practice that has nearly every Canadian paying for phone, internet and TV service 30 days before using it, according to the Toronto Star. Stephen Lawton, 74, spent 18 years as a senior adviser in the office of the president at Rogers, sitting...

Freedom Mobile has launched a new campaign targeting Canada's major telecom carriers, accusing Rogers, Bell, and Telus of finding ways to charge subscribers extra despite recent regulatory changes. The carrier launched a dedicated campaign page on its website asking, "What The Fees?", to call out its incumbent competitors directly. Freedom Mobile said that when the...

Apple has quietly updated its AppleCare+ protection plans, introducing price increases that specifically target Canadian Mac and iPad buyers. The price changes first surfaced in the U.S. as first reported by Bloomberg's Mark Gurman last week. A closer look and Canadian customers are also facing these prices increases as well. After AppleCare+ went up in...

Toronto-based fintech Wealthsimple has started rolling out an upgrade to its spend tracking features, giving users more control over how they monitor their monthly expenses. The digital platform introduced several updates to its Spend Insights tool to help its users easily see where their money goes each month. Among the new changes is an automated...

Apple’s price increases keep coming, and this time subscription prices have gone up, and they also apply to Canada. Starting with Apple Music, pricing have gone up by $1 and $3 depending on the plan: Student: $5.99/month (no change) Individual: $11.99 (was $10.99) Family: $19.99 (was $16.99) “As a result of rising licensing costs, Apple...

Google is rolling out a major update for its health tracking platform that addresses some of the most common user requests. The latest Google Health app version 5.04 is heading to both Android and iOS devices over the next week, bringing highly requested nutrition tools, improved sleep metrics, and bug fixes. If you're just tuning...

SpaceX and Starlink have shaken up how it handles international roaming, and for anyone who takes cross border road trips, there's some good news buried in the changes. The company has started grouping countries into shared regions, which means your service area just got a whole lot bigger. If those new 30 day roaming limits...