Stories by Austin Blake

Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 introduce a redesigned health sensing system that records background heart rate every five seconds throughout the day, including while users are moving. Apple says that is 60 times more frequent than before, alongside heart rate variability readings as often as every five minutes, a 24-fold increase. The hardware...

Apple says the iPhone 18 Pro Max delivers the largest battery life increase ever on an iPhone, with up to 45 hours of video playback, while the smaller iPhone 18 Pro reaches up to 36 hours. Both figures apply to eSIM-only models. The gains come from A20 Pro chip efficiencies, system improvements and new battery...

Apple has unveiled the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max, promising its fastest iPhone chip yet, its longest battery life and camera upgrades aimed at better low-light photography and more creative control. The phones feature colour-matched aluminum and back glass for a more uniform look. Four finishes will be available: deep black, a...

Apple is holding its big September special event today, where the company is expected to unveil the iPhone 18 Pro lineup, its first foldable iPhone and other new product refreshes. The event starts today, September 9, at 10 a.m. PT / 1 p.m. ET. Apple has confirmed the presentation will be streamed online through its...

Rogers and OEG Sports & Entertainment have extended their partnership by another decade, keeping Rogers Place as the home of the Edmonton Oilers through 2036. The two sides announced the extension on Tuesday morning. The timing lines up with Rogers Place hitting its 10-year anniversary. To mark it, Rogers says it will hand out more...

Looks like Grand Theft Auto VI already owns the search bar after the info was shared with iPhone in Canada from Google Canada in an email on Tuesday, with Google Trends putting GTA VI at the top of trending video game searches ahead of National Video Games Day on September 12. Wardogs, Star Wars: Zero...

Looks like Telus is taking a former director to court over what it says was a multi-year shopping spree on the company card. According to a notice of civil claim filed in B.C. Supreme Court and reported by CBC News, Telus alleges Raymond Chow used corporate credit cards to buy more than 2,500 items worth...

Looks like Bell, Rogers and Telus are down to their last written word on those new phone fees. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has given the three carriers until September 10, 2026 to file final replies in the show-cause case over device, SIM and shipping charges that landed after the national ban on...

Freedom Mobile is back at the Pacific National Exhibition (PNE) in Vancouver, B.C. with another fair-exclusive wireless pitch, which has become something of an annual booth tradition. Today is the last day of the 2026 PNE Fair, which runs August 22 through September 7 according to pne.ca. The deal, spotted as a PNE Fair Exclusive...

Leaving a wireless home Internet plan has been messier than it needs to be. Wireline switches have long let your new provider cancel the old one for you. Wireless home Internet often left you calling the carrier you were trying to ditch. A new CRTC decision from September 4 is meant to fix that. The...

Quebecor just locked in another 12 years of French-language NHL hockey, inking a sublicensing deal with Rogers that keeps TVA Sports as the main place to watch the league in French from the 2026-27 season through 2037-38. That sits beside the 12-year Prime Video Wednesday Night Hockey pact Rogers handed Amazon in July, which already...

BCAA members can get 125GB of Rogers data across Canada and the US for $40 a month on a new BYOP line, plus a Pixel 10 for $0/month on select plans with financing.