Stories by Austin Blake

Telus is in B.C. Supreme Court over a Consumer Protection B.C. fine that started with a mistaken $1,435.65 cancellation fee, CBC News reports.

Transit launched Share Trip on September 1 so friends and family can follow a live public transit ride and ETA instead of sending another where-are-you text.

Apple set a $58 million US pay target for new CEO John Ternus and $47 million US for Tim Cook as executive chairman, according to Bloomberg.

Sonos has introduced Sonos 27, the newest version of its audio operating system, and you can now run your speakers with whatever AI assistant you want, including OpenAI's ChatGPT. Sonos 27 voice is the company's own assistant, built around music and mood curation. Sonos 27mcp is the more interesting one, since it lets you hook...

A 102-year-old Toronto man spent hours on his stoop after his Bell landline died. The Star says a faulty copper connector was to blame, with fibre coming this fall.

Quebecor Media told the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) on August 31 that it fully supports the ban on activation and modification fees, calling those charges barriers to switching cellphone and Internet plans. The intervention lands on the public-comment deadline in the show-cause case against Bell, Rogers and Telus, who rolled out new device,...

Tomorrow marks the entry into September, where we'll officially see the end of summer later next month. A new month means another list of what's new on Bell Media's Crave streaming service. As for some highlights, the 78th Primetime Emmy Awards land on September 14. The HBO documentary series Jaÿ-Z in 8 is out on...

Apple built a stubbier Apple Pencil for the coming foldable iPhone, magnetically attaching it to the side for storage and charging the way the iPad versions do, then tested the idea internally and, according to Mark Gurman in Sunday's Power On newsletter for Bloomberg, it now looks unlikely the accessory ships next month. Gurman says...

The New Brunswick government is putting cellphones and personal mobile devices away in classrooms this September, according to a Friday, August 28 gnb.ca news release out of Oromocto that Education and Early Childhood Development Minister Claire Johnson used to talk up learning and social connections. "We know too much screen time and social media use...

Sam Altman just cut Elon Musk off at Cursor, with OpenAI saying Friday it will stop supplying its models to the coding tool now that SpaceX owns it. That's the latest swing in a years-long fight that started when Musk helped found OpenAI, walked out, sued over the for-profit turn, and built xAI as a...

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) will still write Canadian content rules for streaming services even after those rules helped blow up trade talks with Washington, according to Global News.

Anthropic opened a research preview of the Model Hardware Standard so AI agents can safely run lab robots, microscopes, and quantum lasers.