Stories by Austin Blake

A Lucky Mobile customer on r/bell says Bell will not stop sending switch offers, and the latest one is 100GB for $30 a month with U.S. roaming if they bring their own phone. They pay $34 plus tax on Lucky, about $38 all in, for 60GB and they are happy with it. The Bell offer...

Bluesky added an account-level toggle so you can keep your public posts out of the Discover algorithmic feed, according to TechCrunch. The open social network announced the change on Thursday, August 27, a day after rolling out longer video support. Discover can currently surface any public post on the network, which means something you wrote...

Google is letting you pull eligible ebooks you bought on Google Play Books straight into Gemini Notebook, the company said Thursday in a Google blog post announcing Expert Intelligence. Once a supported title is in a notebook, you can ask questions grounded in that book, generate quizzes and Audio Overviews, and mix the text with...

Google has agreed to settle a UK collective action over Play Store fees for £260 million (about $353 million US, or about $489 million CAD), according to Reuters. The deal was published Thursday. The claim had sought more than £1 billion, and a trial had been due next month at London's Competition Appeal Tribunal. Professor...

Canadians who want the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to hear them on the new Bell, Rogers and Telus phone fees have until Monday, August 31 to file a comment. The deadline is 5 p.m. Pacific time, 8 p.m. in the East. After that, the record closes to the public and the three carriers...

Google’s Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash can extend a scene to 40 seconds, lock first and last frames, and upscale video to 4K.

French-language streaming rules are a sticking point in the collapsed Canada-U.S. trade talks, and law professor Michael Geist argues Ottawa is likely to oppose Quebec's Bill 109 in court.

Toy Story 5 is heading to Disney+ on September 23, just three months after it landed in theatres. Disney and Pixar confirmed the streaming date Thursday, and it comes just at the start of back to school season so your kids can catch Woody, Buzz, Jessie and the rest of the gang at home. The...

Toronto-based fintech Wealthsimple pulled in $17 billion in net inflows last quarter, its best result ever, and it's thanks to the company's ongoing monthly million dollar giveaway contest, according to a report from Investment Executive. The Monthly Millionaire program launched in May, as a way to get people to sign up. Clients register, open a...

Rockstar Games has finally addressed the wave of Grand Theft Auto VI gameplay footage that's been flooding social media for over a week, and the studio isn't happy about it. In a statement posted Wednesday morning, the company said the leaks have been "heartbreaking for our team, and this is obviously not how we intended...

Canada's trade negotiations with the U.S. fell apart Friday night over rules requiring American streaming platforms to promote Canadian content, and the two governments are now openly disputing what the demand actually was. Prime Minister Mark Carney confirmed Monday that U.S. negotiators introduced an unexpected demand hours before talks broke down, asking Ottawa to rework...

The CRTC has denied a request from Quebecor's Videotron that would have driven up prices for Canadians on the cheapest internet plans available from smaller providers. Videotron applied back in October 2025 to remove four low-speed wholesale tiers it sells to competing ISPs: 5Mbps down, 10Mbps down, 15Mbps down and 20Mbps down. The company argued it...