Stories by Austin Blake

YouTube is rolling out a new end-of-year feature called Recap, giving users a full snapshot of everything they watched in 2025. It’s available now for users in North America and will reach the rest of the world later this week. You can access your Recap right from the YouTube homepage or by opening the “You”...

Samsung has announced the Galaxy Z TriFold, a smartphone that folds twice to create a huge 10-inch display. The device launches December 12 in Korea and will expand to markets including China, Taiwan, Singapore, the UAE and the United States. Unfortunately for Canadian Samsung fans, Canada is not part of the first rollout. While Apple...

Google is bringing its newest AI model, Gemini 3, to Google Search’s AI Mode in Canada, after first launching it in the U.S. last month. The update lets Canadian users with Google AI Pro ($26.99 CAD/month) or Ultra ($339.99 CAD/month) subscriptions switch to “Thinking” in the model selector to access Gemini 3 Pro, the first...

A Nova Scotia resident who spoke out in October about a proposed Shared Tower installation says the project now appears to be moving ahead, despite months spent trying to halt or redirect it. Back in October 2025, Kathleen O’Brien raised a series of allegations about the tower application, including claims that company Shared Tower submitted...

Telus-owned Public Mobile today ramped up its Cyber Monday offers with a bump in data, but what customers really want are some cheaper plans. Well, if you’re an existing Public Mobile customer, there are new plans being offered inside your account, after you log in and go to “change subscription”. Here are just some of...

Canadians can now sign up for bank accounts that cost no more than $4 per month. Fourteen federally regulated financial institutions, including the country’s biggest banks, have finished rolling out updated low-cost and no-cost account options. These changes were part of a commitment first announced by the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada (FCAC) in June....

Earlier this month, Telus and Koodo launched special deals only available on Reddit, and now we’re starting to see something actually come out of this. A new Koodo deal is getting a lot of attention, and it looks like one of the best carrier offers for Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Several RFD users say...

Disney+ is setting up two life-size living room displays at CF Toronto Eaton Centre this Black Friday weekend, giving fans a chance to step into scenes inspired by The Simpsons and Home Alone. Visitors can snap holiday photos in the recreated sets, get a printed picture to take home, and pick up a small watch...

Will the real Black Friday please stand up? Telus-owned Public Mobile has just dropped a new Black Friday plan, slashing the price of its $60 plan by $15, down to $45 with 100GB of talk, text and data across Canada-US and Mexico. Here are Public Mobile’s Black Friday plans as of November 28, 2025: $35/10GB...

Rogers has updated its website this afternoon to set an end date for a data bonus on its select Black Friday plans.  The $85/200GB plan with Canada and US talk, text and data now has a label to say the 25GB bonus data will end on December 1, which is Cyber Monday. Last week, we...

Apple has released its annual holiday ad, and it's not as good as the videos from the past. The new spot, called “A Critter Carol,” features a group of handmade woodland puppets who find a lost iPhone 17 Pro, film themselves singing a friendship song, and return the phone to its owner. The short is...

Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 chip was officially detailed today, and OnePlus confirmed it will be the first company to ship it inside an upcoming device, the OnePlus 15R. The chip marks a big leap over the previous generation, with a 36 percent CPU jump, an 11 percent GPU boost, and far stronger on-device...