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Spotify pushed back against new streaming levies at a CRTC hearing in Ottawa today, telling regulators that streaming is already funding Canada’s music industry and boosting Canadian voices. Today is part of the ongoing consultation that started last week, The Path Forward – Supporting Canadian and Indigenous audio content. Xenia Manning, Spotify’s Director of Global...

Electronic Arts (EA) has agreed to be acquired in a massive $55-billion US (about $76.5 billion CAD) all-cash deal by a consortium that includes Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners. The agreement, announced today, will see the investor group buy 100 per cent of EA’s shares for $210 each—a 25...

WestJet passengers now have a new tool to fight back against lost luggage headaches: the airline is rolling out support for Apple’s Find My 'Share Item Location’ feature, joining Air Canada. As of last week, travellers with delayed bags can generate a tracking link from the Find My app and paste it into their baggage...

Bad Bunny has been officially named the performer for next year's Super Bowl XL Apple Music halftime show.

napchat is launching new paid Memories storage plans across the platform, offering 100GB, 250GB, and 5TB storage options to choose from

Image credit: Apple When the Detroit Tigers visited the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park on Friday, Apple TV+ closed out its 2025 Friday Night Baseball season with a milestone: iPhones were used as live broadcast cameras in a Major League Baseball game for the first time. Four iPhone 17 Pro units (in the latest...

Jony Ive, the iconic designer best known for shaping the iPhone and Mac during his decades at Apple, has turned his attention to something unexpected: a lantern. Ive’s creative collective LoveFrom, working with Japanese electronics brand BALMUDA, has released the Sailing Lantern, a limited-edition piece of just 1,000 units, priced at a cool $4,800 USD...

Canadian golf fans woke up Friday morning eager to catch the start of the Ryder Cup from Bethpage Black in New York. Instead, many were met with documentaries about Jack Nicklaus or Tiger Woods—and not a single tee shot. TSN golf analyst Bob Weeks was among the first to flag the issue. “Oh boy. Someone...

Toronto-based fintech Wealthsimple is taking aim at the federal government for allowing banks and investment firms to gouge Canadians with what it calls junk fees on their own savings. In a submission to the 2025 federal pre-budget consultation—ahead of the Nov. 4 budget release—the company warned that exit and transfer charges on registered accounts like...

Apple is secretly running a ChatGPT-style iPhone app to get ready for a major Siri overhaul coming next year, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. The app, code-named Veritas (Latin for “truth”), isn’t something you’ll see in the App Store. Instead, Apple staff are using it behind the scenes to test what the new Siri can...

Almost one million Canadians had their contact information stolen in a cyberattack on the federal government’s authentication system, later used in a massive phishing campaign. According to Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC), hackers accessed about 881,000 phone numbers tied to the Canada Revenue Agency’s MyCRA service, as well as more than 85,000 email addresses...

YouTube channel Max Tech ran a blind camera showdown between Apple’s iPhone 17 Pro Max, Samsung’s Galaxy S25 Ultra, and Google’s Pixel 10 Pro XL. The channel shot 30 scenes (in Maui at the Snapdragon event)—daylight landscapes, portraits, ultrawide, macro, 5–30x zoom, selfies, and night photos and video—then asked two judges (host Vadim's wife and...