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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...

YouTube durability tester JerryRigEverything has put the regular iPhone 17 through his usual torture test to see how tough Apple’s latest phone really is. We've already seen him try to bend the iPhone Air, which was a test that shocked and surprised him. On the front, Apple’s new Ceramic Shield 2 glass once again held...

Meta will soon give people in the UK the option to pay for ad-free access to Facebook and Instagram, following guidance from the country’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). So here’s the deal: Meta’s rolling out a new option in the UK where you can actually pay to stop seeing ads on Facebook and Instagram. If...

Amazon Canada will face Quebec’s Labour Tribunal starting Friday over the closure of seven warehouses that left 1,700 workers without jobs earlier this year. The CSN union, which represents the workers, is appealing Amazon’s decision and wants the company to pay employees one year’s salary. The union says the closures were an attempt to “eradicate”...

Uber is now available directly inside WeChat (known as Weixin), letting Chinese Canadians and Chinese travellers request and pay for rides without leaving the app. The popular Chinese messaging platform has about 1 million users in Canada, is one of the most popular messaging and payment platforms among Chinese communities. Back in July, Uber launched...