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Apple reported results for its fiscal third quarter on Thursday, and it was the company's biggest June quarter ever. Revenue came in at a whopping $109.4 billion US, up 16 per cent from the same quarter last year, with earnings of $2.02 per share, a 29 per cent jump. The iPhone did most of the...

PC Mobile, which is available inside retail stores under the Loblaw brand, has tweaked its 5G plans (which run on the Bell network and also include the new suspicious call detection feature). Here are the changes made today to PC Mobile’s plans: $19/1GB 4G $25/5GB 5G $30/20GB (was 15GB) 5G $35/35GB (was 30GB) 5G As...

The US ban on foreign-made advanced robotic devices reaches a lot further than humanoid machines, and that includes the robot vacuum sitting in your hallway. The FCC confirmed to PCMag that the ban, which stems from a White House order, applies to both robot vacuums and robot lawn mowers. When the FCC announced it, the...

Toronto-based fintech Wealthsimple closed the second quarter of 2026 with $155.6 billion in assets under administration, up 24.7 per cent from the previous quarter and 84.1 per cent from a year ago, said the company on Thursday. Wealthsimple now has 3.6 million clients, not including tax filers, and says nearly a quarter of Canadians between...

Google Earth has added new AI tools directly into its web platform, allowing people to generate custom imagery on top of real satellite photos. Powered by the Nano Banana 2 generator (Google's AI image generator), the feature lets users zoom in on any neighbourhood on the map and visualize potential changes or historical scenes. Anyone...

Yahoo has rolled out a redesigned version of its Weather app, and it's available now for iOS users in Canada and worldwide. The update brings a cleaner layout along with better forecasting, interactive radar, and a lot more environmental data than the old version had. The biggest change is how the app frames a forecast....

Rokid has officially announced the Canadian launch of its AI-powered smart glasses, featuring the world's smallest Micro-LED projection engine.

Best Buy Canada's Door Crashers sale begins today, July 30th with savings of up to $300 on select laptops.

The federal government intends to scrap the requirement that foreign streamers (mainly US) like Netflix, Apple TV+, Paramount+, and Prime Video pay a share of their Canadian revenue into domestic content funds (CanCon), replacing that money with taxpayer funding instead. The plan surfaced in a July 17 court filing and has since been confirmed by...

No Name Mobile which runs on the Bell wireless network has tweaked its data plans on Wednesday, increasing data buckets ahead of the back to school season. Here are No Name Mobile’s plans as of July 29, 2026: $19/2GB $25/6GB $30/30GB (was 20GB) $35/45GB (was 35GB) As you can see, the higher end $30 and...

Wealthsimple Predict is now live on the App Store and Google Play, giving Canadians a regulated way to trade on the outcome of real-world events from their phone. It's a standalone app rather than a feature inside the main Wealthsimple app, though existing clients sign in with the same credentials and open a separate Predictions...

Google has added voice input to the Gemini app for macOS, letting you talk to it from inside whatever window you happen to be working in rather than switching over to a separate app. The way it works is you long-press the Fn key and start talking. By default that gives you dictation, but a...