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Apple’s 2025 Back to School Promo Coming This Month: Report

Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman is back again with his crystal ball for Apple’s annual back to school promo. For 2025, Apple’s back to school promotion will reportedly launch on Tuesday, June 17, 2025. That’s eight days after today’s WWDC keynote. Gurman accurately predicted the dates of Apple’s back to school promos in 2022, 2023 and 2024....

Apple’s Siri Reboot Hit by Bugs, Delays and Leadership Chaos: Report

Apple is falling behind in the race to develop a modern AI assistant, with multiple former employees telling the Financial Times the company is facing major technical and leadership challenges trying to upgrade Siri. At the heart of the problem is Apple’s attempt to rebuild Siri using large language models (LLMs), the same type of...

Public Mobile Quietly Upgrades $15 and $19 Plans for Existing Users

Public Mobile has quietly updated its $15 and $19 monthly plans, offering more value—but only for existing customers. The revised $15 plan, introduced on Friday, June 6, now includes 500MB of data, unlimited Canada-wide calling, and 100 international long-distance minutes to countries like China, India, Pakistan, the UK, and more. Previously, the plan came with...

Freedom Mobile’s $35 Roaming Deal Blooms at Oshawa Peony Festival

Freedom Mobile is running a limited-time event-exclusive promo at the Oshawa Peony Festival, offering 80GB of Canada-U.S.-Mexico data for just $35/month, plus 15GB of Roam Beyond data for use in over 100 destinations. This plan normally priced at $45 per month on the Freedom Mobile website, but you can save $10/month off if you sign...

iFixit Teardown: Nintendo Switch 2 Is Hard to Repair, Again

Eight years after the original, the new Nintendo Switch 2 delivers a major hardware boost—but iFixit’s teardown finds that fixing it is still frustrating. In a new video, iFixit praised the handheld’s technical upgrades: it now uses a much faster processor, has triple the RAM, and jumps from 32GB of eMMC storage to 256GB of...

Public Mobile Brings Back 20GB Plan with a Price Hike

Telus-owned Public Mobile has revamped its 4G plans list today, bringing back a 20GB plan from earlier this year. The new $29/20GB plan with 4G data is now available, but it now costs $3 more than it did in April. The plan gives you unlimited talk and text in Canada, to go with 20GB of...

Telus 5G Tech Helps Edmonton Police Keep Playoff Crowds Safe

Telus says it has pulled off a first in Canada, using 5G technology to make sure Edmonton police didn’t lose access to critical security cameras during the busiest moments of the Oilers’ playoff run. Working with Edmonton Police Service (EPS), Telus tested something called “5G priority slicing” — a tool that carves out a guaranteed...

Musk–Trump Feud Can’t Save Starlink’s $100M Ontario Deal: Ford

Elon Musk and President Donald Trump may be feuding in an ugly public spat, but that won’t be enough to bring Starlink back to Ontario. On Thursday, Ontario Premier Doug Ford confirmed that the province has no plans to restart a previously cancelled $100 million CAD satellite internet deal with Musk’s company, SpaceX. The project...