Reddit’s annual recap of what users read last year dropped Wednesday morning and it turned out Canadians most enjoyed judging the manners of others. The subreddit r/amitheasshole was the most viewed in Canada of all the platform’s over 100,000 active communities, according to a news release. The discussion-based forum centred around users swapping anecdotes and […]
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SAN RAMON, Calif.—Apple on Tuesday unveiled a new version of its budget-priced iPhone that’s capable of connecting to ultrafast 5G wireless networks, an upgrade that’s already been available on the company’s upscale models for more than a year. The latest iPhone SE marks the first upgrade to the bare-bones version of Apple’s most popular product […]
Last week, around the height of the occupation of Ottawa, a small but symbolic clip went viral on Twitter in which an angry Ottawan stood on a balcony, swearing up a blue streak at the protesters below. “This should be a new Canadian Heritage Moment,” quipped more than a few people, referring to the classic […]
COVID 19 created an economy of extremes. Google got 166 per cent richer over the course of the pandemic, while many small businesses were being financially battered and barely clinging to life. One bad Google review can break a small business. The current trend of digital extortion, where scammers post bad reviews and demand payment […]
On an episode of Joe Rogan’s popular podcast last year, he turned to a topic that has gripped right-wing communities and other Americans who feel skeptical about the pandemic: search engines. “If I wanted to find specific cases about people who died from vaccine-related injuries, I had to go to DuckDuckGo,” Rogan said, referring to […]
Given the dystopian chaos we’ve endured in the past few years — a pandemic, a specific presidency, murder hornets — you’d be forgiven for wondering whether we collectively inhabit an expert-level simulation. In the midst of it all, Mark Zuckerberg emerged last October to rebrand Facebook as Meta and trumpet his vision for a new […]
Last week, at a Parliamentary Committee hearing, CRTC Chair Ian Scott was grilled by various Members of Parliament about competition in Canadian telecommunications markets. It was tense at times, with members of all political parties asking Scott about the prospects for American companies to enter the Canadian market. Unfortunately, the focus on American companies is […]
I’m not sure I ever expected a national wake-up call to come in the form of blaring horns from an 18-wheeler. But such is the situation that Canada faces currently. The so-called “Freedom Convoy” has given this occasionally sleepy nation a rude awakening. Partly, we are coming to terms with the fact that we too […]
“The PC is dead.” For years following the launch of iPhones, Androids and tablets, we heard this notion intoned very seriously by pundits — including me. As the touchscreen reigned and the keyboard and mouse started to look pokey and ancient, we just assumed the PC represented the past. So ready was I to buy […]
Occasionally, as I sit vacant-eyed in front of a TV, video game controller hand, a sense of sheepishness creeps into my mind. I think it must be a hangover of growing up in the ’90s, when video games were still things for nerds. At those times, I like to console myself — no pun intended […]