Author: News Room

Cycling advocates are looking to escalate the legal battle over bike lanes on three major Toronto streets, asking the Supreme Court of Canada to take on the Ford government’s years-long effort to tear them out. In a mid-August ruling, the Ontario Court of Appeal overturned a lower court’s decision that removing bike lanes violated the Canadian Charter, allowing the government to proceed with its plan.The decision reactivated a policy that the Ford government first put in place at the end of 2024 to restore space for vehicles — and remove bike lanes — from portions of Bloor Street West, Yonge…

Actor Selma Blair was arrested after she was accused of injuring two flight attendants during a trip from Los Angeles to New York on a Delta Air Lines flight. Blair is also accused of kicking a police officer taking her to the hospital and kicking a nurse once she got there.The 54-year-old actor pleaded not guilty on Monday to two counts of assault for state charges involving the officer and the nurse, The Associated Press reports.Blair also faces separate federal charges based on what happened on the flight, which her representatives said was brought on by a severe medical emergency.…

After months sitting on the sidelines of the frontier AI race, Google has finally launched its long-awaited Gemini 4 Argon model, claiming it can compete with the best the industry has to offer.Google says Argon delivers “frontier reasoning and improved performance across complex workflows,” while cutting down on hedging, repetition, and the cliches that continue to plague AI chatbots. The company claims Argon outperforms rival models like GPT-6 Astra, Claude Fable 5.1, and Claude Opus 5.5 across a range of benchmarks, including coding, cybersecurity, science, finance, and law.Google says it’s already putting Argon to use internally, such as finding and…

Police in Durham Region are warning parents, caregivers and the community about an increase in online threats involving coordinated groups they call “The Com.” “The Com,” or the Community as it’s also known as, is a network of online predators who use a variety of tactics to exploit young people. The network uses manipulation, coercion, grooming and intimidation to build trust and create secrecy through fear or shame to then pressure victims into harmful or unsafe activities.In some cases, the activities can result in violent and/or criminal behaviour, Durham Regional Police said in a social media post.This has included coercing…

Breaking Bad actor and disability rights advocate RJ Mitte, died Monday at the age of 34, authorities and his representatives said. Cameron County Justice of the Peace Cyndi Hinojosa told The Associated Press she declared Mitte dead at about 1:30 p.m. at what she believed was his home in Brownsville, Texas.She said she was unable to provide a cause, but an autopsy will be performed.Mitte, who had cerebral palsy, played Walter White Jr., the son of Bryan Cranston’s chemistry teacher-turned-meth dealer Walter White on nearly every episode of five seasons of the hit show Breaking Bad. In a statement announcing his…

When Nvidia originally showed off DLSS 5 earlier this year, the technology immediately got branded as gen AI for video games. To gamers, Nvidia had lost the plot. I personally couldn’t get over how faces were transformed using DLSS 5. The 15-year-old student from Hogwarts Legacy suddenly looked much older, and Grace from Resident Evil Requiem looked yassified.Now more than six months later, DLSS 5 is about to debut properly in Hogwarts Legacy, and it looks like it has been seriously toned down. Nvidia published new comparison screenshots today, where the changes to faces are as subtle as they are…

Descrease article font size Increase article font size Canada has joined more than two dozen other countries in denouncing Iran’s apparent involvement in a planned attack on an air base in England. The countries said in a joint statement Monday they “condemn in the strongest terms Iran’s use of violent attacks, including the acts of lethal plotting, arson, sabotage, cyber-attacks, and other hybrid activities against us and our partners.”British Prime Minister Andy Burnham said Monday that a suspected terror plot at a U.S.-run military air base last month was “almost certainly” directed by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard.“We recognise the United Kingdom’s…

The speaker includes the S10 chip, which debuted in the Apple Watch Series 10, and it can power a host of features. It will support Siri AI after a future update, pairing you with a better, more helpful voice assistant. The speaker can be integrated into a four-speaker surround system with the new Apple TV 4K, and they can serve as speakers for a Mac computer (so long as it supports Wi-Fi 6E). Lastly, the top of the HomePod Mini 2 can arrange its LEDs to mimic the album artwork for the music you’re listening to.

Descrease article font size Increase article font size More than 220,000 people cast ballots during advance voting in the upcoming Toronto municipal election – a new record. The City of Toronto said Tuesday that 222,550 eligible voters went to the polls during the six days of advance voting, which began on Oct. 6 and ended on Oct. 11.The city said 36,743 voters cast ballots on Oct. 6, 31,018 voters did on Oct. 7 and 28,666 voters turned out on Oct. 8. Get daily National news Get daily Canada news delivered to your inbox so you’ll never miss the day’s top…

Apple unveiled a slate of new smart home gadgets at its aptly named “Welcome Home” event today, including its first (and highly anticipated) smart home hub. That flagship announcement came alongside much-needed refreshes for Apple’s HomePod Mini and TV 4K devices, and a selection of new smart home and security accessories designed together with trusted third-party manufacturers.Catch up on all of Apple’s new hardware announcements in our roundup below, or click through for more detailed coverage on each.The screen can be used to display smart home control widgets, clock faces, photos, and more. Image: AppleFrom this angle it really looks…