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Lorde was performing at the Real Cool Festival in Madrid on Thursday and took some time during her set to speak out against AI glasses. While she didn’t specify any brands in particular, it’s likely she was taking a shot at festival sponsor Ray-Ban, which has collaborated with Meta on a pair of AI smartglasses.The comments were captured in videos shared to social media. After thanking the crowd for being there and taking part in “something real,” she said that it was increasingly hard to know is and isn’t real, before saying “You don’t know if someone is wearing sunglasses…

Descrease article font size Increase article font size The Canadian Prairies saw more extreme weather Saturday night as a tornado touched down near the Alberta-Saskatchewan border. A red tornado warning was issued by Environment Canada around 5:30 p.m. for the County of Vermilion River. It was cancelled roughly 30 minutes later.The tornado is the 24th reported in Alberta so far this year — an increase of more than 50 per cent compared to 2025. Get daily National news Get daily Canada news delivered to your inbox so you’ll never miss the day’s top stories. Images captured by a Global News…

“Let’s get that pipeline through eh?” one Stampede-goer said to Carney. “Thank you for doing this. We need someone like you to push this through.” “You know where we stand out here right? We’ve got to have that pipeline. It’s good for the country,” said another man.Carney said he’s optimistic the pipeline will get done and that polling across the country shows it has majority support.“I’m feeling pretty good about it now,” Carney said.He was scheduled to return to the Stampede on Sunday morning.Earlier Saturday, Carney reposted his sweeping 17-minute video argument for working across provincial boundaries and ditching his…

NEW YORK, NY, July 12, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — How should a B2B company evaluate a performance marketing or demand generation agency? Start with what usually goes wrong: not too little marketing, but marketing activity disconnected from revenue, with channels run separately and no one owning the pipeline. A new RankOS™ analysis sets out the criteria that separate the agencies that fix this, and names a shortlist that meets the bar. In short: The best B2B performance and demand generation agencies run paid media, SEO, content, and conversion as one system measured on pipeline and revenue, not activity. The criteria…

Apple’s self-driving car program never really got off the ground, but it may have been what made the company’s chips the powerful AI performers they are. Early in the development of the self-driving platform, Apple realized that it would need powerful on-device AI processing. While the car processor was never finished, as Mark Gurman details in his latest Power On newsletter, it did lead to the development of the Neural Engine, the backbone of Apple’s on-device AI processing.The Neural Engine made its debut with the iPhone X and the A11 Bionic. In those early days, it was primarily used for…

RICHMOND, Va., July 12, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — QAIAx Microcities Clinical Trial provided an new patent filing update regarding the development of an open-source military-grade artificial general intelligence (AGI) platform named the QAIAx Cool World (ISAC) platform. This platform enables real-life holoportation of humans, hard objects, holographic agents, and omni-AI humanoids, which can be partially or fully controlled by human users. It operates under a pioneering public-use technology license aimed at regulating AGI, ensuring data privacy, and maintaining legal compliance within the context of an AI smart health cities clinical trial. The technology introduces a 90/10 hybrid human-AI civic workforce…

MIAMI, FL, July 12, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — A quiet shift is underway in how cannabis retailers handle cash. Where early operations improvised with basic counters and manual reconciliation, a growing number of high-volume dispensaries now invest in commercial cash-handling infrastructure: integrated counting, authentication, and reporting built to operate as a system. According to AccuBANKER, a provider of commercial cash-handling solutions with more than 45 years of industry experience, this shift reflects an industry moving from improvisation toward operational maturity. Cannabis Cash-Handling Infrastructure Investment Cash-handling infrastructure is the coordinated set of equipment and processes a business uses to count, authenticate,…

By Staff The Canadian Press Posted July 12, 2026 10:21 am 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size A new deal has been struck for a three-year labour contract between a union representing Canadian autoworkers and Ford Motor Co. The tentative agreement covers roughly 5,000 workers at five plants in southern Ontario and one in Alberta. Get daily National news Get daily Canada news delivered to your inbox so you’ll never miss the day’s top stories. Details are being kept under wraps until they can be presented to union members for ratification.Negotiations began on June 22,…

By Staff The Canadian Press Posted July 12, 2026 10:41 am 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size The BC Wildfire Service is issuing a call for compliance, as two out-of-control wildfires continue to burn in the Fraser Canyon. An overnight statement from the agency says that since Highway 1 reopened yesterday, between Boston Bar and Jackass Summit, drivers have been seen speeding through the fire zone and even stopping to film the ongoing firefighting efforts. Get breaking National news Get breaking Canada news delivered to your inbox as it happens so you won’t miss a…

The state of the smart home can be frustrating, because it is just so obvious how things ought to work. You should be able to control everything from everywhere. Your spaces should adapt to what you’re doing and how you’re feeling. Making your home smart shouldn’t require renovating, and the smarts should be mostly invisible. All of this is, of course, incredibly hard to pull off — but the goal is pretty clear.Until now, maybe no product has come closer to nailing the smart home than Philips Hue. And on this episode of Version History, we dig into all the…