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Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is calling on Prime Minister Mark Carney to hold an emergency debate on the economy after Canada slipped into a technical recession by some definitions. Statistics Canada said Friday that the country’s GDP fell 0.1 per cent on an annualized basis in the first quarter of 2026, which follows a revised one per cent annualized decline in the fourth quarter of 2025. A technical recession is most commonly defined as two consecutive quarters of negative economic growth.“On Friday, you became the only leader in the G7 to have taken your country into a recession,” Poilievre wrote…

United flight 236 from Newark to Palma de Mallorca on Saturday night was forced to turn around just an hour after takeoff due to security concerns around a Bluetooth signal. Multiple Redditors claimed to be on the flight and reported that the crew repeatedly requested passengers to turn off their Bluetooth. According to one poster, the crew issued a one-minute warning, saying that two devices were still active.One Redditor reported flight attendants making comments like, “This little joke is ruining it for everyone.”An archived recording from Air Traffic Control (embedded below) confirms that the root of the issue was the…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, May 31, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — NEAR launched Near.com earlier this year, a consumer-facing app that folds AI into the user experience, and at roughly $3.6 billion in market cap it is a real product. It is also a textbook example of the gap. You do the prompting and refining that makes the models sharper, and the value flows back to the platform. The token captures none of it. Some investors are now looking instead at the Ruvi AI (RUVI) decentralized AI superapp, which meters 20+ AI models behind one $RUVI economy and pays its contributors.…

RALIEGH, N.C., May 31, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — A groundbreaking architectural design, modeled super AI Law notion using Google AI, revealed after a law intern begged the question as to how compounding the state-of-the-art data infrastructure of AI-119 Vulcan QAIA (Quantum AI Agent/Quantum AI Agency—recently reported as the AI City Hall Project) and AI Legal Mate with the advanced behavioral capabilities of ACTi AI (Athena) can immediately resolve the massive Camp Lejeune Justice Act (CLJA) claims backlog. This hybrid ‘AI Law mastery’ framework introduces an omni-AI blueprint to process city-sized case volumes within the United States Bankruptcy Court for the…

My eyes have seen the PC gaming promised land, and it’s a beautifully bright world without a shred of blurriness. It’s warm, it looks lovely, and it’s impeccably sharp. Also, it’s expensive as hell.I’ve dipped my toe in this world by testing a pre-production version of the upcoming Asus ROG Strix Scar 18, which was recently announced ahead of Computex 2026. It’s a gigantic 18-inch gaming laptop that comes with a top-of-the-line 24-core Intel Core Ultra 9 290HX CPU and can be fully kitted out with an RTX 5090 Laptop GPU and 128GB of RAM. Asus sent me a model…

Despite headwinds from the current administration, automakers continue to release well-equipped EVs with bigger battery packs and increasingly faster charging speeds. For those who want to travel further between plugging in, the future is still bright, just slightly tinted.But there haven’t been many sedans starting around or below $50,000, as crossover SUVs have largely taken up this territory. Now, Mercedes-Benz has released its CLA compact sedan which ticks every box above for the 2026 and 2027 model year, and throws in pleasant interior amenities and fun driving character for good measure.The CLA with EQ Technology (Mercedes’ term for “EV”) is…

NEW YORK, NY, May 31, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — NEWMEDIA.COM today released new analysis examining why many organizations are moving away from fragmented digital marketing structures and toward integrated AI Visibility Operating Systems designed to coordinate discoverability, authority, conversion optimization, analytics infrastructure, and AI-era search visibility into unified growth systems. According to the analysis, traditional digital marketing environments often separate SEO, paid media, PR, analytics, CRO, and content strategy into disconnected initiatives, creating operational inefficiencies and making it increasingly difficult to sustain visibility across evolving digital ecosystems. As AI-generated search experiences and recommendation systems become more influential in how customers…

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more news about gadgets and smartphones, follow Dominic Preston. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers’ inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here.In 2023, the European Union agreed on two landmark pieces of legislation mandating how portable tech products with batteries must be designed, aiming to improve longevity, repairability, and recyclability. Commission Regulation (EU) 2023/1670 came into force last year and applies specifically to smartphones and tablets, while Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 takes effect next year and covers almost every other piece…

SACRAMENTO, Calif, May 30, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Solana Unchained today disclosed the comprehensive operational structure of its upcoming decentralized platform, which unifies artificial intelligence features with three specialized infrastructure protocols. Scheduled to open its initial public allocation phase on May 30, 2026, the ecosystem establishes a functional framework where every internal network service requires the utilization of the native Solana Unchained token, ticker symbol $UCHN. Programmatic Mechanics Driving Internal Network Requirements The platform centers on moving token economics away from external market sentiment and toward continuous internal network usage. Total token supply is permanently capped at 100,000,000 units, with…

MONACO, May 30, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Crypto news today is turning toward AlphaPepe after the project announced that its presale has crossed $1.38 million in total capital raised. Stage 17 is live at $0.01804 per token, the holder count has passed 9,000, the AlphaSwap AI DEX demo has surpassed 5,000 active users, and AlphaPepe has completed a full 10/10 BlockSAFU security audit ahead of its planned Q2 2026 exchange debut. The $1.38 million milestone gives AlphaPepe a clear company update as Bitcoin price prediction headlines return to aggressive upside targets, with some bullish forecasts pointing toward $250,000 if institutional…