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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy landed in Calgary on Wednesday night ahead of a scheduled meeting with Prime Minister Mark Carney. They are set to meet in the city Thursday morning, and Zelenskyy is to later address a cabinet meeting in the nearby mountain resort town of Banff, Alta.Carney said the visit will focus on the countries’ shared priorities, including deepening defence, economic and energy co-operation.“It will also address the human cost of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine and build on the strong people-to-people ties that connect our countries,” Carney said in a statement. “Canada remains steadfast in our commitment to support Ukraine’s defence,…

Suno’s new v6 AI music model is its first made with support from the record industry. Suno’s Jack Brody told The Verge that v6 was “trained from the ground up, with a new set of data that does not include the same data that our previous models were trained on.” The data includes content licensed from partners Warner Music Group, BMG, and Believe, as well as “user data.” It’s unclear whether that means v6 training data is completely free of dubiously obtained content.One of the big changes in v6 is that there are actually three different models: v6, v6-wild, and…

SHENZHEN, China, Sept. 09, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Kandao Technology has introduced Kandao Meeting Pro 2, an all-in-one 4K conference system designed to improve communication and collaboration in hybrid meetings. Combining a 360° conference camera system with 4K HDR video, an 8-microphone array, AI-powered audio processing and built-in AI meeting tools, Meeting Pro 2 brings video, audio, and intelligent meeting assistance together in a single device. Designed to simplify hybrid meeting setups, Meeting Pro 2 addresses common challenges that can affect communication between in-room and remote participants, including limited visibility, inconsistent voice pickup, background noise, and room reverberation. By bringing…

Despite his optimism about the city’s future, Calgary’s mayor isn’t shying away from tough decisions in the upcoming city budget, including the need for a multi-billion-dollar infrastructure investment. Mayor Jeromy Farkas said Wednesday that the “bill is now coming due” for decades of deferred decisions from all orders of government in the form of a $50-billion infrastructure deficit over the next 10 years.“Right now, we face incredibly serious challenges,” Farkas said during a State of the City address to the Rotary Club of Calgary Downtown. “Affordability, public safety, economic uncertainty, rapid growth, and infrastructure that hasn’t kept pace with the…

Paying more for a new phone seems almost unavoidable after Apple’s event today. The new iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max start at $1,199 and $1,299, respectively — a $100 price hike over their predecessors. You can’t dodge the price hike by opting for an older iPhone, either, because Apple raised prices on those by $100, too. And it’s not just Apple. This year, the $100 price hike has been a trend across the industry.Google and Samsung followed the same formula as Apple when they each launched new phones over the past few months. The Pixel 11 starts at $899,…

SHANGHAI, Sept. 09, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — FREELANDER, the British Premium Intelligent All-Terrain Brand, is entering a new chapter with FREELANDER 8. Following extreme high-altitude and safety validation in China, the brand’s first strategic model has officially launched in the Chinese market, securing more than 10,000 orders within 48 hours. Now, FREELANDER 8 embarks on its next milestone, with its international variant set to be presented in Abu Dhabi as FREELANDER advances its entry into the Middle East. Before reaching the market, FREELANDER 8 demonstrated its all-terrain capability under extreme high-altitude conditions. The vehicle completed a demanding climbing challenge at…

A new suite bringing together MagSafe Wallet Stands, Clip-On CPL Filter and Clip-On VND Filter, 2-in-1 Shoulder Straps, 3.5X Telephoto Lenses, and other accessories in versatile, scenario-based kits for travel, street photography, concerts, and everyday content creation. SHENZHEN, China, Sept. 09, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — SmallRig is bringing the modular thinking behind its professional camera gear to the iPhone. The imaging brand today unveiled its new iPhone 18 Case Ecosystem, a flexible mobile imaging platform designed exclusively for iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max. iPhone 18 Case Ecosystem Built for creators who want greater capability without carrying bulky equipment,…

B.C. wine producers are bracing for the latest blow to cross-border alcohol sales, with the United States set to ban most Canadian alcohol imports later this month. At Lightning Rock Winery in Summerland, the impact is expected to be significant.“It seems that wine and booze in general in Canada and the U.S. is the punching bag for everything,” said Ron Kubek, owner of Lightning Rock Winery. “If I had known this, I wouldn’t have gone into the business.”Kubek is bracing for the looming U.S. ban and the potential loss of roughly 500 cases of his wine sold in the United…

Apple announced the company’s first device with a folding screen today, the iPhone Duo, but that’s where the firsts end. The Duo is not only far from the first foldable on the market thanks to the efforts of Samsung and Google, but it’s also not the first product to be called the Duo.Former Apple CEO Steve Jobs popularized the saying “good artists copy, great artists steal,” but will the iPhone Duo’s folding screen, which features a custom nano-texture display material to help minimize the visibility of its crease, be enough to make us forget these other Duos that have come…