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Police in Hamilton say they’ve rescued six puppies after responding to a “concerning animal welfare incident” on the east Hamilton Mountain. They say on Tuesday at around 1:30 p.m., police responded to a residence after a worker removing a tree nearby saw “several puppies in distress” inside an outdoor cage. Get breaking National news Get breaking Canada news delivered to your inbox as it happens so you won’t miss a trending story. Officers arrived and located eight puppies that “appeared severely undernourished.” Several were unresponsive and one was dead.Police say officers provided water to the surviving puppies and contacted Animal…
Are legions of smart devices — fridges, ovens, vacuum cleaners, lawnmowers, security cameras, and TVs — conspiring to take over the internet? No. But they could soon be unwitting hosts to self-replicating AI models that spread from device to device and prove remarkably difficult to contain.Welcome to the unsettling world of AI worms, where, depending on who you ask, the prospect of models spreading uncontrollably across household appliances is either an imminent cybersecurity risk or another case of AI companies spreading doomer-tinged hype. In a blog post published this week, Anthropic warns that small AI models could be “months away”…
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Canadians shopping for a home say they are willing to live with mom and dad just to be able to afford a home, a new poll by the Royal Bank of Canada has found. More than half (53 per cent) of respondents looking to buy their next or first home within the next two years said they would consider living in a multi-generational home, the RBC Home Ownership Poll found.However, the enthusiasm for multi-generational living is not necessarily matched by mom and dad. In contrast to prospective homebuyers, 35 per cent of…
Canadian folk legend Joni Mitchell has announced that she’s now a U.S. citizen. Mitchell posted a photo of herself smiling as she held an American flag and stood in front of the United States and Department of Homeland Security flags on Instagram.She also shared a short video of herself as she was called up to be sworn in as a citizen.“A journey that began 62 years ago,” Mitchell captioned an Instagram post, celebrating the news. Mitchell was born in Alberta and travelled to the U.S. for the first time in 1965 with her former husband Chuck Mitchell, where they lived…
You don’t need to buy the new Apple TV 4K just to get the updated Siri Remote with Find My and a built-in speaker, as it works with every model released going back to the Apple TV HD and is available to buy standalone for $59.Previous Siri Remotes had a basic iOS feature to help you find your misplaced remote, but this is better, with one notable catch. Now the remote has Find My support, but if you want to see exactly how far away it is on your iPhone with details like “20 feet,” rather than simply “far” or…
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Toronto police will hold an update Wednesday regarding an investigation centred around two Canadian Armed Forces members facing dozens of charges. Chief Myron Demkiw and Supt. Joe Matthews are set to speak to reporters at 11 a.m. ET, just over a week after the arrests of Bombardiers Sachintha Fernando and James Moreau were announced.Fernando, 22, and Moreau, 29, were arrested on Aug. 11 and face a total of 49 charges, including kidnapping for ransom, forcible confinement and use of a firearm during the commission of an indictable offence. Get breaking National news…
When Tracy Slaney imagined her life after retirement, she says she pictured travelling the world with her husband. But like many caregivers in Canada, the cost of looking after her loved ones means she had to put her plans on hold. “Those retirement plans that I once had are gone. They are decimated,” she said.In 2014, she became a caregiver for her father after he was diagnosed with terminal cancer. Within days of his passing, her mother received a dementia diagnosis. Slaney then stepped into a caregiver role for her until she died in 2019.On Valentine’s Day 2020, she found…
We have to talk about this screen. It’s the first thing you notice, and maybe the only thing that matters, about the Alexa Tablet 12 Pro. It’s a 12-inch, 2800 x 1840 panel with a new technology Amazon calls “Nanomatte” that is meant to decrease glare and increase the feeling that you can reach out and touch the things you see onscreen. When Amazon set out to build the best tablet the company has ever shipped, it started with this screen.The $549.99 device I’ve been testing is one of four new models in the Alexa Tablet lineup, which ranges from…
For a car that’s supposed to be one of the fastest ever made, the new Tesla Roadster certainly took its sweet-ass time getting here.It’s been nearly a decade since Elon Musk made the surprise announcement about plans to build a next-gen Roadster. Now, the Tesla Roadster is finally expected to make its production-ready debut at an event in Waco, Texas — and the timing couldn’t be worse.The new Roadster is set to arrive in an EV market beset by high energy prices, political turmoil, and consumer uncertainty. The tax-credit-fueled exuberance of the post-covid years has since given way to slower…
Repairable, ethical phone brand Fairphone has released its second pair of earbuds. The Fairbuds 2 are just as repairable as the first generation, but deliver improved audio and almost twice the battery life. The Fairbuds 2 are out now in the UK and Europe from £99 / €119, and a US launch at $119 will follow on November 2nd.The Fairbuds 2 have been redesigned from the ground up, moving to a stemmed design, available in black or green, and a case that’s 37 percent smaller than the first generation. Despite that shrinking hardware, Fairphone has almost doubled the buds’ battery…