Open banking sounds boring. It could finally let Canadians fire their budgeting screen scraper
Canada’s consumer-driven banking framework promised safer financial-data sharing without handing a budgeting app the keys to your bank account.
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The 2024 edition
Apple Vision Pro came to Canada at $4,999. The real price was the experiment
The headset finally reached Canadian stores in 2024. Once lenses, a case and coverage entered the basket, “five thousand dollars” was only the opening line.
The girl, the blue flash and the luckiest livestream on Earth
A Portuguese student accidentally framed herself beneath the brightest part of a 500-kilometre superbolide. We found the original posts, mapped the flight and modelled the real odds.
Gemini arrived in Canada with a $26.99 monthly question: what is AI worth?
Google’s Gemini launch made generative AI a consumer subscription in Canada. The feature list mattered less than deciding which work should never be delegated.
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