The best apps for tracking your reading and discovering new books
From discovering new books and organizing your reading list to tracking your reading goal and…
Chelsea claim second Champions League win
Chelsea’s Kadeisha Buchanan celebrates scoring their side’s second goal of the game during a Women’s Champions League soccer match. Photo: AFP PARIS: Goals from Ellie Carpenter and Kadeisha Buchanan were enough to give Chelsea their second win in this season’s Women’s Champions League on Wednesday to join Arsenal and Lyon at the top of the…
Microsoft hits 10 quarters of record-breaking revenue in a row
Whatever the future of AI might be, the current situation is still very good for Microsoft. The tech giant reported yet another quarterly revenue record on Wednesday: $92.3 billion, a 19% increase over the year-ago quarter. Microsoft has now reported record-breaking revenue for 10 quarters in a row. Image Credits:TechCrunch This is profitable revenue, too….
The Curator: Investment jewellery gifts they’ll treasure for years – National
By Adriana Monachino The Curator Team Posted October 28, 2026 11:00 pm Updated October 28, 2026 11:21 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size The Curator independently decides what topics and products we feature. When you purchase an item through our links, we may earn a commission. Promotions and products…
NVIDIA Releases Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe: An Open 30B MoE Model for 40-Language Transcription with ~4B Active Parameters
NVIDIA has released Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, an open-weights speech LLM built for transcription. One model handles 40 languages and recordings up to 1 hour. A text instruction picks the output style for each request. Options include verbatim, written form, speaker-attributed, contextual and translated output. For developers, it can replace separate…
Russ Wyatt voted out of Winnipeg city council, Lora Meseman to represent Transcona – Winnipeg
Russ Wyatt, the Winnipeg city councillor facing multiple sexual assault charges, will not return to city hall as the representative for Transcona. Wyatt received just under 11 per cent of the vote and finished a distant fourth place, according to the unofficial results of Wednesday’s municipal election. Lora Meseman takes over the role from the…
Microsoft recorded $10 billion in revenue from OpenAI
Microsoft generated $10 billion in revenue from commercial arrangements with OpenAI, including revenue-sharing payments, in the quarter ended September 30, the company said in a regulatory filing on Wednesday. That represents nearly 11% of Microsoft’s total quarterly revenue of $92.3 billion, highlighting the enormous financial ties that remain between the two companies even as they…
Oilers snap skid with 4-0 win over Flames
By Shane Jones The Canadian Press Posted October 28, 2026 11:29 pm 2 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size EDMONTON – Tristan Jarry made 24 stops to earn the shutout as the Edmonton Oilers snapped a two-game losing skid, defeating the rival Calgary Flames 4-0 on Wednesday. Mathieu Joseph, Mattias Ekholm,…
Google expands AI Search ads globally as core ad growth slows
Google is bringing ads in its AI-powered Search experiences to international markets, betting that generative AI can open up new revenue opportunities even as growth in its core search advertising business slows. The announcement came Wednesday during Alphabet’s third-quarter earnings call, as the company reported $127.6 billion in revenue, up 25% year over year. But…
Barnes scores 28 as Raptors rout Magic 129-99
By John Chidley-Hill The Canadian Press Posted October 28, 2026 10:08 pm Updated October 28, 2026 10:18 pm 2 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size TORONTO – Scottie Barnes led all scorers with 28 points as the Toronto Raptors routed the Orlando Magic 129-99 on Wednesday without superstar Kawhi Leonard in…
Microsoft just shared Azure’s actual revenue in dollars: $33.2 billion
Microsoft has never disclosed Azure’s quarterly revenue in dollars. It has typically only shared a growth percentage or described revenue dollar milestones in vague ways. But on Wednesday, when it posted another record-breaking quarter, it reported that Azure brought in a healthy $33.2 billion in revenue for the July-September quarter, up 48% from a year earlier….