Transit performed under intense pressure, there weren’t any security incidents, and thousands of tourists had a favourable view of the city, enough for Toronto officials to call its FIFA World Cup hosting duties a success, even with several data points remaining unavailable. More than a dozen civic and provincial employees from Toronto Fire to Metrolinx…
The UAE’s non-oil trade increased by 13.1% year over year to 1.94 trillion dirhams ($527 billion) during the first six months of 2026, according to newly released figures. This marks the first time the country’s non-oil trade has approached the 2 trillion-dirham mark in a six-month period. According to WAM, the trade value was 39.6%…
Alibaba’s Tongyi Lab has released Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS, a production-oriented text-to-speech (TTS) system. The model ships in two variants from the same lineage. Flash targets real-time interaction. Plus targets high-quality generation. Both are delivered as hosted models through Alibaba Cloud Model Studio, not as downloadable weights. The release focuses on four things developers hit in production: broader…
The cryptocurrency market has shown a minor resurgence today (July 20), yet the best-performing asset (from the top 100 club) isn’t Bitcoin (BTC) or Ethereum (ETH), but Pump.fun’s native token, PUMP. Meanwhile, some believe this may not be just a temporary price spike but the beginning of a much more substantial rally. What comes next?…
By Bill Graveland The Canadian Press Posted July 20, 2026 5:40 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size A Parks Canada official in charge of visitor safety said the avalanche danger was rated moderate and didn’t need updating on the day of a fatal snow slide. “I reviewed the reports…
LAHORE: The water level in the Chenab River is likely to rise significantly over the next couple of days following ongoing rains in catchment areas of Indian-occupied Kashmir and fresh spells of heavy rain in parts of Punjab. “At the moment, the Chenab River is flowing in medium flood. Its flow may surge and enter…
First-ever tent pegging competition featured more than 100 pedigree horses and riders from across the United Kingdom and Pakistan. — Reporter LONDON: The first-ever tent pegging competition was held in London, featuring more than 100 pedigree horses and riders from across the United Kingdom and Pakistan. Several Pakistani and Kashmiri Nezabazi groups travelled from Bradford,…
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is one of the basic building blocks of AI interoperability, giving AI models a secure way to access external data sources and services. It’s the plumbing that lets a chatbot reach into your calendar, your database, or your internal tools, instead of engineers building custom pipes for every connection. Next…
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has sued crypto mining investment business Mining Automatic and its founder, Zan Shaikh, alleging they raised $22 million from investors while spending only about 13% of the funds on mining operations. Mining Automatic was operated by Massachusetts-based Bright Vision Distribution LLC, which the SEC said raised the money…
Saskatchewan Roughriders captain Jayden Dalke was driving on the wrong side of the highway Saturday night when he was involved in a fatal head-on collision, according to Saskatchewan RCMP. The 30-year-old linebacker died in a car crash on Highway 11 between Lumsden and Regina on Saturday around 9 p.m., police said. The other driver, a 22-year-old from Regina,…
