A Montreal woman who lost both her hands and both legs after a rare bacterial infection triggered septic shock is sharing her story in hopes of raising awareness about the dangers and warning signs of sepsis. Cammeilla Ramdass, a 43-year-old esthetician and former model, said her ordeal began in January after she sought medical attention…
Prince William and Kate Middleton were in a celebratory mood after their eldest child, Prince George, officially hit the teen age and celebrated their 13th birthday on July 22, with official photos and a video released by Kensington Palace. Following tradition, senior members of the Royal Family – that’s King Charles III and Queen Camilla…
Players of Pakistan and England shake hands after their match of ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2026 at Pallekele International Cricket Stadium, Kandy, Sri Lanka, February 24, 2026. — Reuters Pakistan cricket team will tour England next year ahead of the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup 2027 for a five-match One-Day International (ODI) series, the…
Tokenization is the one part of the language modeling stack that almost nobody profiles. Gigatoken, released by Marcel Rød (a PhD student from Stanford) under an MIT license, argues that this was a mistake. The library encodes text at gigabytes per second on a single machine, against baselines that are…
STABLE follows suit in terms of daily gains. However, there’s a 360% price pump from one strange altcoin on CoinGecko. Bitcoin’s price ascent from earlier this week could not continue in the past 36 hours or so, and the asset even dipped towards $65,000, where it found some support. Most larger-cap alts have remained sideways…
Embattled Progressive Conservative MPP Hardeep Grewal is facing an election finance complaint as the opposition accuses him of failing to declare campaign advertising in a newspaper his family owns. Grewal unseated the NDP’s Gurratan Singh in 2022 in Brampton East, winning the riding again in the 2025 snap election. But the Ontario NDP alleges that…
Pakistan’s National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) announced a new initiative to make identity document services more accessible for millions of Pakistanis living in Saudi Arabiaaiming to spare residents the burden of traveling long distances for documentation. According to the announcement, NADRA’s mobile registration team will travel to Saudi Arabia as part of the initiative,…
Open speech recognition stopped being a Whisper monoculture some time in the last twelve months. In March 2026 Cohere released Transcribe, a 2B Apache 2.0 model that took the top of the Hugging Face Open ASR Leaderboard at 5.42% average word error rate. Five weeks later IBM shipped Granite Speech 4.1 2B at 5.33%. Since…
Coinbase plans to expand its Singapore office from 150 to about 200 employees by the end of 2026 as it grows its presence in the Lion City. Source link
Canadian authorities have disrupted four “violent extremist attack plots against Jewish targets” since the start of the Israel-Hamas conflict in 2023, says an intelligence report obtained by Global News that warns of continued threats to the community. The June 29 report by the federal government’s Integrated Threat Assessment Centre said that each of the plots…
