You’ve had a long day. You finally get home, fling the door open, plonk on the couch, and let out a big sigh. In the corner of your eye, you notice your mushroom lamp perk up. Its microphone must have heard you come in. Its head raises to reveal round, animated eyes, and a little…
By Wolfgang Depner The Canadian Press Posted October 22, 2026 8:25 am 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size British Columbia NDP Leader David Eby campaigns in Vancouver and Richmond Thursday after wrapping his swing through the vote-rich city of Surrey with a rally. Hundreds of people attended the gathering near…
CHRISTCHURCH: Belligerent batting by Sanju Samson saw India chase 226 for victory against New Zealand in Christchurch on Thursday in a rematch of the T20 World Cup final. Opener Samson made 67 from 33 balls as India chased down their highest-ever T20 total and secured a four-wicket win with two balls remaining. India take a…
Just two days after the U.S. ordered federal civilian agencies to remove DeepSeek’s AI technology from their systems over security concerns, the Chinese AI lab has raised about $15 billion, about 100 billion yuan, one of the biggest funding rounds in the country, Bloomberg reported. Potential investors include Chinese battery maker CATL and Tencent, the…
When a snap election is called, at least one side would normally be prepared. But that hasn’t been the case in British Columbia, resulting in a provincial election campaign like no other, political watchers say. The campaign has seen interim B.C. Conservative leader Lorne Doerkson going without media availabilities on several days, including on Tuesday…
Minister of Sports of Saudi Arabia, Abdulaziz bin Turki Al-Faisal celebrates after qualifying for the FIFA World Cup 2026. — Reuters The Asian Cup scheduled for January in Saudi Arabia could be moved back a year to 2028 “if we need to”, the continent’s top football official said, following a series of Houthi attacks on…
Private equity giant Blackstone is putting itself at the center of the AI boom, firm veteran Jas Khaira discussed last week on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt. It is writing checks via various strategies, ranging from offering massive loans to data centers to investing in frontier AI models and applications. Earlier this year, the firm launched…
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Vancouver-Yaletown is a provincial riding located in the region. This riding is currently represented by MLA who first took office in . collected votes, winning per cent of the vote in the 2024 B.C. provincial election. Just two years after the previous election, B.C. residents have cast…
Sri Lankan opener Pathum Nissanka runs after playing a shot during a match against Pakistan at Dubai International Stadium in the UAE. — Reuters/File Sri Lanka’s opener Pathum Nissanka will miss upcoming ODI tri-series against hosts Pakistan and England after failing to obtain medical clearance to resume playing, the board confirmed on Thursday. Nissanka sustained…
In this tutorial, we use Whistle, Cactus Compute’s speech-to-text model, a 16.9 MB file that runs on a CPU, transcribes seven languages, and returns word timestamps and probabilities. The model card claims it beats Whisper base on LibriSpeech; we test it on seeded test-clean and test-other samples, comparing Whistle with Whisper tiny and base on…
