A Halifax-area clothing brand is feeling the impact of the ongoing trade war between Canada and the United States and is being forced to make changes to how it does business. Fairechild creates outerwear from sustainable fabric made of recycled plastic bottles and produced by a German company. The small-batch operation has all its garments…
Australia’s Usman Khawaja acknowledges the crowd as he walks off the field at stumps after scoring 126 runs not out. — Reuters/File SYDNEY: Former Australian cricketer Usman Khawaja said in a new autobiography excerpted on Saturday that discussions about ball-tampering during Australia’s 2018 tour of South Africa were more widespread within the team than Cricket…
Sequoia this week announced a broad overhaul in a memo posted to X, a move that includes closing its London office and shutting down its scout program. Observers warn that it would be a mistake to read too much into the London closure, since the British capital has a thriving AI scene. On the other…
Descrease article font size Increase article font size CALGARY – Cutter Gauthier extended his goal streak to five games with the game-winner on Friday night as the Anaheim Ducks came back for a 5-3 victory over the Calgary Flames. Jeff Malott, Tristan Luneau, Leo Carlsson and Nikita Nesterenko, into an empty net, also scored for…
Fox has completed its $22 billion acquisition of Roku, wrapping up one of the biggest media deals in recent years and giving the company a major boost in the streaming and connected TV space. Announced Friday, the deal brings the streaming company founded in 2002 formally under Fox’s ownership. Fox says the combined company now…
For decades, a distinctive castle overlooking Highway 97 in Peachland has served as a reminder of one of the Okanagan’s most colourful characters. Eddy Haymour died Wednesday at the age of 96, leaving behind a remarkable story of ambition, controversy and a dream that never quite came to fruition. For many locals, his name is…
Crusoe, an eight-year-old, Denver-based data center developer recently valued at $30.9 billion, confirmed Friday it has sold an unfinished data center project in southeastern Wyoming to Google. Google, which Crusoe had tried and failed to land as a customer for the project, is taking over the development after reportedly raising concerns about its cost and…
A B.C. tribunal ruling has denied a second penalty for a social media platform for not deleting intimate images. Last year, the tribunal ruled that X must pay a $100,000 penalty for not deleting an intimate image after a protection order was issued requiring the social media platform to delete the image shared via an…
Open-weight artificial intelligence models are now almost as capable of hacking into computer networks as the best closed ones, according to new research that heralds a much-anticipated turning point in the cybersecurity landscape. Vals, a company that measures AI capabilities, set out to test how well different AI models could carry out complex, multi-step network…
The United States Treasury Department has slapped sanctions on eight Canadian businesses for allegedly helping to evade sanctions on Iran’s government. The department says it sanctioned money services businesses in British Columbia and Ontario in co-ordination with Fintrac, Canada’s anti-money laundering watchdog. The U.S. Treasury said several of the entities being sanctioned also worked with…
