The federal government is touting development at a northeastern Saskatchewan mine as a success story in the country’s bid to strengthen domestic production and supply of critical minerals amidst tumultuous trade conditions with the United States. Energy and Natural Resources Minister Tim Hodgson spoke in Saskatoon on Wednesday at the offices of Eldorado Gold, which…
Third-seeded Jessica Pegula celebrates her victory over Sofia Kenin in the second round of the US Open. Photo: AFP NEW YORK: World number three Jessica Pegula and former champion Daniil Medvedev raced into the third round of the US Open on Wednesday with straight-sets victories. Pegula needed just 56 minutes to trounce Sofia Kenin, the…
Perplexity has open sourced Lily, the local inference engine behind Hybrid Compute in Perplexity Computer. It is a single-process runtime: a Rust layer loads the checkpoint and drives the generation loop, an OpenAI-compatible chat-completions API streams tokens, and hand-written Metal kernels execute the model. Neither PyTorch nor MLX sits in the execution path. Lily is…
A Calgary aid worker is helping deliver emergency assistance in Nepal as international relief efforts ramp up following the devastating earthquake that struck the country last week. Darren Tosh, a response manager with Samaritan’s Purse Canada, travelled to Nepal two days after the disaster to help coordinate aid deliveries to communities affected by the quake….
Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Mohsin Naqvi on Wednesday defended the sweeping changes to the national Test squad after two heavy defeats by England, saying the overhaul was necessary to improve performances ahead of the third Test in Birmingham. “I have never been afraid of criticism, and I never will be,” Naqvi said in an interview…
Supply Hero’s board has signed off on Uber’s $15 billion takeover supply and really useful shareholders approve the deal, which might create one of many largest on-demand meals supply platforms on this planet. After reviewing the supply, Supply Hero’s supervisory and administration boards said it was in one of the best pursuits of the corporate,…
At the sentencing hearing for a 16-year-old boy who pleaded guilty to the first-degree murder of tow-truck driver Sulakshan Sevasingam in an alleged murder-for-hire plot, a chilling cellphone video was played in court Wednesday that captured an unknown caller allegedly giving directions to a group of teens. Assistant Crown prosecutor Sharna Reid told the court…
If you have handed over your driver’s license, passport, or other form of identity document to verify your information in the real world, like at a bar, a weed store, or when booking a car rental, there’s a good chance it’s now been stolen in a suspected massive data breach. That’s according to a jaw-dropping…
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Quebec’s major political parties focused on government spending and public services Tuesday as campaigning entered its seventh day, with party leaders outlining competing visions on bureaucracy, housing affordability, education and infrastructure. The Coalition Avenir Québec and Quebec Conservative Party both argued the provincial government should be streamlined,…
MapQuest’s unlikely comeback just got even bigger. On Tuesday, the “OG” mapping application (and one that many thought no longer existed!) became the No. 1 overall app on the U.S. App Store, up from No. 8 on Monday. The surge in new downloads was inspired by MapQuest’s refusal to rename Lake Ontario as “Lake America,”…
