An auto parts business in southern Saskatchewan says it is among more than a dozen transportation equipment companies across the province that have fallen victim to a widespread credit card scam. Leanne Tuntland-Wiebe, the owner and manager of the Great West Auto Electric in Assiniboia, Sask., says her store lost around $20,000 earlier this year…
NVIDIA has released NemotronLabs VoiceChat 11B, an open 11B end-to-end speech-to-speech model for real-time, full-duplex conversation. Instead of chaining ASR, an LLM, and TTS, it performs streaming speech understanding and speech generation in one unified network. That removes the multi-model orchestration and API handoffs a cascaded stack requires, and cuts end-to-end latency: measured smooth turn-taking…
Descrease article font size Increase article font size A man is dead in Hamilton, Ont., after police say an altercation occurred in the parking lot of a grocery store. The 21-year-old man was found with stab wounds early Sunday by a taxi driver on Main Street West near Frid Street. The driver called 911, then…
A group that represents numerous First Nations across British Columbia is calling on Ottawa and Alberta’s government to halt efforts to advance the West Coast pipeline, saying expanding the oil industry will accelerate climate change and disasters. “The destructive and disastrous consequences of expanding fossil fuel production extend far beyond any single territory,” the Union…
Descrease article font size Increase article font size A part of southwestern Ontario saw two confirmed tornadoes on Saturday after the region saw severe storms move through the area. The Northern Tornadoes Project which responds to reported tornadoes and determines if they touched down said late Saturday that one had touched down near Lindsay, Ont.,…
Situational Awareness may have had to sell off the majority of its public portfolio last month, but the AI-focused hedge fund is still making some big bets. This week, the fund invested $400 million into Source Foundry, a startup founded by Stanford researchers aiming to make chip manufacturing faster and cheaper, according to The Wall…
As people flee from growing wildfires in parts of British Columbia, the federal government says it has approved a request for assistance to provide shelter and accommodations for those who’ve been forced from their homes. Emergency Management Minister Eleanor Olszewski said in a statement she’s tasked federal officials to work with the province to ensure…
In January, Edmonton resident Lisa Kruy started going to Ruth’s Pantry for groceries. “For the past few years, myself and my husband, we’ve been struggling,” Kruy explained. With the high cost of living — and only one income — putting food on the table has been a challenge. Then Kruy got connected with Ruth’s Pantry…
Samiullah sees slim hopes but backs spirited effort against England, India and Wales KARACHI: Pakistan’s national hockey team on Sunday departed for the Netherlands to compete in the FIH Men’s Hockey World Cup, returning to the global showpiece after missing the 2023 edition in India. The four-time world champions face a demanding Pool D campaign…
Programming with Claude Code will quickly require even much less human oversight, as Anthropic says it’s making auto mode the default for Professional, Max, and Staff accounts, beginning on August 14. The corporate first unveiled a check model of auto mode in March, pitching it as a approach to steadiness velocity and management. As Anthropic…
