Confirming earlier reports, Meta announced its first pair of camera-free AI glasses, the clunkily named Ray-Ban Meta Audio, at its Connect 2026 conference on Wednesday. Designed to combat criticism around the more malicious use cases for AI glasses, which saw them nicknamed “pervert glasses” by some, the new devices will be audio-only, offering the ability…
A viral post on the social media platform X this week shared a claim that mail-in voting for the Alberta referendum on Oct. 19 is “open to anybody” without verification of whether applicants live in the province. Other social media users posted screenshots suggesting they had been able to apply for a mail-in ballot using…
NVIDIA has released Nemotron 3 Diarization, an open-weight speaker diarization model on Hugging Face. It answers one question about any conversation: who spoke when. The 100M-parameter model tracks up to 8 speakers, including when voices overlap. One checkpoint handles both offline recordings and real-time streaming. Is it deployable? Yes. The weights are released under the…
Several Winnipeg-area groups are calling on the next city council to increase transparency and accountability by having its water and sewer rates approved by an independent provincial regulator. This movement, dubbed the “This PUB’s For You Pledge,” is comprised of Manitoba-based associations. Those backing it called for the next batch of elected City of Winnipeg…
China’s Yu Zidi competes in the final of the 400m Individual Medley swimming event during the 2026 Asian Games at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre. Photo: AFP BEIJING: China’s Yu Zidi made history last year aged 12 when she became the youngest-ever medallist at the swimming world championships. Now a teenager, she is dominating the Asian…
As US president Donald Trump and Chinese president Xi Jinping prepare to meet in Washington for a state dinner at the White House on Thursday, AI has become a top priority. Tech executives from OpenAI and Nvidia have confirmed their attendance at the dinner, as a number of key agenda items are on the table….
The family of a Saskatchewan high school football player is calling on schools to use better helmets after he suffered a head injury during a game. Hunter Gronick, a Grade 12 student at Greenall High School in Balgonie, Sask., experienced a head injury during his Sept. 10 football game. His Balgonie Greenall Griffins were away,…
Jacks’ maiden five-wicket haul and Brook’s 67 help the hosts take a 1-0 lead in the series England’s Will Jacks celebrates the wicket of Sri Lanka’s Asitha Fernando with Ben Duckett. Photo: REUTERS LONDON: Will Jacks starred with both bat and ball as England overwhelmed Sri Lanka by 89 runs in the first one-day international…
Google has released Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS, 2 new text-to-speech models in its Gemini Audio family. Google calls them its most expressive audio generation models yet. Flash TTS targets creative direction and character voices. Flash-Lite TTS targets high-volume, cost-efficient production. Both let developers direct delivery line by line using natural…
Descrease article font size Increase article font size A six-year-old girl has set a new women’s world record by completing Rubik’s cubes at an average pace of under five seconds per cube. Lian Yunzhi, from China, broke the record earlier this month with an average time of 4.52 seconds at a World Cube Association-certified competition…
