American Kate Douglass celebrates her 50m freestyle world file on the Pan Pacific Championships in Irvine, California. Picture: AFP/FILE LOS ANGELES: Kate Douglass shattered the ladies’s 50m freestyle world file on Saturday, clocking 23.49sec within the heats on the Pan Pacific Championships to set a tantalizing showdown with former record-holder Gretchen Walsh. Douglass improved on…
MiniMax releases MiniMax H3, a general-purpose multimodal generation model. MiniMax H3 is not a text-to-video model with add-ons. MiniMax describes it as a general-purpose multimodal generation model that reads text, images, video, and audio as one unified context and returns video with native stereo sound. The mains specs include: 2K output, 4–15 seconds, integer durations…
One person has died following a fire at a home in Winnipeg on Monday, paramedics say. Emergency services were called to a single-family home in the 1000 block of Fleet Avenue around 10:20 a.m. after receiving reports of a fire. Get breaking National news Get breaking Canada news delivered to your inbox as it happens…
Anthropic has released Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1, three months after the Fable 5 line shipped in June 2026. The two are the same underlying model behind different safeguard layers. Fable 5.1 is generally available as claude-fable-5-1; Mythos 5.1 stays restricted to vetted organizations. Both carry a 1M token context window and 128K…
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Two B.C. pro-Khalistan activists say police have warned them of threats to their lives as they continue campaigning for an independent Sikh state. Manjinder Singh of Abbotsford organizes a monthly rally outside of Vancouver’s Indian consulate and said RCMP issued him a duty-to-warn notice last week. Narinder…
American Brandon Nakashima celebrates after defeating top-seeded defending champion Alex de Minaur of Australia within the Washington Open quarter-finals. Photograph: AFP WASHINGTON: Defending champion Alex de Minaur and second-seeded Ben Shelton have been bounced out of the Washington Open on Friday as upsets marked the quarter-finals of the mixed ATP and WTA occasion. Prime-seeded Aussie…
He’s been dancing to his own beat for years at a busy intersection in Sherwood Park. Now, the 21-year-old curbside performer has been told to park it by police. If you’ve driven in Sherwood Park, the street corner at Baseline Road and Sherwood Drive probably looks a little empty. That’s because it’s missing its dancing…
With at least two more tornadoes touching down in Alberta this week, the total number of tornadoes in the province so far this year rises t0 23 — making it an “exceptionally busy” tornado season, according to Dave Sills, director of the Northern Tornadoes Project, based out of Western University in London, Ont. Across the…
Mohammad Amir looks on during the 2019 Cricket World Cup group stage match between Pakistan and Bangladesh at Lord’s Cricket Ground in London on July 5, 2019. — AFP Former Pakistan pacer Mohammad Amir has dismissed speculation about a possible return to the national team for next year’s ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup in South…
World Cup ultimate is South America vs Europe, ardour vs precision, a match threaded with curious private historical past FINAL COUNTDOWN: US President Donald Trump and FIFA President Gianni Infantino stand subsequent to the FIFA World Cup Trophy, as they attend a FIFA reception at Trump Tower in New York Metropolis, US. PHOTO: REUTERS NEW…
