Bell remains fastest provider, Telus dips in performance: Ookla’s Q2 2023 mobile and broadband analysis
Bell remained the fastest mobile and fixed broadband operator in Canada, while Telus tumbled in several categories, Ookla’s Q2 2023 mobile and broadband analysis, released today, found. The speeds were measured by Speedtest. Download Median mobile download speed for both Bell (116.59 Mbps) and Rogers (93.85 Mbps) increased from last
Read MoreBluesky is under fire for allowing usernames with racial slurs
Bluesky’s moderation woes continue as users threaten to leave the site in protest of its failure to flag slurs in account usernames. Many users — particularly Black users — are frustrated that Bluesky hasn’t apologized for allowing racial slurs to slip through its moderation tools even though they violate the
Read MoreRice Robotics picks up $7M, powers SoftBank’s office delivery
In the crowded enterprise robotics space, the ability to secure key clients is a crucial differentiator for companies. In the case of Hong Kong-based Rice Robotics, the important order has come from SoftBank. Since January 2021, Rice’s robots, with their cute, cartoonish blinking eyes, have been delivering 7-Eleven products to
Read MorePeacock to raise its subscription prices on August 17
Peacock is delivering bad news to its subscribers tonight. Beginning at 12 a.m. EDT, the streamer is notifying existing customers that it’s raising its subscription prices on August 17. The change will affect new customers immediately. This will be the first time Peacock has experienced a price hike since its
Read MoreIsometric taps $25M to build a registry and science platform focused on carbon removal
Carbon removal — technology that aims to remove carbon emissions from the environment by breaking it down and turning it into something less harmful — saw a big splash of attention last year after Stripe, Shopify, Meta, Alphabet and more collectively agreed to pump $1 billion into funding removal startups.
Read MoreUK’s approach to AI safety lacks credibility, report warns
The UK government has been trying to cultivate an image of itself as an international mover-and-shaker in the nascent field of AI safety in recent weeks — dropping a flashy announcement of an upcoming summit on the topic last month, along with a pledge to spend £100M on a foundational
Read MoreTikTok is now supporting passkeys on iPhone
Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge The next TikTok trend is passkeys on iPhones. The social media app is announcing support for the logins that try to make password-stealing phishing attacks impossible by allowing users to sign in with either Touch ID or Face ID instead of entering passwords.
Read MoreTesla directors pay $735M to settle claims they overpaid themselves
Tesla’s directors will return $735 million to the company to settle claims from shareholders that they excessively overpaid themselves, according to a Monday court filing. The settlement concludes a 2020 lawsuit from a retirement fund that holds Tesla stock. The Police and Fire Retirement System of the City of Detroit
Read MoreSearching for proper nouns
Suppose you want to find all the proper nouns in a document. You could grep for every word that starts with a capital letter with something like grep 'b[A-Z]w+' but this would return the first word of each sentence in addition to the words you’re after. You could grep for
Read MoreForrester assesses priority cloud trends and strategies in 2023
As U.S. hyperscalers began to build data center regions in Canada nearly 7 years ago, the scope of cloud adoption here exploded. Forrester’s State of the Cloud in Canada, 2023 report indicates that Canadian companies went from relying solely on local options, U.S. based data centers, or private cloud environments
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