Google Gemini personal intelligence is available in Canada starting today, and the thing it knows about you when switched on is genuinely surprising. It reads Gmail. It scans photos. It tracks YouTube and search history. It found a licence plate number in someone’s camera roll and used it to answer a question about tires. It is off by default. That was a deliberate choice and it is worth understanding why.

There is a completely different kind of tech story also in this episode. On the far side of the moon, out of contact with Earth, Jeremy Hansen shared maple cream cookies with his crew. He had submitted that request to NASA a year before launch. There is something specific about a Canadian astronaut choosing that moment, in that location, to pass around something with a maple leaf on it.

Dyson has a handheld fan coming in May. Ninety kilometres per hour. Six hours of battery. One hundred and thirty dollars. Sometimes the tech story of the week is just a very good fan.

Topics: Google Gemini personal intelligence, Jeremy Hansen Artemis mission, AI privacy, Dyson portable fan, Canadian space agency

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Originally aired on2026-04-14