The bot takeover of the web is not one thing. Greg Fish of Cyberpunk Survival Guide breaks it into parts. Scrapers steal content, fill it with ads, and send bots to click the ads. That is click fraud and it…
Good News Tuesday opens with Doug Bush, 62 years old, walking 70,000 steps at a gym in Edmonton. Ten thousand for every year of his life. Google says that’s 11 hours and 40 minutes of continuous walking. Then there is…
Instagram Plus is being tested now in Mexico, Japan, and the Philippines. Three dollars a month buys you longer stories, priority placement, anonymous story viewing, and the ability to see who rewatched your content. Features that either didn’t exist or…
Good News Tuesday opens with a homeowner in a former church rectory circling the house waiting for a barbecue that may have been delivered next door. The address confusion dates back to a rezoning in 1904 that nobody has fully…
Calgary rental prices have dropped. Two months free rent, six months free parking, all utilities included. And it still is not enough because the average two-bedroom in Calgary runs between 700 and 830 square feet. A study by lighting brand…
F1 engineer Bernie Collins spent years on the Aston Martin pit wall making the calls that shape race outcomes. Her book, How to Win a Grand Prix, covers what actually happens before a driver ever gets credit for it. Also,…
Humanoid robots have arrived at Toyota Canada’s Woodstock, Ontario factory, one of the largest automotive facilities in North America. Toyota assessed every model available and chose Digit, a short purple robot with oversized lamp eyes made by Agility Robotics. The…
Canada’s sovereign investment fund is the latest answer to a question the country keeps getting wrong. While federal officials announced a port expansion in Montreal, a bridge sustaining the Port of Vancouver collapsed because no one had maintained it. Matt…
John Garrett was the broadcaster who answered a desperate call with 20 minutes to airtime and asked no questions. He passed away suddenly this week. Bob Addison tells it straight. It was 8:45, the show started at 9:06, and Addison…
Spring yard tips and a cybercrime bounty program make for an unlikely pairing, but both come down to the same idea: things you already have access to are more useful than you think. Your Orange Peel Is Working Harder Than…
What makes you feel at home is the question that opened a conversation this week, and it started with a priest named Father Paul from Tanzania standing in a park with the sun on his face saying, today I can…
The NASA Artemis Lego set keeps selling out, and the conversation it opened is about something bigger than a model on a shelf. The hosts ask what happened to science as something you bring home and do yourself. The specific…
Online shopping fraud in Canada hit approximately $640 million in 2024, and Bruce Winder says the vector is not always an obvious scam. Sometimes it is a website that looks exactly like the one you meant to visit. A convincing…
Diesel fuel prices are already painful for Canadian truck operators, and Dan McTeague says the number people are watching at the pump is not the number that tells the real story. The supply that kept prices stable is gone and…
Car dealerships have survived a hundred years of disruption, but Lorraine Sommerfeld says their reputations have taken a serious hit since the pandemic and consumers are increasingly choosing to just stay away. The frustration is not really about the car.…
