Intro Now that Samsung has completed its flagship rollout for the Galaxy S24 series, it’s time to pay attention to the mid-range lineup, which just got refreshed with the Galaxy A55 5G and the Galaxy A35 5G. Those successors to the previous mid-range lineup are now official, and unlike the Galaxy A54 and Galaxy A34 … Read more
Relative to the 496 billion Canadian dollars the federal government spent last year, the amounts are small. But this week’s revelations surrounding millions of dollars in potentially fraudulent billings by subcontractors, along with the continuing ArriveCAN app scandal, show what a big mess developing software can be for the government. Even after an extensive investigation, … Read more
Intro Samsung has just introduced the Galaxy A55 5G officially, making it the latest and possibly highest-ranking Samsung mid-ranger so far. Succeeding the Galaxy A54, this new phone introduces core updates to the mid-range formula that doesn’t redefine the experience, but will undoubtedly make the A55 5G a phone that would sell like hotcakes. That … Read more
A federal judge in California on Monday dismissed X’s lawsuit against a nonprofit organization that studies hate speech online, ruling that the social media company’s case was designed to punish researchers for speaking freely about the social media platform, formerly known as Twitter. X sued the Center for Countering Digital Hate in July in U.S. … Read more
Galaxy A55 5G Intro Samsung has just announced its latest mid-range champs, with the more well-equipped and high-end of the two being, of course, the Galaxy A55 5G (Yes, Samsung still insists on putting “5G” after the name). This new generation comes with a few upgrades sprinkled throughout, which, combined together, manage to accumulates meaningful … Read more
As a Tunisian human rights activist in the 2000s, Amira Yahyaoui staged protests and blogged about government corruption. In interviews, she described being beaten by the police. When she was 18, she said, she was kidnapped from the street, dropped off at the Algerian border and placed in exile for several years. Ms. Yahyaoui’s compelling … Read more
Intro Samsung has already kicked off 2024 with a bang, launching the Galaxy S24 series earlier than usual. It’s by no means ready to call it quits for the first half of the year, though, as it has a full roster of mid-range devices yet to update. First and likely most exciting among those is … Read more
For years, the U.S. investors who backed ByteDance, the Chinese internet company that owns TikTok, have wrestled with the complexities of owning a piece of a geopolitically fraught social media app. Now it’s gotten even more complicated. A bill to force ByteDance to sell TikTok is winding its way through the Senate after sailing through … Read more
iPad Pro (2024) Intro It has been a good couple of years since we’ve seen an iPad Pro upgrade, but to be fair — we are in no hurry. The M2-equipped iPad Pro from 2022 is still incredibly good at doing… what Apple allows it to do. Yeah, the hardware is killer, but iPadOS is still … Read more
Let me say it right away: the Garmin Forerunner 165 is the Garmin watch most people should buy in 2024. Of course, Garmin has made some compromises to make the Forerunner 165 so affordable, but what are they and is any one of them a deal-breaker? Read on to find out! As most recent Garmin … Read more