Four years after Greyhound abruptly left Canada, a German company is banking on Canadian travellers still having plenty of appetite for the good old-fashioned bus. Flixbus, established in Munich in 2013, offers low-cost bus service in a distinctive, bright green package. The company, which operates in more than 40 countries, started offering intercity bus trips throughout…
A B.C.-based startup that makes artificial intelligence (AI)-run mushroom harvesting robots says a recent $40-million investment will help the company remain at the cutting edge of autonomous agricultural technology, at a time when the industry is facing widespread labour shortages. 4AG (pronounced “forage”) Robotics is based in the rural lakeside city of Salmon Arm, along the…
Nvidia and AMD agreed to share 15 per cent of their revenues from chip sales to China with the U.S. government, a U.S. government official said on Sunday, in an unusual move likely to faze American companies. U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration halted the sale of advanced computer chips to China in April over national security…
Skydance-owned Paramount will become the exclusive U.S. home of Ultimate Fighting Championship under a seven-year streaming deal valued at about $7.7 billion US, the first major strategic move by the newly merged media giant under new CEO David Ellison. Starting next year, Paramount+ will carry the complete U.S. slate of 13 numbered UFC events and…
Ford Motor Co. will invest nearly $2 billion US retooling a Kentucky factory to produce electric vehicles (EV) that it says will be more affordable, more profitable to build, and will out compete rival models. The automaker’s top executive unveiled the new EV strategy at Ford’s Louisville Assembly Plant which, after producing gas-powered vehicles for…
AOL is discontinuing its dial-up service, which helped millions of households connect to the web during the internet’s formative years and was instantly recognizable for its beep-laden, scratch-heavy ring tone in the 1990s and early 2000s. The company, which once dominated as the world’s largest internet provider, confirmed the move to CBC News on Sunday, saying…
WestJet says some personal data including information about travel documents such as passports was stolen in a cyberattack earlier this year, but credit and debit card numbers as well as user passwords were not compromised. In a note to customers, WestJet says the personal information taken varies from person to person but may include name,…
A B.C. billionaire who wants to buy some Hudson’s Bay leases says landlord claims that she won’t be able to run a successful business in their spaces are “misguided.” In new court documents filed overnight Wednesday, Ruby Liu says she is prepared to do what is necessary to make her venture successful and, if it…
Some news publishers say the AI-generated summaries that now top many Google search results are resulting in less people actually reading the news — and experts are still flagging concerns about the summaries’ accuracy. When Google rolled out its AI Overview feature last year, its mistakes — including one suggestion to use glue to make…
