Skip to main content / Commissioners approved a new policy statement putting gig companies on notice Sep 15, 2022, 8:08 PM UTC | FTC Chairwoman Lina Khan glances at SEC Chairman Gary Gensler during a House Financial Services Committee hearing. Photo by Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images The Federal Trade Commission voted today to put gig economy companies on notice, promising to protect gig workers from unfair contracts, pay, and hours. ...read more

Toronto Metropolitan University has officially opened its Red Bull Gaming Hub, a dedicated centre that aims to grow the Toronto video game industry. Located in university’s The Creative School on 80 Gould Street, the Red Bull Gaming Hub will focus on three core pillars: video game design, virtual production and esports broadcasting. The space will be home to classes featuring leading-edge curriculum to help students pursue careers in the gaming industry, as well as extracurricular acti ...read more

Australian owners of OPPO’s Find X5 Pro flagship phones are starting to receive the official Android 13 (Color OS 13) update, just weeks after the beta version was released. Oppo Find X5 Pro owners in Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia and France should also receive the Color OS 13 final version update from today. Oppo Find X5 owners in the United Arab Emirates and France should experience the same. As one of the first operating systems based on the newly released Android 13, ColorO ...read more

Skip to main content / Commissioners approved a new policy statement putting gig companies on notice Sep 15, 2022, 8:08 PM UTC | FTC Chairwoman Lina Khan glances at SEC Chairman Gary Gensler during a House Financial Services Committee hearing. Photo by Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images The Federal Trade Commission voted today to put gig economy companies on notice, promising to protect gig workers from unfair contracts, pay, and hours. ...read more

Bell will consolidate Distributel with EBOX. Glen LeBlanc, Bell’s chief financial officer, shared the news at BMO’s 23rd annual Media and Telecom conference. “We will leave [Distributel] as a self-standing entity and operate it as such. We will consolidate it with EBOX,” he said. Bell announced its plans to acquire Distributel earlier this month in a brief press release. Bell also acquired EBOX earlier in the year. The Distributel acquisition will help Bell grow its internet subscriber ...read more

Skip to main content Sep 15, 2022, 7:11 PM UTC | The real horror is being stuck with iOS 3 for eternity. Netflix has released the trailer for its latest Stephen King adaptation, Mr. Harrigan’s Phone, which is based on the short story by the same name. In the trailer, we see Craig, played by Jaeden Martell (who starred in the recent It adaptations and Knives Out), bonding with the titular Mr. Harrigan, an aging billionaire played by Donald Sutherland (President Snow in ...read more

A standard and an 'ultra-high frequency' version of the chipset could be released Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 successor, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 is reported to be unveiled at the Snapdragon Summit taking place on November 15th-17th, later this year. A new leak regarding the upcoming SoC (system-on-a-chip) from tipster ‘Digital Chat Station’ on the Chinese social media website Weibo suggests that Qualcomm’s upcoming chip will release in two separate versions, via Android ...read more

Skip to main content / Commissioners approved a new policy statement putting gig companies on notice Sep 15, 2022, 8:08 PM UTC | FTC Chairwoman Lina Khan glances at SEC Chairman Gary Gensler during a House Financial Services Committee hearing. Photo by Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images The Federal Trade Commission voted today to put gig economy companies on notice, promising to protect gig workers from unfair contracts, pay, and hours. ...read more

When customers ask Alexa questions, it can surface answers from related brands alongside links to Amazon storefronts Your Amazon Alexa smart speaker might soon pitch ads when you ask it for answers to specific questions. Amazon talked about the feature at its Accelerate 2022 conference and shared a subsequent blog post detailing the feature. The utility, called ‘Customers ask Alexa,’ is geared toward brands expanding their business, all while helping answer common customer q ...read more

Skip to main content / Commissioners approved a new policy statement putting gig companies on notice Sep 15, 2022, 8:08 PM UTC | FTC Chairwoman Lina Khan glances at SEC Chairman Gary Gensler during a House Financial Services Committee hearing. Photo by Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images The Federal Trade Commission voted today to put gig economy companies on notice, promising to protect gig workers from unfair contracts, pay, and hours. ...read more