Epic Games, the maker of the wildly popular video game Fortnite, has agreed to pay $520 million US in fines and rebates for tricking millions of players into making unintentional purchases in the game. American regulator...
For Australian philosopher Peter Singer, the fraud charges laid against Sam Bankman-Fried will not trigger a death blow for “effective altruism,” a philanthropic movement championed by the FTX cryptocurrency exchange founder. “It may lead the...
Canadians who don’t file their income tax returns are sometimes shocked to find out how much money they’re owed by the federal government for years of missed benefits, says the head of a non-profit...
The slowdown underway in Canada’s housing market continued last month, new figures from the Canadian Real Estate Association showed Thursday, with the average selling price falling to just over $630,000, and the number of...
The U.S. Federal Reserve reinforced its inflation fight Wednesday by raising its key interest rate for the seventh time this year and signalling more hikes to come. But the Fed announced a smaller hike...
Inflation in the United States slowed again last month in the latest sign that price increases are gradually cooling despite the pressures they continue to inflict on American households. Consumer prices rose 7.1 per...
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried was arrested in the Bahamas at the behest of U.S. prosecutors on Monday, the day before he was due to testify before Congress about the abrupt failure last month of...
With their futuristic designs and new technology, electric vehicles are the seductive consumer-friendly face of the energy transition. As first incarnated by Tesla, the EV is increasingly seen as sleeker, slicker, faster and more...
There’s a new artificial intelligence tool in town, and it’s getting massive mainstream attention. ChatGPT is a program where users can type in a question or a task, and the software will pull information from...
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission said Thursday it is suing to block Microsoft’s planned $69 billion US takeover of video game company Activision Blizzard, saying it could suppress competitors to its Xbox game consoles and...