Tuesday, August 18, 2026

Business

The hidden ‘interchange’ fee tucked into every card swipe now costs U.S. merchants around $111 billion a year — roughly four times what it...

Every time a shopper taps a Visa or Mastercard at a checkout counter in the United States, a small percentage of that swipe peels off before the merchant ever sees the money. It is called interchange, and in 2024...

China’s AI boom isn’t producing the next Jack Ma — it’s producing a generation of one-person businesses running on generative agents, and Silicon Valley...

In one example from Shenzhen, a former product manager laid off from a major platform company is now running what she calls a business of one, using generative AI to write ad copy, design storefronts, and produce short-form video...

Hacking, blackmail and deception: Australian government minister sounds alarm on AI as new safety institute takes a closer look

The artificial intelligence technology of a company wanting to massively expand in Australia is one of several hacking, blackmailing and deceiving its creators. Technology Assistant Minister Andrew Charlton issued a warning at the AI Safety Forum in Sydney on Tuesday,...

Why Telstra’s network outage took trains off the rails – along with everything else

But mobile phones weren’t the only thing knocked out of action. Some EFTPOS payment services, taxi payment systems, electric vehicle charging platform Chargefox, and public transport ticketing in Canberra were all affected. There have been conflicting reports over whether Triple...

Thought of the day by Stoic philosopher Seneca: “The wise man is self-sufficient. Nevertheless, he desires friends, neighbours, and associates, no matter how much...

When I first arrived in Vietnamm more than a decade ago, my calendar filled up fast. There was a big group of us, most weeks had at least one meetup, and I thought this was just how expat life...

Opinion | The most magnetic people often aren’t the charming or witty ones — they tend to be the people whose visible ease quietly...

What follows is editorial reflection on research about how people read and affect one another, not psychological guidance. We are writers reading the literature, not clinicians or psychologists. The studies cited here describe patterns across groups, and population-level findings...

Photonic Adds Microsoft Quantum, UK Intelligence Veterans to Leadership Team

Vancouver’s Photonic is strengthening its leadership team as the quantum computing company moves deeper into commercialization. The company announced this week that Orlagh Neary has joined as Chief Marketing Officer, while Briony Shipman has been appointed Vice President of Global...

I spent years reaching for my phone the moment anxiety hit, and then I found out sound therapists engineered an eight-minute song to slow...

For years, the moment anxiety hit, my hand went to my phone before my brain had finished registering what was happening. Not to call anyone. Not even to look anything up. Just to hold it, unlock it, scroll it, as...

BC TechMap 2026 Charts the Players Powering B.C.’s Tech Ecosystem

The BC Tech Association has published its BC TechMap 2026, a visual snapshot of the companies, organizations, and ecosystem builders helping shape the province’s innovation economy. The annual map is designed to showcase the key players across B.C.’s technology sector...

My dad is almost 70 and has no close friends, and I’ve stopped trying to fix it, because I finally understood he doesn’t experience...

My father is almost seventy and he has no close friends. Not one. No mate he rings on a Sunday, no old colleague he meets for a beer, nobody who would notice, in the first day or two, if...
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In one of the most dramatic endings to a Longacres Mile race, 32-1 underdog Adios Jojo was named the...
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