Casey Harrell, an ALS patient who lost the ability to speak, has communicated nearly two million words over two years using a brain-computer interface developed by the BrainGate 2 research team at Massachusetts General Hospital. The case is the first sustained at-home use of a speech-decoding implant.

BCE, the parent of Bell, is cutting roughly 690 jobs, about one per cent of its workforce, the latest round in a restructuring aimed at 1.5 billion dollars in savings by 2028. The cuts land on a Canadian labour market already shedding jobs.

A San Francisco judge has thrown out Elon Musk's xAI trade-secret lawsuit against OpenAI with prejudice, ruling that recruiting a rival's engineer and asking about his work is competition, not theft. It is Musk's second courtroom loss to OpenAI in a month.

China's Supreme People's Court barred Germany's Infineon from selling a class of gallium nitride power chips in mainland China, a patent win for domestic leader Innoscience that sparked a rally in Chinese chip stocks. It lands weeks after a US tribunal ruled the other way, banning Innoscience at home.

Opioid overdose deaths in Canada fell 23 per cent in 2025 to 5,630, a second straight annual decline that officials credit to a shifting drug supply and wider naloxone access. They warn the progress is fragile and the toll still unacceptably high.

Nara Organics recalled every lot of its Whole Milk Organic Powdered Infant Formula after three babies in California, Pennsylvania and Washington were hospitalized with infant botulism. No product has yet tested positive for the bacterium, and federal investigators say results are weeks away.

The New York Times reset the board at midnight with a puzzle that smells faintly of sourdough and sesame. Strands #835, published Tuesday, June 16, 2026, carries the theme “For here or to go?”, a question familiar to anyone who has ever stood at a deli counter, a ramen bar, or a taco cart and made the small daily decision that somehow feels significant. ...

The New York Times Connections puzzle is back for Tuesday, June 16, 2026, and Puzzle #1101 is one of those grids that rewards patience and quietly punishes early commitment. Sixteen words. Four hidden categories. One rule that never changes: the obvious grouping is almost always a trap. If you are searching for today’s Connections hints, the full NYT ...

Not long ago, digital money lived in a narrow corner of the internet. It was the domain of forum threads, mining rigs humming in basements, and traders who treated price charts the way other people treat sports scores. Today, that same currency sits squarely inside serious geopolitical conversation: central banks debate digital reserves, sanctioned ...

Salesforce agreed to pay about $3.6 billion for Fin, the AI customer-service agent formerly known as Intercom, folding it into Agentforce. The deal is a bet on automating support work, struck as investors fear the same technology will hollow out the software business Salesforce built.

There are days the sky whispers. Tuesday, 16 June 2026, is not one of them. With Venus in Leo forming an exact trine to Neptune in Aries, the cosmos has arranged what astrologers are describing as the single most romantically and creatively charged transit of the Gemini season. The Moon, newly waxing in Cancer after Sunday’s New Moon reset, amplifies ...

The New York Times Wordle resets every day at midnight, and on Tuesday, June 16, 2026, puzzle #1823 has arrived with a word that sits at the intersection of everyday language and quiet cognitive misdirection. If you are searching for the Wordle answer today, calibrated Wordle hints before the spoiler, or a complete tactical breakdown of this morning’s ...

Apple is now testing iOS 26.5.2 internally while simultaneously pushing iOS 26.6 into its second developer beta and iterating on iOS 27. That three-track calendar is not an accident it's a triage that tells you exactly where your iPhone stands.

Steam Next Fest June 2026 launched today with nearly 5,000 free PC game demos a record that masks a growing paradox: as the catalog expands, the algorithmic returns for small studios keep shrinking.

Garmin's Fenix 8 has dropped to its lowest-ever price ahead of Prime Day 2026 and analysts say the flagship watch is unlikely to fall further during the four-day June sale, making the Father's Day window a genuine buy signal.

Bots now generate 53% of all web traffic, leaving humans a minority on an internet they built and the companies selling AI tools are responsible for the largest share of that automated surge.

Vir Das paid Rs 50,000 for an Apple Watch on Zepto and got a box labelled 'Designed by Watch in China.' Zepto delivered a replacement within hours. What neither the comedian nor the company has explained is how a counterfeit got into the fulfilment chain in the first place.

Apple completed a full AI model-picker inside Siri and then said nothing about it at WWDC leaving OpenAI in the one position its lawyers cannot solve: the feature OpenAI is threatening to sue over might also be the best distribution deal ChatGPT has ever seen.

Google has moved its long-hidden flight simulator out of its desktop app and into any web browser for free, no download required. The feature's real significance is what it signals about who controls the skies over Google's 3D data empire.

Apple's iOS 27 overhaul quietly repairs one of the most complained-about iOS 26 degradations: Low Power Mode that turned usable phones into sluggish bricks. The fix is more revealing than the headline speed numbers.

Fox Corporation agreed to acquire Roku for $22 billion on Monday, pairing live sports and news with the leading connected TV platform but to win regulatory approval, Fox may have pledged away the deal's core advantage.

A threat actor calling itself SHADOWBYT3$ claims to have stolen nearly 860MB of Nintendo employee data through the HR platform TINYpulse, demanding $2 million then pivoting the ransom clock to the vendor itself after Nintendo refused to engage.

Six Wall Street firms raised Micron price targets simultaneously on June 15 as MU surged over 8 percent. The upgrade cascade validates the AI memory thesis and raises the June 24 earnings bar to a level that could turn the rally into a trap.

ASUS has quietly launched its most affordable four-port GaN charger yet in China for roughly $25 a price point that undercuts Anker and Ugreen while matching them on hardware. Global availability remains unconfirmed.

Electronic Arts has launched EA Advertising, a platform embedding brands directly into Madden NFL, EA Sports FC, and College Football timed to rival broadcast sports as TV upfront budgets contract and EA itself faces a pending $5.75 billion acquisition.