Keep winter spending surprises from leaving you out in the coldArticle contentInstead of absorbing travel into your monthly household budget, build it into your annual spending plan alongside RRSP and TFSA contributions. For instance, if you typically spend $12,000 on winter travel and recreation, acknowledge this when you outline your budget. Then once it is planned, you can look for ways to...

Can the creator economy stay afloat in a flood of AI slop? Online creators and their business models were on our mind this week after mega-popular YouTuber MrBeast announced that his company is buying fintech startup Step, followed by Hollywood studios sending a flurry of cease-and-desist letters to ByteDance over the launch of its new video generation model Seedance 2.0. Those seemingly...

Google adds music-generation capabilities to the Gemini app Google announced on Wednesday that it’s adding a music-generation feature to the Gemini app. The company is using DeepMind’s Lyria 3 music-generation model to power the feature, which is still in beta. To use the feature, you’ll describe the song you want to create, and the app will generate a track along with lyrics. For instance,...

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The Wayback Machine debuts a new plug-in designed to fix the internet’s broken links problem Image Credits:Tetra Images / Getty Images 2:27 PM PST · February 4, 2026 The Internet Archive is a nonprofit that — as you might expect — is devoted to archiving the internet and preserving digital context for future generations. This week, the platform announced a new...