By Armina Ligaya The Canadian Press TORONTO — The Bank of Montreal is taking a first step towards artificial-intelligence powered customer service by launching chatbots that can field questions via Facebook Messenger and Twitter. The deployment of such technology is the latest move by a Canadian bank to beef up […]
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By Seth Borenstein The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Everyone knew of Stephen Hawking’s cosmic brilliance, but few could comprehend it. Not even top-notch astronomers. Hawking, who died at his home in Cambridge, England, on Wednesday at age 76, became the public face of science genius. He appeared on “Star Trek: […]
By Mark Thiessen The Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Joar Ulsom of Norway won the world’s most famous sled dog race Wednesday after a grueling dash across Alaska’s rough terrain, but he earned tens of thousands of dollars less than last year’s top musher at the struggling Iditarod. “It’s pretty […]
By Cassandra Szklarski The Canadian Press TORONTO — When a partial laptop ban at his Halifax cafe led to miffed patrons and headaches for staff, owner Sean Gallagher decided to do something more drastic to enforce his no-screen rule: a restaurant redesign. Gallagher says he shut down Lion & Bright […]
The Canadian Press The American government is imposing more anti-dumping duties on Canadian newsprint. The U.S. Department of Commerce says a preliminary investigation has found Canadian exporters underpriced uncoated groundwood paper by between 0 and 22.16 per cent. Uncoated groundwood paper includes newsprint, as well as book publishing, printing and […]
By Katie Workman The Associated Press Deviled eggs know no single season or demographic. They are blissfully democratic appetizers. In the same category as pigs in a blanket: everyone is happy to see them, sophisticated people shed their cool. You can’t be annoyed when there are deviled eggs around; it […]
The Associated Press CLERMONT, Ky. — Bourbon barrel No. 15 million has taken its place in a Jim Beam warehouse in Kentucky. Beam on Monday filled its 15 millionth barrel of bourbon since the end of Prohibition. The company says it’s a first for a Kentucky distillery. It was filled […]
By Lolita C. Baldor The Associated Press WASHINGTON — U.S. military leaders are considering new guidelines for the use of helmet cameras on the battlefield after Islamic State-linked fighters in Niger exploited footage taken by a fallen American soldier to make a propaganda video that highlighted the killing of four […]
The Associated Press VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis has received an unlikely anniversary gift from his predecessor. Retired Pope Benedict XVI has publicly dismissed as “foolish prejudice” those who say Francis has no theological heft and represents a rupture from his own papacy. The occasion was the release of a […]
