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Clark Roberts, a blind Seattle Seahawks fan, uses a OneCourt tablet, a tactile device that translates gameplay into trackable vibrations along with real-time audio, at the T-Mobile Innovation Hub Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2026, in Bellevue, Wash. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)
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Some blind fans to experience Super Bowl with tactile device that tracks ball

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Some blind fans to experience Super Bowl with tactile device that tracks ball

Larry Lage, The Associated Press 5 minute read Friday, Jan. 30, 2026

Some blind and low-vision fans will have unprecedented access to the Super Bowl thanks to a tactile device that tracks the ball, vibrates on key plays and provides real-time audio.

The NFL teamed up with OneCourt and Ticketmaster to pilot the game-enhancing experience 15 times during the regular-season during games hosted by the Seattle Seahawks, Jacksonville Jaguars, San Francisco 49ers, Atlanta Falcons and Minnesota Vikings.

About 10 blind and low-vision fans will have an opportunity to use the same technology at the Super Bowl in Santa Clara, California, where Seattle will play the New England Patriots on Feb. 8. With hands on the device, they will feel the location of the ball and hear what's happening throughout the game.

Scott Thornhill can't wait.

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Friday, Jan. 30, 2026
Dan David, as shown in this handout photo, a renowned Mohawk journalist and the first news director at the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network, has died. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Handout-Loreen Pindera (Mandatory Credit)
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Dan David, Mohawk journalist and Indigenous news trailblazer, dies at 73

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Dan David, Mohawk journalist and Indigenous news trailblazer, dies at 73

Fakiha Baig, The Canadian Press 4 minute read Monday, Jan. 19, 2026

Dan David, a renowned Mohawk journalist who helped establish the news department of the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network, has died.

His sister Marie David said he died Jan. 12 after a long struggle with cancer.

He was 73.

Karyn Pugliese, an APTN host and producer and David's friend and colleague, said his death is a huge loss for the dozens of Indigenous journalists he mentored and whose careers he helped launch.

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Monday, Jan. 19, 2026
Shauna McAllister, sales lead for Indigenous majority-owned company R8dius, is shown in this undated handout photo. McAllister is participating in the inaugural Indigenous Tech Conference in Vancouver, which aims to connect Indigenous professionals in the technology industry. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Handout - Paige Weir Creative (Mandatory Credit)
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Vancouver conference aims to unite Indigenous tech community

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Vancouver conference aims to unite Indigenous tech community

Marissa Birnie, The Canadian Press 4 minute read Monday, Jan. 19, 2026

VANCOUVER - For Shauna McAllister, working at Canadian technology companies as a Cree and Métis woman meant she was often the only Indigenous person in the room. 

"When it comes to being an individual who is proud of their identity and wants to incorporate that into their work, that can be very lonely," McAllister, a sales lead for Indigenous majority-owned company R8dius told The Canadian Press. 

But she and others are hoping to change that by participating in an inaugural conference bringing together hundreds of Indigenous technology professionals in Vancouver in the coming week.

The Indigenous Tech Conference, organized by the Indigenous Tech Circle, is set to take place on Tuesday and Wednesday.

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Monday, Jan. 19, 2026
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Future students will be wired differently, thanks to AI

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Future students will be wired differently, thanks to AI

Maggie Macintosh 4 minute read Friday, Jan. 16, 2026

Teachers were urged to stop asking children what they want to be when they grow up and focus on building creative, self-directed and critical thinkers at Manitoba’s AI in Education Summit.

“How do we prepare kids for a future we can’t yet see, but we know it’s going to be radically transformed by technology?” futurist Sinead Bovell asked a crowd of educators at a first-of-its-kind conference Friday.

“That is the moment that we are in.”

The province invited Bovell, founder of tech education company WAYE, to share her predictions about artificial intelligence and related advice for schools.

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Friday, Jan. 16, 2026
John Woods / THE CANADIAN PRESS FILES Pimicikamak Cree Nation Chief David Monias, left, and Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak Inc. (MKO) Grand Chief Grand Chief Garrison Settee speak to the media during a tour with politicians and media at Pimicikamak Cree Nation, Man., last Wednesday.
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First Nation’s power-outage misery ‘frozen like a rock’

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First Nation’s power-outage misery ‘frozen like a rock’

Kevin Rollason 3 minute read Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2026

An army of plumbers, engineers and members of the Canadian Armed Forces are continuing to assess damages after a lengthy power outage at Pimicikamak Cree Nation froze water and sewage pipes.

Chief David Monias said it is going to take months to repair damage to homes and years to install new water and sewage treatment plants and systems.

“They have frozen pipes — the sewage plant is completely frozen,” Monias said Wednesday. “The raw sewage has frozen like rock, it is as hard as rock. There is enough (methane) gas in there that we can’t even enter the building. So they are trying to figure out a way how to air out that building so that they can assess the sewage problem.”

Monias said the experts are going to try to get the water and sewage systems up and running while the community works with government on a longer term solution. He said the plants will eventually need to be decommissioned.

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Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2026
SUPPLIED Shane Castel, 40, and his six-year-old daughter, Kaia Rose, are staying in a Thompson hotel while Pimicikamak Cree Nation is without power.
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Hundreds evacuated amid power outage in Pimicikamak

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Hundreds evacuated amid power outage in Pimicikamak

Chris Kitching 6 minute read Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2025

More than 300 Pimicikamak Cree Nation residents have been moved to other communities in Manitoba amid a power outage that is now not expected to be resolved until 6 p.m. on New Year’s Day.

The evacuation to Thompson, Whiskey Jack Landing and Norway House Cree Nation involved elders, people with certain health conditions and families with babies, Chief David Monias said.

“The problems we are having keep on piling up the longer we go (without power),” Monias said Tuesday morning. “People are frustrated, and people are angry that this is happening. We have people at risk.”

Hotel space in Thompson was limited, he said. Buses were scheduled to transport dozens of residents to Winnipeg starting Tuesday afternoon.

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Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2025
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El Salvador teams up with Elon Musk’s xAI to bring AI to 5,000 public schools

The Associated Press 2 minute read Saturday, Mar. 21, 2026

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador President Nayib Bukele said Thursday that his administration is partnering with Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI to bring artificial intelligence into more than 5,000 public schools.

The millennial leader, who previously made El Salvador the first nation to make bitcoin legal tender in 2021, is betting big on technology again.

In a statement Thursday, xAI said that its Grok chatbot will bring “personalized learning to over one million students” by creating tutoring “that adjusts to each student’s pace, preferences, and mastery level — ensuring every child, from urban centers to rural communities, receives world-class education tailored to their needs.”

Bukele said in the statement that El Salvador would be “pioneering AI-driven education.”

FILE - Caroline Stage, Danish Minister for Digitalization and representatives from the agreement parties attends a press conference about a new political agreement for better protection of children and young people online, in Copenhagen, Friday, Nov. 7, 2025. (Thomas Traasdahl/Ritzau Scanpix via AP, File)

Denmark plans to severely restrict social media use for young people

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Denmark plans to severely restrict social media use for young people

James Brooks, The Associated Press 6 minute read Saturday, Dec. 13, 2025

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — As Australia began enforcing a world-first social media ban for children under 16 years old this week, Denmark is planning to follow its lead and severely restrict social media access for young people.

The Danish government announced last month that it had secured an agreement by three governing coalition and two opposition parties in parliament to ban access to social media for anyone under the age of 15. Such a measure would be the most sweeping step yet by a European Union nation to limit use of social media among teens and children.

The Danish government's plans could become law as soon as mid-2026. The proposed measure would give some parents the right to let their children access social media from age 13, local media reported, but the ministry has not yet fully shared the plans.

Many social media platforms already ban children younger than 13 from signing up, and a EU law requires Big Tech to put measures in place to protect young people from online risks and inappropriate content. But officials and experts say such restrictions don’t always work.

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Saturday, Dec. 13, 2025
The Chat GPT app icon appears on a smartphone screen on Monday, Aug. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)
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News publishers’ copyright lawsuit against OpenAI cleared to go ahead in Ontario

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News publishers’ copyright lawsuit against OpenAI cleared to go ahead in Ontario

Anja Karadeglija, The Canadian Press 3 minute read Friday, Nov. 28, 2025

OTTAWA - An Ontario court has decided a copyright lawsuit filed by Canadian news publishers against OpenAI will proceed in that province.

OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, had put forward a jurisdictional challenge and argued the case should be heard in a U.S. courtroom instead.

OpenAI said the company isn’t located in Ontario and doesn’t do business in the province, and that the alleged conduct — the AI model training and crawling of web content — took place outside of Ontario.

But the decision by the Ontario Superior Court of Justice concludes the court does have jurisdiction to hear the case.

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Friday, Nov. 28, 2025
Children First Canada youth adviser Zachary Fathally, 11, speaks during a news conference on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Thursday, Nov. 20, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
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Child advocates urge government to bring back online harms legislation

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Child advocates urge government to bring back online harms legislation

Anja Karadeglija, The Canadian Press 4 minute read Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025

OTTAWA - The dangers children face online constitute a national emergency, a coalition of child advocates and medical organizations said Thursday as they called for the federal government to take action.

"Unlike every other industry that affects children, from cars to pharmaceuticals to toys to food safety, the tech industry has been allowed to self-regulate with tragic consequences," said Andrea Chrysanthou, chair of the board for Children First Canada, at a press conference on Parliament Hill.

The advocates say children are being exploited, extorted, bullied — and in some cases, kids have died as a result of online harms.

Dr. Margot Burnell, president of the Canadian Medical Association, said doctors see the negative health impacts of social media use firsthand.

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Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025