April 18 & 19, 2026 Show Notes
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1) Watch out for fake unpaid Vancouver parking ticket texts
The texts look like this screenshot, which my wife captured for me on her iPad…
The text claims you have an upaid ticket in the City of Vancouver, and warns that if you don't pay it ASAP, you will incur extra penalties for delayed payment, referral to debt collection services, and that your vehicle licence and registration cannot be renewed until all outstanding fines are settled.
The text includes a link which takes you to a fake Vancouver ticket payment website (which has since been shut down) where you put in your licence plate #, and no matter what plate info ytou put in, it tells you that you owe $40 and tells you to input your credit card info.
If you do, scammers overseas will immedaitely begin using that info to buy Amazon gift cards for themselves and then redeem them.
NEVER click on links in texts or emails like this!
You will NEVER get a legitimate text about an unpaid ticket — they're always sent by postal mail.
2) Watch out for a new round of fake Shaw email update emails
It starts with an email like the one in the screenshot below, which was shared by Tech Talk listener Bob in Saanich…
The email, which is addressed merely to Dear User, was sent from the @shaw.ca account of another Shaw email user who fell for a scam had had their account hijacked.
It claims that service limitations will be imposed if you don't upgrade your account within 72 hours, and urges you to ctap or click on Review Account to do that.
If you do, it takes you to a Google docs slide as shown in this screenshot…
If you were to click or tap on the Click here to Proceed, you'd be taken to a Wixsite website. which fortunately, most browsers will flag as being unsafe…
…but if you were using a browser like Firefox or Opera which won't warn you, or if you disregard the warning, you'd end up on a fake Shaw Webmail page…
If you provide your @shaw.ca email address and password, overseas hackers will then immediately do several things…
1) they'll forward a copy of all your incoming emails to themselves at a gmail.com address
2) they'll create a 'rule' that also immediately moves all incoming emails and all Sent emails to your Archive folder. That way, if your friends start emailing back asking if you've been hacked, or confirming that they do shop on Amazon, you won't see any of those emails.
3) they'll download a copy of your Contact List and one-by-one, start emailing everyone on the list, asking if they buy Amazon gift cards.
4) they'll create a new email address that's one letter different from yours, so they can continue emailing your contacts if you detect the scam and change your Shaw email password.
NEVER click on links in emails like this!
This scam is only possible because two-factor authentication for @shaw.ca email accounts is not provided by Rogers. If 2FA was provided, the scammers would not be able to access your email even if you got tricked into giving them your password, because they'd also need a code that would be texted to you.
Rogers has already ceased allowing the creation of new @shaw.ca accounts, and has shut down all @shaw.ca business email accounts, and is expected to soon give notice that they're doing the same with @shaw.ca consumer accounts. So, if you're still using an @shaw.ca email address, please get someone to help you migrate to a new email service!
3) Watch out for phone calls from someone claiming to be a bank fraud investigator — it's a scam
Residents of Sidney and North Saanich have lost more than $15,000 this year to a recurring bank scam, the two municipalities warned on Tuesday.
Scammers pose as RBC fraud investigators, and sometimes claim to work with the RCMP, the two said in a joint statement. They ask victims for access to their computer or pressure them to move money to “protect” their accounts. They then persuade victims to withdraw cash and send it by mail or deposit it into bitcoin ATMs.
The two municipalities provided tips to avoid being scammed:
• Don’t trust caller ID because numbers can be spoofed.
• Hang up from suspicious calls and phone your bank using the number on your credit card.
• Never provide remote access to your computer
• Be cautious if a caller knows part of your credit-card number.
• Be aware that banks will never ask you to withdraw or transfer money for “security.”
4) If you get a pop-up about your Google account being suspended because it 'doesn't follow the rules', it's a scam
"Tech Talk" listener Peter in Cordova Bay sent this picture of what appeared on his wife's phone…
It appeared after Lydia tapped on something which took her unknowingly to a hijacked website.
If she'd tapped on OK or Remove, it'd take her to the Google Play App Store to download a free virus scanner. The app itself is harmless…but it comes with a free three day-trial and then an automatic $19.95 USD renewal every two weeks.
The scammers are gambling that if you do cancel it, it'll be after they got their first $20 out of you.
They avoid getting caught because they delete the app from the app store almost weekly (before anyone can post a review that it's a scam), and replace it with one with a different name. And because apps like these are not harmful to your device, it's hard for Apple or Google to detect that they're being used for subscription scamming.
NEVER install apps on the basis of a pop-up screen like this one!
You can make the message go away by simply closing your web-browser, or in this case, by tapping on the small "x" in the upper-right corner of the screen, or, by re-starting your device.
And if you do install a subscription app and don't realize that till after your free trial is over, contact Apple or Google and they'll almost always refund your first subscription fee.
Here's how for Apple device users…
…and here's how for Android device users…
5) Watch out for fake DocuSign emails
Faithful "Tech Talk" listener Kirk sent the email which is screenshotted below, which claims to be a document which you've been requested to sign and return…
The email — which looks very similar to a real DocuSign email which you'd get if you were making a financial transaction like buying or selling property or a vehicle — is coming from a long gibberish address that ends in .me — that's the web-domain for the Balkan Republic of Montenegro!
It comes with an attached PDF, and if you open the attachment, it takes you to an online portal (which the real DocuSign would also do), but in this case, you're asked to verify your identity for security reasons…
However, if you put in your Microsoft Account email password and hit Next, you'll be taken to a screen asking for a code which will be sent to you by Microsoft. DON'T DO THIS!!!
Here's the scam: if you hit Next, behind the scenes, the scammers running the website hosting the log-in screen above will immediately use your password to try to get into your Microsoft account, at which point Microsoft will email you a code to prove it's you. If you type in that code on the screen, you'll have just given the scammers permission to change your password and lock you out of your account and your email! They'll then trigger password reset emails for your shopping, banking, and other online accounts, and lock you out of those so they can steal your money and your identity.
NEVER open attachments in emails like this!
If you're making a significant transaction that requires electronic signatures, the real estate agent, bank, or lawyer handling the transaction should give you the heads-up to expect a DocuSign email. If in doubt, reach out to that person or company before opening one.
Tech Deals This Weekend
The mobile plan price war is continuing, but Freedom Mobile still has far and away the best deals
Although the deals being offered are not as good as they were at the height of the price-war a few weeks ago, Quebec-based Freedom Mobile which is owned by Quebec-based Vidéotron, and Public Mobile which is a ultra-budget self-serve brand owned by Telus, are both still offering deals that are cheaper than before the price-war started.
Freedom's current deals, which are valid through the close of business on Monday, are the best…
Freedom's plans all include Canada/USA/Mexico calling and data roaming, but also include a monthly allotment of "Roam Beyond" data good in 120+ countries, as well as unlimited calling in any included country and back to Canada. The bst part is, all the plans are available to current customers as well as to new customers.
If you don't need a huge amount of data, Freedom also has a six-month prepaid plan that gives you unlimited Canada/USA calling and data roaming and 25GB of data, for $120 paid up front, which works out to $20/month. It renews every six months for the same price.
Public Mobile has again cut its rates to match Freedom's.
However, Public Mobile's $35/month plan is Canada-only calling and data, and none of their plans include any overseas service, and none let you share your data via tethering or a hotspot…
In response, Koodo, Fido, and Virgin+ have again all reduced their rates.
However, their reduced rates are still more expensive: $40/month for 60GB/month Canada only, and $50/momth for 80GB/month Canada/USA/Mexico.
Freedom's coverage is also the best of the big four carriers, because the agreement that saw them sold by Shaw when Rogers bought Shaw, allows Freedom customers to roam seamlessly at no charge onto the networks of Rogers, Telus, and Bell when they're beyond the reach of the fast-growing network of Freedom towers. That deal will continue for seven more years to give Freedom time to build-out its nationwide network.
Another small batch of refurb Lenovo Windows 11 ThinkPad laptops for $399 and $449 when Tesseract Computers re-opens on Monday
Good deals on computers are becoming scarce as skyrocketing prices on SSD's and RAM are forcing stores to increases prices again and again. However, Gary and Chris at Tesseract Computers in downtown Victoria have obtained another batch of refurbished 15.4" business-grade Windows 11 Pro Lenovo ThinkPad laptops, which you can buy on Monday when they re-open after the weekend…
Both models come with 256GB SSD (solid-state drives):
- Lenovo 14" T480s laptops powered by Intel 8th-gen Core i5 processors: $399
- larger 15.4" Lenovo T580 laptops powered by Intel 8th-gen Core i5 processors: $449
These are good basic laptops, great for surfing the web, emailing, editing documents and spreadsheets and watching YouTube. If you want to edit 4K videos or play powerful games, these won't have enough power to do that stort of stuff quickly.
Get one, while they last, on Monday at Tesseract Computers at 720 Broughton in downtown Victoria.
Tech News Of The Week
Items start at #10, so the numbers don't get thrown-off if we add more security items above!
Tip: if an item in these Show Notes has the icon on the right in the upper-right corner, you can click/tap on it to make the additional info open in a new tab.
10) Microsoft will be retiring its Outlook Lite smartphone app next month — but virtually no-one here should be affected
Four years ago, Microsoft released a special "Lite" version of its Outlook Mail app, so people could use it to send and receive email on smartphones that were too old or too low-powered to run the regular Outlook app, or where internet speeds were too slow for the regular Outlook app to work.
It was almost exclusively used in third-world countries like India, and in nations in Southeast Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
Because internet speeds have increased dramatically around the world since then, and because even the cheapest smartphones are now powerful enough to run the main Outlook Mail app, Microsoft is retiring Outlook Lite on May 25.
After that date, users of Outlook Lite will no longer be able to send or receive emails.
This change should affect virtually no-one here; so if you see stuff online about this impending shutdown of Outlook Lite, you can relax and ignore it.
11) Which month is spelled with a 'X'? This is why AI chatbot answers must be double-checked!
Earlier this week, people discovered a glaring error being made by Microsoft's Copilot chatbot and ChatGPT which powers it: if you asked which month is spelled with an 'x', it told that was February!
Here are screenshots which I made confirming this…
If you questioned that, as you can see, it'd double-down and insist there was a silent 'x' between the 'r' and the 'u'! And if you asked if the chatbot was sure, Copilot would then confirm it had made a mistake, while ChatGPT would apologize and say that the actual month with an 'x' in it is December!
Mistakes like this by AI chatbots are called 'hallicuinations'. Chatbots are designed to try to give you what you want, and sometimes, they just make things up in an effort to please you. In this case, it's thought that the error came from sarcastic soicial media posts about people who can't correctly spell the months of the year, and the chatbots failed to detect the sarcasm.
OpenAI, the makers of ChatGPT, quickly fixed the propblem as soon as it started making the news, but this serves as a valuable example of why you should always double check info from a chatbot (or anything online, for that matter),before you act on it.
If you ask about the best romantic Italian restaurants near you, for exmple, before heading to one it recommends, check to make sure that a) the restaurant actually exists) and b) that it's still in business.
12) If you use encrypted messaging apps like Signal, Telegram, and WhatsApp, there's a key change you might want to make, to keep law enforcement from exploiting a trick to read your messages
Politicans, lawyers, and others (unfortunately also including terrorists and crime-gang members) who need to share confidential info, mostly use apps like Signal and Telegram, because of their ultra-secure encryption systems that prevent law enforcement and spy agencies from being able to access their chats.
WhatsApp insists that its messages are end-to-end encrypted as well, but a class-action lawsuit filed in California claims that's not the case, so we're all waiting to find out if the plaintiffs have any actual proof of that.
In any case, it's now come to light that there's a flaw in how phones show message previews from these apps, which law enforcement has started to use to gain access to confidential messages.
It turns out that if your phone is set to display a preview of a message received by apps like Signal, Telegram, and WhatsApp, even though the message itself is encrypted, the preview is not, and all those previews remain stored in the phone for all time.
Law enforcement agencies can seize your phone and access those previews to see what was said.
If you don't want that to be possible, here's what to do:
- Go into your phone's Settings and go to Notifications
- Scroll down to the first messaging app which you're concerned about, find the setting for Show Previews, and change it to Never
- Back out and repeat this process for each messaging app that you're concerned about.
A fair number of people will likely decide that the message previews are useful, and thry have nothing to hide, and aren't going to change anything, and that's perfectly fine.
To help you decide, simply ask yourself: is there anything that gets said to you in chat messages that you would not want law enforcement to have access to, if you were stopped? If so, follow the steps above.
13) Apple has changed the process (again) for updating apps on iPhones and iPads
Only a few weeks after changing the process for manually updating apps on iPhones and iPads, Apple has further tweaked the process.
Apps are supposed to be automatically updated, and they are - eventually. There are so many hundreds of millions of smartphones in use, that it can take days if not weeks for app updates to get pushed out to your phone, and that can cause problems if you need the latest version of an app, or want to use the new features and slash or avoid bugs plaguing an earlier version.
This is why we recommend you regularly do a manual update for your apps, epecially if you're about to go travelling, when you need your airline and border crossing apps to all be up-to-date!
Here's the latest process for iPhones and iPads running OS 26.4/26.4.1:
- Open the App Store
- Tapk on your initials or picture in a circle in the upper-right corner
- In the screen appears, tap on App Updates (new name and location) and it'll show you how many app updates are pending — but that result is likely out-of-date.
- In the screen that appears, pull down in the middle of the screen like lowering a window-blind, hold for a second, and let go. You'll briefly see a spinning wheel at the top of the screen, while it checks right now for available app updates.
- Scroll up, look for the number of apps that have updates available, and tap on Update all.
- One by one, those apps will be updated, and you'll be good to go!
On an Android device, open the Google Play Store app, and tap on the three horizontal lines in the top-left corner of the screen. Tap on “My apps & games”, and you'll get a list of apps that have updates available. Tap “Update all”.
14) An old flaw in Apple's Express Transit payment system is making social media news, but it's nothing to worry about
A flaw in Apple’s Express Transit tap-to-pay system allows hackers to make high-value transactions from a locked iPhone using a Visa card, exploiting a man-in-the-middle attack.
The vulnerability only affects iPhones with Apple Pay’s Express Transit Mode when a Visa (not a Mastrercard or Amex) card is linked. This mode allows users to pay at transit terminals without unlocking the phone. Hackers can exploit this by using specialized NFC hardware to trick the iPhone into thinking it's interacting with a legitimate transit terminal, intercepting and modifying the transaction data to authorize large payments while the phone remains locked and the screen off. In tests, amounts up to $10,000 were successfully processed as small transit payments.
(You can see how this exploit has been proven to work in video #43 below)
The attack is classified as a man-in-the-middle exploit, requiring two devices: one to capture the iPhone’s signal, and another to relay modified data to a payment terminal. The process involves altering binary codes and bypassing Visa’s usual transaction checks, exploiting a loophole in how Visa processes Express Transit payments.
Here's why this is not the big deal some on social media are making it out to be:
While technically feasible, in order for thisattack to succeed, a scammer has to have specialized equipment, has to be right there with you, and has to execute precise coordination of steps, making it unlikely in everyday scenarios.
Apple and Visa have been aware of the flaw since 2021, and neither is doing anything to fix it because they say the odds of it being exploited are extremely low. Also, Visa’s Zero Liability Policy protects users from financial loss due to such fraudulent transactions.
15) Dairy Queen to begin testing AI-powered drive-throughs
Dairy Queen is the latest fast food giant to experiment with AI-powered drive-throughs.
The chain has revealed plans to roll out this technology to some of its restaurants across Canada and the USA. The goal behind the voice AI is to speed-up drive-thru service times and encourage customers to add more food.
Dairy Queen says this tech will be used at several dozen franchised locations out of the 3,000 which it operates between the two countries. It’s unclear exactly where in Canada the testing will take place.
Dairy Queen has partnered with Silicon Valley AI voice tech company Presto on the initiative, which follows a smaller test in the USA last year. According to Dairy Queen, the bots improved customer-satisfaction scores by double-digit percentages. That said, we’ve seen many incidents of AI-powered drive-thrus going wrong, like ones at McDonalds mistakenly giving hundreds of dollars’ worth of chicken nuggets or topping an ice cream with bacon. In other cases, we’ve seen customers deliberately mess with the system, like a man asking for 18,000 cups of water at Taco Bell.
It’s unclear if and when Dairy Queen plans to more widely roll out AI-powered drive-thrus.
16) You can now banish YouTube Shorts from your phone
For those who don’t like YouTube Shorts, we have good news: you can now pretty much remove it from your phone.
Essentially, YouTube’s time management settings now include an option to set a 0-minute time limit for Shorts, effectively removing them from the YouTube app on both Android and iOS. This option will be an update to the Shorts timer announced in October, which debuted with a minimum duration of 15 minutes.
The feature was expanded back in January to give parents more control over how long their children spend scrolling through Shorts, introducing the option of zero minutes.
YouTube says this zero-second timer option is now available for all parents, and is currently being rolled out to everyone, including users with regular adult accounts, if you really want to dump the platform’s TikTok competitor.
Once you hit your time limit, the Shorts tab won’t show any videos and will display a notification that says you have “reached your Shorts feed limit.” Hiitting the time limit removes Shorts from the home screen entirely, so with the limit set to zero, you can essentially ignore the short-form video feature.
17) Rogers is expanding its satellite-to-mobile coverage to the USA
Rogers is expanding its satellite-to-mobile coverage in the USA through a partnership with American telecom provider T-Mobile.
The partnership, which will combine the reach of both Rogers Satellite and T-Mobile’s satellite-to-mobile service T-Satellite, will expand Rogers’ coverage by 1.3 million square kilometres.
The telecom giant first launched Satellite-to-Mobile (through a partnership with Starlink) last July, initially supporting texting and text-to-911 services. Notably, T-Mobile also uses Starlink for its T-Satellite service.
Over time, Rogers has expanded the service with increased coverage across Canada, and support for applications like Google Maps, AllTrails, WhatsApp, AccuWeather, Facebook Messenger, and X. There are plans for Rogers to add support for traditional cellphone calls and 911 voice services down the line.
Rogers says satellite-to-mobile roaming in the USA is included on the $65/175GB Popular and $85/250GB Ultimate plans, which have USA Coverage, plus Roam Like Tomorrow, and select Travel Passes, all at no extra cost.
18) Canada ‘very seriously’ considering banning social media and AI chatbot use for those 16 and younger
The federal government is “very seriously” considering introducing a social media ban for kids, Culture Minister Marc Miller said Wednesday, days after party members voted in favour of a ban at the Liberal party convention.
A ban could be an important tool but it’s not a solution to the bigger problem of online harms, Miller said.
“I do think it could be an important layer, but it has to be seen as that and not as the answer to everything. Online harms don’t end as soon as you turn 15 or 16 or 17,” he said.
Last December, Australia became the first country to pass a law enforcing age limits on social media accounts.
The federal government plans to introduce an online harms bill and is consulting with an expert advisory group on what the legislation should look like. Miller, who is taking the lead on the file, declined to give a timeline for introducing the bill.
Miller said the government is leaving it to the expert group to weigh in on whether the legislation should also cover access to AI chatbots.
19) You can now edit comments you post on Instagram — but only within 15 minutes
Instagram has confirmed that users can now edit their comments after they've been posted.
Before today, the only solution was to delete the entire comment and post it again, a process that often felt clunky and disruptive to the flow of conversation.
The new feature comes with one specific catch i.e. you have a 15-minute window to make your changes. Once you post a comment, the clock starts ticking. If you spot a mistake or decide to rephrase your thought within that quarter-hour, you can simply tap and hold the comment to bring up the editing menu.
This time limit is likely a strategic move by Meta to prevent people from fundamentally changing the meaning of a conversation hours or days later. By keeping the window short, Instagram ensures that the feature is used for its intended purpose, rather than rewriting history after other users have already interacted with the original text.
If you find you can't yet edit an Instagram post or comment which you just made, check to see if there's an updated version of IG waiting to be installed.
On an iPhone or iPad, open the App Store, tap on the circle icon or initials in the top-left, tap on Updates, pull down in the middle of the screen and let go to have your device check for available app updates. Scroll up, and tap on Update All.
On an Android phone or tablet, open the Google Play Store, tap your profile icon (top right), tap on Manage apps & device, and look at the Updates available section — it instantly shows all apps with pending updates. Tap Update all or update apps individually.
21) A giant cell tower is scheduled to head to space on Sunday
This weekend’s scheduled Blue Origin rocket launch is rather momentous: success would signal an end to SpaceX’s monopoly on reusable orbital launch vehicles, and set up a three-way race to make that “No Service” indicator on your phone disappear forever.
On Sunday morning, Jeff Bezos’ massive New Glenn rocket is scheduled to launch with the first-stage booster that launched and landed on the program’s second mission last November. It’s a critical test, because cost-effective booster reuse is what’s made SpaceX’s Falcon 9 so dominate.
Amazon desperately needs a reusable rocket of its own to accelerate its Leo launches. Without one, it’s only been able to launch 241 Leo satellites, putting it well behind schedule. In that same 12-month time period, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket was able to deploy over 1,500 satellites to its Starlink constellation.
Sunday’s mission will carry AST SpaceMobile’s BlueBird 7 satellite to low Earth orbit. Instead of blanketing the region with thousands of small satellites like Amazon and SpaceX, AST’s plan is to deploy fewer satellites that are much more powerful. Bluebird 7 features a massive 2,400-square-foot phased-array antenna, making it the largest commercial communications array ever deployed in low Earth orbit. It’s essentially a cell tower in space, and will be the second of the company’s “Block 2” next-generation satellites to launch.
The BlueBird 7 is designed to provide 4G and 5G broadband, at speeds exceeding 120 Mbps, to the phones we already carry. AST plans to have 45 to 60 satellites launched by the end of this year. When AST lights up its service sometime this year, it'll be in direct competition with Starlink’s direct-to-cell service, already operating with T-Mobile in the US, and Globalstar, the satellite network snapped up by Amazon that keeps iPhones and Apple Watches communicating in dead zones.
24) We've also started compiling a list of our favourite phone apps
The "Our Favourite Apps" list — which will have a lot more added in the coming weeks — is on our home page, and you can also get to it by going to Tech-Talk.ca/apps.
25) California bear-suit luxury car scam ends in insurance fraud sentences for 3
Three people in California have been sentenced for insurance fraud in a bizarre scam that involved someone dressed in a bear costume damaging luxury cars.
The California Insurance Department says the three used a person in a bear suit to stage fake attacks inside a Rolls-Royce and two Mercedes in 2024, then submitted fraudulent claims seeking nearly US$142,000 in payouts from insurance companies. The department called it “Operation Bear Claw.”
Two Los Angeles-area men and a woman pleaded no contest to felony insurance fraud and were sentenced to a weekend jail program, followed by probation, the department said in a news release Thursday. Two off them were ordered to pay over $50,000 in restitution.
A fourth person faces a court hearing in September.
The group is accused of providing several videos from the San Bernardino Mountains of a bear moving inside the vehicles to the insurance companies as part of their damage claims, the department said. Photos provided by the insurance department show what appeared to be scratches on the seats and doors.
A California Department of Fish and Wildlife biologist reviewed the footage and concluded it was “clearly a human in a bear suit,” the insurance department said.
After executing a search warrant, detectives found the bear costume in the suspects’ home, the department said.
26) Kathryn's Paleontology News Item of the Week: U of Calgary sets new world record for people in dinosaur costumes: 682
The University of Calgary has roared into the Guinness World Records' roster.
Campus community members shattered the Guinness record for the largest gathering of people dressed as dinosaurs last Saturday.
"The record was 468. We broke it, so we are record holders with 682 people dressed in dinosaur costumes," said Verity Turpin, vice-provost of student experience at the university.
Professors, staff, students and several children danced to "We Are the Champions" by the British rock band Queen in their dinosaur onesies and inflated costumes after an adjudicator with Guinness announced the old record had become extinct in the university's quad.
The pevious largest gathering of people dressed as dinosaurs was 468 achieved by the Cox Science Center and Aquarium in West Palm Beach, Florida.
People in Drumheller, a town northeast of Calgary known for its large dinosaur fossil collection and the Royal Tyrell Museum, had previously tried to beat the record, but failed to get authenticated proof.
Homework videos (a.k.a. "time well wasted"!)
Check out our new YouTube Favourites playlist #2:
Our original Favourites playlist maxxed-out at 5000 videos; it's here…
Videos start at #40, so the numbers don't get thrown-off if we add more tech news items above!
40a) Watch the four Artemis II astronauts provide some brilliant answers in their first news conference after returning from their flight around the moon…
40b) Watch Ian Hanomansing chat with the four Artemis II astronauts, including Canada's Jeremy Hansen, about their ground-breaking mission…
41) Watch the reaction of more animals when French musician "Plumes" sits down and plays his guitar and sings to them…
42) Watch what happens when a new robot has a very bad debut…
43) Watch the Veritassium crew show how it's technically possible (but highly unlikely) to hack the Express Transit feature using a VISA card in iPhones…
44) Watch 950 drones recreate the Titanic setting sail from Belfast harbour on her fateful voyage…
45) Watch double-bass players from the Vienna Philharmonic perform Henry Mancini's "Pink Panther" theme…
46) Watch the U of Calgary set a new world record, 682, for the most people dressed in a dinosaur costume…
Thank you to everyone for helping me celebrate my 70th birthday on Friday!
Suzanne and I and our homestay students — Natsuki from Japan and Sofía from Spain — were joined by 10 of our friends for a Chinese birthday feast at Maple Palace over looking the Victoria Airport.
I also had a 40km birthday bike ride to Langford and back with my good friends Rick and Zack…
I was very touched by a special song which was written and sung by our former homestay student Emma and the rest of the Leo family in Pfaffenhofen, Germany…
Thanks to "Tech Talk" listener Thomas, who, knowing how much of a space fan I am, used Gemini AI to turn me into an astronaut, one of my bucket-list wishes which will have to remain a fantasy…
From Kathryn's dad, on the way to Calgary…
…and finally, our "Sign Of The Week"…
And so it goes…