Elon Musk unveiled a "close to production" prototype of Tesla’s humanoid robot on Friday—the good news is we probably don’t have to fear a machine uprising anytime soon; the bad news is we probably also will have to keep doing our own chores for a while longer, at least.

What happened: Tesla’s Optimus robot had to be wheeled onto the stage at the company’s AI Day event before taking a few steps and waving to the crowd.

After two years of COVID-era Halloweens that veered away from the spooky and into the downright grim, Canadians are ready to get back to normal for this year’s haunted festivities.

Driving the news: 86% of Canadians will spend more (or the same) on Halloween as last year, and more than half who celebrate will spend at least $50, according to a survey by the Retail Council of Canada.

For the first time ever, Meta—the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp—plans to reduce its headcount and cut budgets across most teams. 

Text messages made public as part of Elon Musk’s court fight with Twitter (along with being highly entertaining) shed insight into his early motivations for buying the business and show how Silicon Valley heavyweights rallied to his cause.

Next time you need to drop off a package, would you consider also applying for a loan? Well, at least you’ll now have the option.

Russia will annex four regions in Ukraine today after tightly controlled “referendums” that Kremlin officials claim resulted in 99% of locals voting to join Russia (weirdly, North Korea’s ruling party often wins their elections with similar margins).

You’ve probably heard of pickleball—the fastest-growing sport in North America two years running. And if you haven’t, maybe you’ve at least heard it because it’s so darn loud. 

Acoustics aside, with millions now playing it, big-name investors are betting people want to watch it, too. 

These days, “Google it” no longer has that same magical, all-knowing ring it once did. I know it. You know it. And Google knows it, which is why it's trying to bring Search into the future. 

A new drug slowed the rate of cognitive decline in Alzheimer’s patients in large-scale clinical trials, according to its developers Biogen and Eisai.

If there’s one thing denizens of the World Wide Web can agree on, it’s that CAPTCHAs suck. 

The bot-preventing security measures are time-consuming and confusing—how many times have you struggled to identify all the grainy images containing the tiniest sliver of a bicycle just to satisfy a robotic arbiter of your humanity? 

Surely, there must be a better way.

Employers have devised a novel plan to retain and sustain their workforce during these trying times of low unemployment and rising prices: It’s called “paying people more,” and it’s all the rage. 

In what sounds like a James Bond plot, Danish, German, and Polish officials believe that leaks in Russia’s Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines were likely caused by acts of sabotage.   

There’s buyer’s remorse over that late-night online shopping spree, and then there’s another level of buyer’s remorse entirely (to the tune of $1 trillion)—the latter is what China is experiencing right now as it tries to salvage its troubled Belt and Road infrastructure initiative.

Vancouver-based International Battery Metals (IBAT) is proving that sometimes companies with comically non-descript names can still do some pretty exciting things.

A top exec getting arrested for biting someone’s nose is somehow not Beyond Meat’s biggest concern these days. As of late, the plant-based meat market has crumbled more than pea-protein ground beef.  

The British economy is experiencing some serious turbulence—or an omnishambles, they might say across the pond—as investors give a big thumbs down to the UK government’s new fiscal plan.

The International Telecommunications Union (ITU), the UN body responsible for setting global communications standards, will elect its new leader this week—a decision that could shape the future of the internet.  

Canada is headed for a moderate recession beginning next quarter mainly due to rising interest rates, according to an economic forecasting model developed by Oxford Economics.

Driving the news: There’s now a 63% chance of a recession in the next six months, according to the model, a probability threshold that has been passed in four of Canada’s six most recent recessions.

Canadian troops arrived in Nova Scotia to help clean up in the wake of Fiona, a hurricane-strength post-tropical storm that swept through the region over the weekend. 

Catch up: The storm left more than half a million people in Atlantic Canada without power on Saturday, and 344,000 outages were still being reported as of Sunday (including almost the entirety of Prince Edward Island), according to PowerOutage.com.