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If you’ve been to a festival or large open-air event, you will know that keeping your mobile phone charged can be a potential nightmare. Solutions have come in the form of independent companies setting up camps and charging fesitval-goers to power their smartphones so that they could remain contactable and use them to snap photos of their favourite bands. However, one truck looks set to change all that. The Vodafone VIP recharging truck is heading to 11 festivals this year, offering Vodafone customers with the opportunity to charge their mobile devices, completely free of charge....

TLDR:The Global Drone 4K Platinum Version is a compact, durable, stable flying drone with a fantastic 4K camera onboard, all for less than $100 with this extra Memorial Day Sale deal. The way drones have become an everyday part of life is fascinating enough, but as the proliferation continues, their creep is spreading into places you likely never expected. Sony is working on a patent for technology that woulduse a network of drones to throw a noise cancellation netover a space, particularly in a busy open area like a public park or outdoor shopping area....

Talking about the future is nonsense because it is, even at it’s best, informed guesswork. We can talk about now, interesting, unusual things, happening now, but that rarely seems to interest anyone except the person talking. We can talk about the past, which is interesting because no one can ever remember it precisely, because nothing actually happens precisely, it is an amalgam of perspectives and sometimes we can’t even get the order right....

Even though many Canadians spent much of last week gearing up for a long weekend (it’s BC Day here in my province, and several others are celebrating “civic” holidays today), Canadian copyright reform advocate and self-appointed Internet service provider watchdog Michael Geist spent much of it breaking down the actual cost of a gigabyte. What his calculations discovered is that Canada’s ISPs have much to celebrate no matter what day of the year it is, and Canadian Internet subscribers are being hosed no matter what season of the year it is....

TLDR:Right now, you can pick up Google’s portable powerhouse Google Home Mini speaker and home assistant for almost 60 percent off, just $19.95. If you’d told someone 20 years ago that by 2021, you could control practically everything in your home through a device that costs less than $20, no one would have believed you. Yet enter the smart speaker revolution and behold — devices that cost less than a large pizza can answer your questions, read you your messages, tell you the weather, play you music, and control a vast network of web-enabled home devices in one compact voice-driven little hockey puck....