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Your browser does not support the video element. The Roadster has, at long last, taken off — quite literally. Tesla unveiled its next-generation Roadster at a livestreamed event Thursday night, giving customers who have waited years their first fresh look at the EV maker's new halo car. In a dramatic demonstration, the Roadster traveled up a huge curved ramp until it was upside down. The car then flew off the ramp, flipped, and landed safely on the ground, thanks to thrusters attached to the bottom of the vehicle.

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Browse this and many other websites without banner ads, personalized tracking and video ads. During Tesla's jaw-dropping demonstration of a flying supercar on Thursday evening, the next-generation Roadster drove upside down, jumped over a series of cars, and executed a mid-air barrel roll. After years of hype, the company answered one big question on the minds of those who have followed the Roadster saga: Yes, this car will have SpaceX thrusters and be able to fly, at least to some degree.

With BDC Small Business Week again upon us starting this Monday (October 19), Peterborough County’s economic development general manager is reminding us that small businesses across the region drive the local economic engine. Rhonda Keenan says long before ‘Buy Local’ crossed the lips of politicians and business leaders across the country, that practice was key in fueling local economies. As such, she says it has long been a wider conversation that the county has worked endlessly to promote and encourage.

Canada’s cyber intelligence agency is planning the construction of a large new data centre in the Ottawa area at an estimated cost of up to $1.85-billion. The new data centre will address growing demands on the operations of the Communications Security Establishment, the federal agency that provides tech security and foreign signals intelligence, as well as fulfill the government’s desire to onshore sovereign data systems, according to two sources with knowledge of the plan. The federal government recently posted an advance procurement notice alerting the private sector that it intends to post a contracting opportunity early next year for a new data centre on the Ottawa side of the National Capital Region. The new data centre is planned to be a 60-megawatt facility, placing it among the country’s larger data centres. A national security source with knowledge of the project said the need for another data centre has been on CSE’s radar for some time. The agency’s capabilities and computing needs have increased in the face of a rapidly changing technological landscape and the proliferation of threats, the source said. CSE’s current data centre was designed over 15 years ago.

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Elon Musk promised a flying car. And the Tesla Roadster did exactly that. Tesla demonstrated its next-generation Roadster at an event in Waco, Texas, where the electric supercar drove upside down, briefly flew, and accelerated to 60mph in under a second. It was an impressive demonstration of a car that likely will come with some heavy caveats and restrictions if it ever goes into production. The event was less than 30 minutes and felt more like a stunt show than a product reveal. Indeed, there was no mention of price, release date, or other such mundane details. Musk promised the hypercar would go into production in 2028, but after nearly nine years who’s counting. The people were here to see a car fly, and that’s what Tesla gave them.1/5First, the Roadster drove up a very tall, multi-story ramp, using its incredible downforce to cling to the vertical roadway. When it reached the top of the ramp, it flipped around using its cold-gas thrusters to bring it gently back down to earth. The car uses a fan-based suction system, supplied by SpaceX and mounted underneath the vehicle, which is capable of generating up to two Gs of suction force.

On Thursday night, Tesla and CEO Elon Musk unveiled what’s been billed as the company’s last human-driven car. Maybe human-piloted is a more accurate way to say it. At a demonstration event in McGregor, Texas—at SpaceX’s rocket development and testing facility—the new car did what Musk has long promised. With a herky-jerky burst of steam, it flew into the air. At one point, the car appeared to flip over the automaker’s entire line-up, floating several feet over its electric semi-truck. Tesla executives said the vehicle could accelerate from 0 to 60 mph in one second. “This is not necessarily a safety-optimized car,” Musk said. (It’s also likely to raise the eyebrows of federal regulators.)Tesla says it will begin production on the Roadster 2 in 2028. Fans have waited a long time for the vehicle. The Roadster 2—the successor to Tesla’s first vehicle, the Roadster—was first announced in 2017, and at the time Tesla said the new sports car would be the fastest production vehicle in the world. The “flying” technology is enabled by four thrusters, Tesla vehicle engineering head Lars Moravy said.

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Meta on Thursday launched a new open-weight AI model which it claims rivals, and in some cases outperforms, similar products from leading Chinese developers. Muse Spark Open “is the most capable US open-weight model to date,” Meta’s chief of AI Alexandr Wang wrote on X. Unlike so-called closed models – such as Anthropic’s Claude or OpenAI’s ChatGPT – developers can download the parameters, known as weights and biases, of an open-weight model and modify them. Chinese developers have emerged as dominant players in the open-weight market for AI models over the past couple of years. Alibaba’s Qwen, Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 and Z.ai’s GLM models have been considered open-weight frontrunners globally, but Meta claims its new open model now competes on a similar level. “Built for coding and agentic work,” Muse Spark Open “excels at long-horizon tasks, complex software engineering, and multi-step reasoning,” Meta said in a blogpost, adding that “strong safeguards” have been integrated into the new model. Muse Spark Open is also “optimized” to run on Apple’s advanced M5 Ultra chips, Meta said, signaling an unusual partnership between the two tech companies.

WorldAn Israeli advertising agency has placed ads seen by millions of internet users that have left them open to spyware attacks, according to a new report from the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab. Ads left millions open to 'zero-click' spyware attacks, Citizen Lab saysListen to this articleEstimated 5 minutesThe audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. A new report by the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto says ads placed by an Israeli firm have placed millions of internet users at risk of 'zero-click' spyware attacks. (Graeme Roy/The Canadian Press)An Israeli advertising agency has placed ads seen by millions of internet users that have left them open to spyware attacks, according to a new report from the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab. The report, released on Thursday, alleges that Discover-Tech intentionally operates a platform that allows its "partners to de-anonymize, fingerprint, and automatically infect devices" with spyware.

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stock indexes muscled higher Thursday, led by companies delivering bigger profits. They pulled closer to their records even as stocks in the artificial-intelligence industry kept

Open this photo in gallery:Founder and CEO Mike Intrator poses for a photo during the company's IPO at the Nasdaq headquarters in March, 2025. CoreWeave is a tenant in Bell Canada parent BCE Inc.’s planned AI data centre in Saskatchewan. Michael M. Santiago/Getty ImagesInvestor concerns about debt levels associated with the AI build-out are weighing on the shares of several companies in the sector and pushing bond yields related to those infrastructure projects to distressed levels. CoreWeave Inc. CRWV-Q, a specialized “neocloud” AI compute provider, is one of two anchor tenants for Bell Canada parent BCE Inc.’s BCE-T planned AI data centre in Saskatchewan. The company’s shares have been among the most affected this week, as investors signal unease about extensive AI-related development financed with debt. CoreWeave’s stock dropped by 15 per cent on the Nasdaq exchange on Wednesday before bouncing back up by nearly 6 per cent on Thursday, buoyed in the afternoon when the chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp. NVDA-Q, Jensen Huang, publicly signalled his support for the company. The chip giant has invested billions of dollars into AI and neocloud companies, including CoreWeave.