How to sign up for Wendy's Canada's Rewards Program

Wendy's has finally brought its loyalty program to Canada through its app! You just need to sign up via email, Facebook, or Google account to earn points on almost any Wendy's item. You can earn 10 points for every $1 spent on food and drinks. You can earn when you place an order for pickup or delivery with Wendy's app or on the website, or scan the QR code in the app at the counter or pickup window when placing an order.

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Google Play Games for Windows opens beta channel in Canada

Canada joins a handful of countries that can now access Google Play Games for Windows. This service lets you play Android games on your Windows PC. It started as a closed beta program in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and South Korea. But now, the service moves to an open beta channel and expands availability to Canada, Australia, Brazil, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and the United States.

There are now over 60 titles to play, and Google has lowered the minimum hardware requirements for running Play Games for Windows. You just need a Windows 10 machine with a quad-core CPU and integrated graphics. You can try it out by downloading the beta from Google's official site.

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Meta reportedly plans mass layoffs this week

Meta might be laying off several thousand of its employees this week. The Wall Street Journal cited unnamed sources familiar with the company's plans that an announcement might come as soon as Wednesday. If accurate, these layoffs will be the first large-scale workforce reduction in its 18-year history. Facebook's parent company is reportedly looking to slash its costs by at least 10% within the next few months.

These cost-cutting efforts show how companies, which make money through ads, are looking to rein in spending following the tech industry's rapid growth during the pandemic. Meta currently employs 87,000 people. And its CEO Mark Zuckerberg hinted during its third-quarter earnings call that job cuts might be imminent.

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Apple reportedly wants you to say 'Siri' instead of 'Hey Siri' as a trigger phrase

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Apple is supposedly looking to swap Siri's trigger phrase. Instead of "Hey Siri," the company just wants you to use "Siri." Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reported that this feature has been in the works for the past several months, and it's expected to come out next year or in 2024. But Apple needs to put in a "significant amount of AI training and underlying engineering work" to get this feature to function properly. Its smart assistant will need to understand that single wake word in different accents and dialects. The "Hey Siri" two-word trigger phrase has a better chance of the smart assistant picking it up.

Changing to the single wake word will put Apple in line with Amazon's Alexa and give it an edge over Google Assistant. But the latter doesn't need the wake word when you're saying back-to-back commands. Aside from the shorter trigger phrase, Apple is exploring third-party integration for Siri and improvements in its ability to process user requests.

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