Friday, September 8, 2017

Best Buy pulls Kaspersky's antivirus software from its shelves

Amid growing concern/speculation/hysteria that Kaspersky Lab products could be tied to the Russian government, retailer Best Buy has stopped selling its antivirus. Minnesota's StarTribune first reported the move, citing a source who said that the com...
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Equifax tries to explain its response to a massive security breach

A day after announcing that hackers stole personal information tied to 143 million people in the US, Equifax's response to the breach has come under scrutiny. Language on the website where people could find out if they were affected seemed to say tha...
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Here's a full-length look at SpaceX's spacesuit

Elon Musk dropped a carefully cropped look at the SpaceX suit for astronauts on his Instagram a couple of weeks ago, and came back with a more revealing picture today. Modeled in front of the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft, it gives a better idea o...
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The UN wants all drones registered in a global database

The United Nations' aviation agency, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), plans to support a single worldwide drone registry. This singular ledger would be easier for law enforcement to sift through than each country's individual UAV...
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Canada’s support for Pacific Islands region

Matt DeCourcey, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, today announced $2.6 million in funding to support the Pacific Islands region.
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The first 'Destiny 2' expansion will reintroduce players to Osiris

If you've already finished Destiny 2's campaign and are grinding through the endgame, here's some news you might be interested in. The first expansion for developer Bungie's shared-world shooter is dubbed "Curse of Osiris," named for the infamous mul...
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‘Futurama’ returns for a one-off, 42-minute podcast episode

Apparently, the folks over at Nerdist "spend every waking hour of every day wishing that Futurama was still on TV." We're big fans of the show, for sure, but we still spend a few hours during our days thinking of other things, like anime parodies and...
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Facebook and Instagram are home to the new 'Club Mickey Mouse' show

The show that gave us Ryan Gosling, Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake and Annette Funicello is getting retooled for modern audiences. Except instead of Club Mickey Mouse broadcasting on Disney Channel, like Mickey Mouse Club did before it, the show w...
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US carriers partner on a better mobile authentication system

Two-factor authentication (2FA) via SMS and a smartphone provides a heavy dose of additional security for your data, but as the US government declared last year, it's not without its flaws. To fix that, the big four US mobile operators, Sprint, T-Mob...
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Facebook's widening role in electing Trump

Facebook admitted this week that a Russian propaganda mill used the social media giant's ad service for political operation around the 2016 campaign. This came out when sources revealed to The Washington Post on Wednesday that Facebook was grilled by...
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The LG V30 is the perfect smartphone for vlogging

When LG took the wraps off of the LG V30 at IFA last week, it spent nearly 20 of its 50-minute presentation talking about the phone's dual camera system. Juno Cho, President of Mobile Communications, rattled off statistics like "almost 80 percent of...
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Biography: The Honourable Wayne Wouters

The Honourable Wayne G. Wouters is a Strategic and Policy Advisor with McCarthy Tétrault LLP.
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Medium adds Bloomberg and other publications to subscription service

In a push to monetize its publishing platform, Medium added a $5 Netflix-style subscription last March. The system includes a way for members to "clap" different posts to give creators a percentage of their membership fee as well. Now Medium is bring...
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Press A to change your life: 'Otis' and the new American cinema

Reality is a lie. Everything we experience is filtered through thick veils of of personal baggage, self-interest and delusion, constantly skewing the world into the most comforting state possible. Universes of fragile concepts stand between what you...
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Snapchat plans to add college newspapers to its Discover section

A plethora of publishers have joined Snapchat's safe news digest, Discover, since it launched back in January. Some are straight news, like NBC and CNN, while others are culture outlets like Buzzfeed and Vulture -- in other words, most are broadly-ap...
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APEC Business Advisory Council and biographical note

The APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC), established in 1995, provides a forum for business and political leaders in the Asia-Pacific region to meet and discuss issues related to trade and economic cooperation. ABAC comprises as many as three individuals from each of the 21 APEC members, with business representatives appointed by APEC leaders. Canada’s ABAC representatives help advance Canadian business interests in the Asia-Pacific region. The Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada acts as Canada’s ABAC’s secretariat.
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Royal Academy of Arts will showcase VR's influence on artists

This winter, the UK's Royal Academy of Arts will host an exhibit about making art from life, how it has been done throughout history and how technology like VR is influencing artists today. The From Life exhibit will include a look at life drawing, s...
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YouTube HDR is available for a bunch of new phones

The Galaxy S8 will already play Netflix in high-dynamic range video, and now the handset (and its cousin, the Note 8) is the home for YouTube HDR. Reddit users have had access to the update since yesterday at resolutions up to 1140p60, while SamMobil...
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What’s the deal with Google and HTC?

Rumors out of Taiwan suggest that Google is preparing to purchase some, or all, of HTC's smartphone division. If true, it would mark a sad end for the company that built the first Android phone. What's not clear, however, is why Google wants to buy H...
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Backgrounder: Vancouver - New funding will help support a vibrant gender equality movement across Canada

Projects will engage local women leaders in pan-Canadian network to support a thriving gender equality movement
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Spotify's music event picks up where Apple left off

Apple may believe that hosting music festivals is old hat, but don't tell that to Spotify. It just announced Who We Be, an event based around the popular hip-hop and grime playlist (it has 143,000 subscribers) of the same name. The November 30th ga...
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Prosecutors want Shkreli’s bail revoked due to online harassment

On Thursday, US prosecutors petitioned a court to revoke Martin Shkreli's $5 million bail due to a remark made on Facebook about Hillary Clinton. Prosecutors said it was evidence he posed a "danger to the community." On September 4th, Shkreli reporte...
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Google's Dashboard redesign simplifies your privacy tools

Google announced today that its Dashboard feature is getting a big update including a new look and simpler controls. In a statement, the company said that it asked over 4,000 people last year across 15 countries to give them feedback on privacy and s...
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Facebook may spend $1 billion on original video in 2018

We've been aware of Facebook's video ambitions for awhile now. Last month, it replaced the "Video" button with a "Watch" tab, which was designed to be the landing page for Facebook's push into original TV shows. What we didn't know, though, was just...
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The best media streaming devices

By Chris Heinonen This post was done in partnership with The Wirecutter, a buyer's guide to the best technology. When readers choose to buy The Wirecutter's independently chosen editorial picks, it may earn affiliate commissions that support its wor...
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Backgrounder: Canada and Alberta fund three additional public transit projects

A new list of transit projects has been approved under the Canada-Alberta Public Transit Infrastructure Fund and Clean Water and Wastewater Fund Bilateral Agreement. Altogether, the Province of Alberta will receive up to $347,190,000 from the federal government for public transit projects under the Agreement with federal contributions covering up to 50 per cent of the eligible project costs. The Government of Alberta and municipalities will contribute the balance.
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Zelle's bank-backed payments app launches September 12th

We've been talking about Zelle, a mobile payments system backed by over 30 major US banks, for over a year now, but the service has yet to release a standalone app. That is, until now. Zelle's app is finally launching on Tuesday, September 12th. It w...
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‘Arms’ update adds user-customizable controls

Nintendo announced today on Twitter that the Switch fighting game Arms is getting an update that will probably make a lot of players pretty happy. With version 3, Arms will let users map the controls to the buttons they prefer, which is good since a...
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