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3 days agoCurrent Event canuck
Siri’s ignominious honor: Most accurate Apple leaker
Last week, Siri leaked the date and time of the upcoming Apple event. And this wasn’t the first time Apple’s own virtual assistant told the world about an upcoming event before the official announcement. So step back Jon Prosser. Stand aside Mark Gurman. Siri is now the most accurate Apple leaker.
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7 days agoAchievement canuck
Helping Hand
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7 days agoHow-to canuck
GB FOOD RECIPES: Lamb Keema curry
Place the ground lamb keema in a larger stainless steel bowl. Chop the garlic very finely and add to the meat together with 1 small cup of natural yoghurt, salt and turmeric. Mix everything well. Cover the meat and let it steep for at least 1 hour.
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8 days agoCurrent Event canuck
Burdened by debt and unable to eke out a living, many farmers in India turn to suicide
Kiran Kaur surveys her family's paltry plot of land in Mansa, in the northern Indian state of Punjab, and gestures dismissively at the three acres of wheat that will soon yield to cotton plants, which bring in little profit. "Cotton is a complete failure for us," she said. Prices are low, and the cost of producing the fibre is far too high.
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9 days agoCurrent Event canuck
Officer who shot, killed Daunte Wright and Brooklyn Center police chief both resign
Minnesota police officer Kim Potter resigned from her position Tuesday after shooting and killing Daunte Wright.
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9 days agoCurrent Event canuck
Snow chaos in Europe caused by melting sea-ice in the Arctic
They are diligently stoking thousands of bonfires on the ground close to their crops, but the French winemakers are fighting a losing battle. An above-average warm spell at the end of March has been followed by days of extreme frost, destroying the vines with losses amounting to 90 percent above average. The image of the struggle may well be the most depressingly beautiful illustration of the complexities and unpredictability of global climate warming. It is also an agricultural disaster from Bo...
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11 days agoCurrent Event canuck
Study suggests one in three Swiss entertains Covid conspiracy theories
Coronavirus conspiracy theories have gained traction with around a third of people who responded to an academic survey in Switzerland and Germany.
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2 weeks agoExpression canuck
Are you foolish enough to innovate?
“Stay hungry, stay foolish” — Steve Jobs How can you make a great breakthrough? How can you start the next era-defining business, write the next great song, create the next political mo…
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event canuck
Facebook Says It’s Your Fault That Hackers Got Half a Billion User Phone Numbers
A database containing the phone numbers of more than half a billion Facebook users is being freely traded online, and Facebook is trying to pin the blame on everyone but themselves.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event canuck
Surprise, Surprise! Super Mario 3D All-Stars Prices Skyrocket As Scalpers Set Up Shop
The Super Mario 3D All-Stars collection is no longer for sale, and sure enough, prices of physical copies are beginning to surge online. Some scalpers are now requesting hundreds and even thousands of dollars for individual copies of Nintendo's limited-release on websites such as eBay. Nintendo Switch subreddit user, TommyFrickster789, explains how prices for new but essentially second-hand copies are already out of hand.
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1 month agoCurrent Event canuck
Lawyers used sheepskin as anti-fraud device for hundreds of years to stop fraudsters pulling the woo
Medieval and early modern lawyers chose to write on sheepskin parchment because it helped prevent fraud, new analysis suggests. Experts have identified the species of animals used for British legal documents dating from the 13th to 20th century, and have discovered they were almost always written on sheepskin, rather than goatskin or calfskin vellum.
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1 month agoAnalysis canuck
Why do Americans share so much fake news? One big reason is they aren’t paying attention, new research suggests
Americans who share fake news on social media might not lack media literacy skills. Chances are they don't stop to check accuracy, a new study suggests.
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1 month agoCurrent Event canuck
LG Looking to Shut Down Smartphone Business After Failing to Find a Buyer
LG is looking to close down its entire smartphone division after failing to find a buyer for the ailing section of its business, according to the Korea Herald.
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1 month agoExpression canuck
Young female Japanese biker is really 50-year-old man with luscious hair using FaceApp
Can't trust everything you see online these days.
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1 month agoCurrent Event canuck
2.9-ton battery pallet becomes largest object discharged from space station
A pallet of batteries was released from the International Space Station, becoming the heaviest single piece of junk ever jettisoned from the station. Mission controllers in Houston commanded the Canadarm2 robotic arm to release an external pallet loaded with the 2.9 tons of nickel-hydrogen batteries into Earth's orbit Thursday morning.
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1 month agoAnalysis canuck
France grossly underestimated radioactive fallout from atom bomb tests, study finds
Declassified documents suggest 90% of French Polynesians received significant exposure
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1 month agoCurrent Event canuck
The Walking Dead showrunner talks about Season 11
The Walking Dead showrunner Angela Kang talks about Season 11, teasing that Leah's storyline may not to be wrapped up soon. More details follow.
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1 month agoCurrent Event canuck
Prince William: "We Are Very Much Not a Racist Family"
Prince William said Thursday that the royal family was not racist, also sharing that he has not yet spoken to his brother since Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's explosive interview with Oprah Winfrey.