I usually go swimming weekly during the summer months. Swimming is a great way to cool down from the heat of the day, not to mention the place where I work -- the University of Calgary -- has an excellent lane swimming facility that I have unlimited access to. Of course, I only go swimming recreationally; I am by no means anywhere close to being the best swimmer of the bunch -- my Bronze Cross certification I got more than a decade ago is for...
There have been many changes in my life since I have moved to Ontario. First is just learning what Ontario is like, especially in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). The GTA stretches over a large area and many people live here. There are no mountains to look to like there was in Calgary and it seems like everything is always busy. I have found that the pace of life is different, which has been something to adjust to. Apart from the differences in...
From The Verge: The FCC has proposed an almost $13 million fine for a man it says was behind a series of racist and anti-semitic robocalling campaigns consisting of over 6,000 calls being placed across six states. The man is accused of using anti-semitic and racist tropes to attack political...
From PC Mag: The Switch continues to sell incredibly well, but Nintendo isn't one to miss an opportunity to bolster sales, so we're getting a special edition Switch console with a design inspired by Animal Crossing: New Horizons.
As the Nintendo of America tweet below clearly shows, Nintendo has...
From CNET: It's OK if you got motion sickness from following Amazon's earnings reports over the past year.
Case in point: The e-commerce heavyweight's profits crashed in the second and third quarters of 2019, following a heady string of record earnings. And just when profits seemed to be on their...
From The Verge: Huawei overtook Apple to become the world’s second best selling smartphone manufacturer in 2019, according to reports from Strategy Analytics, Counterpoint Research, and Canalys. Over the course of the year, the Chinese manufacturer reportedly shipped around 240 million phones...
From PC Mag: Two mobile operating systems dominate the smartphone market, but while iOS may be limited to Apple's own devices, it looks as though Android is about to branch out on to feature phones for the first time.
As XDA Developers reports, a new feature phone model has appeared on the Wi-Fi...
From CNET: Lyft hasn't experienced a smooth ride on Wall Street since it went public last March. In an attempt to rein in costs, the ride-hailing company announced Wednesday that it's laying off 90 employees from its marketing and enterprise sales departments. The news was first reported by The New...
From The Verge: Wireless carriers are expected to start boosting LTE speeds and augmenting their 5G rollouts later this year with a swath of spectrum that, as of this week, is finally ready for commercial use. Many popular phones — including Apple’s iPhone 11, Samsung’s Galaxy S10, and Google’s...
From PC Mag: Avast plans on exploring "further changes" to the company's practice of selling users' browser histories to third-party companies. But in the meantime, the antivirus vendor will try to opt more users into the data-sharing, despite the privacy risks.
On Tuesday, the company published a...
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