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If you know a bit of Canadian history and politics, you will realize the province of Quebec is kind of a thing of its own. While the rest of Canada speaks English, have a common law legal system, and believes in a unified country, Quebec speaks French, have a civil law legal system, and always had movement that demands political sovereignty, but still wants money from the federal government. If you think the latter point is kind of ridiculous...

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If you browse the Internet enough, you will often find pictures of unbelievably big or small versions of things you can normally imagine. These things can vary from all sorts of items, whether it is food, animals, toys, or even day to day objects. However, with the way digital media is, these pictures can be altered in order to make things appear bigger or smaller when they actually are not. Uploaders often place another normal sized object into...

VMware-AWS deal could drive more companies into the cloud

From InfoWorld: The cloud partnership AWS and VMware announced Thursday makes Amazon's public cloud even more attractive for enterprises by letting them take the popular virtualization platform with them.

The appropriately named VMware Cloud on AWS , announced at a press conference in San Francisco...

Galaxy Note 7 recall will cost Samsung about $3B

From CNET: The South Korean company on Thursday said discontinuing its device, which it recalled for a second time this week for battery issues, will hurt its operating profit in the mid-3 trillion won range from the fourth quarter of 2016 through the first quarter of 2017. That's about $3 billion...

HP to cut up to 4,000 jobs in next three years

From PC World: HP Inc. is cutting between 3,000 to 4,000 jobs over the next three years as part of a restructuring plan worked out by the company.

The PC and printer firm, which was created about a year ago after Hewlett-Packard was split into two companies, said in a filing to the Securities and...

Yahoo hack gives Verizon pause in $4.8B deal

From CNET: The wireless carrier's general counsel has told some reporters, including the Washington Post, that Verizon is leaning toward declaring Yahoo's huge data breach a "material event." That likely means Verizon wouldn't have offered as much money -- or made a bid for Yahoo at all -- had it...

Gitless simplifies Git version control

From InfoWorld: Gitless, an experimental version control system built atop Git, could make life easier for developers who find Git difficult to use.

"Many people complain that Git is hard to use," the project's web page states. "We think the problem lies deeper than the user interface, in the...

Amazon will hire 120,000 temporary workers this holiday season

From CNET: Amazon will be hiring more than 120,000 seasonal workers in the US this year, the company said Thursday. The jobs will span 27 states and cover customer service sites, sortation centers and fulfillment centers. That's about 20,000 more positions than last year.

The e-commerce giant kept...

IBM's Cleversafe storage platform is becoming a cloud service

From PC World: If dispersing data among storage nodes can make it more secure and less prone to loss, wouldn’t spreading it across far-flung cloud data centers make it even more so?

If so, IBM has the right idea with its Cloud Object Storage service, which uses SecureSlice object storage technology...

Samsung recalls Note 7 (again) as US agency makes it official

From CNET: If you're a Samsung Galaxy Note 7 owner, you're feeling a little deja vu right now.

That's because Samsung and the US Consumer Product Safety Commission have once again issued a recall for your phone -- even though you may have already replaced it. The notice comes two days after Samsung...