Save $100 on the iPad Air | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge The 2020 model of the iPad Air has been discounted to its lowest price ever. Normally, this slim tablet costs $599.99 but has been discounted to … Continue reading The latest iPad Air is selling for its lowest price ever
Mark Zuckerberg’s lifelike 3D avatar | Meta Facebook parent company Meta is introducing 3D avatars to Instagram Stories and direct messages and updating the avatars in Facebook and Messenger, the company announced Monday. People in the US, Canada, and Mexico … Continue reading Meta adds 3D avatars to Instagram Stories, with updates for Messenger and Facebook
Hamilton police are appealing for information following a hit-and-run that resulted in the death of a 70-year-old man and his dog over the weekend. Source: CP24 Continue reading Man and dog killed in Hamilton hit-and-run
We’re in the business of talking to very impressive people who are working to solve incredibly tough problems— but Elizabeth Ruzzo, founder and CEO of adyn, may be one of the most impressive yet. Not only did she develop the … Continue reading How one founder aims to both improve women’s health right now, and the gender gap in research
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Food and Drug Administration has granted full approval to the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, the company announced today. The Moderna vaccine joins the Pfizer / BioNTech shot as the second licensed vaccine against … Continue reading Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine gets full FDA approval
XKCD creator Randall Munroe has announced his latest science book: What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions, which will delve into new out-of-the-box questions that Munroe attempts to answer with hard scientific facts and research. What … Continue reading XCKD’s Randall Munroe announces What If? 2, with more scientific answers to life’s most absurd hypothetical questions
Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he was “extremely disturbed” to see truck convoy protestors vandalizing monuments and showcasing symbols of hate as they demonstrated on Parliament Hill over the weekend. Source: CP24 Continue reading Premier Ford says he is 'extremely disturbed' to see hateful symbols at trucker protest
More than 15 per cent of staff and students in Toronto public schools were absent on Friday, according to data provided by school boards to the Ontario government. Source: CP24 Continue reading Fifteen per cent of all Toronto public school staff and students were absent on Friday, Jan. 28
Ryan Breslow, who founded the “one-click” checkout tech company Bolt as a Stanford student and dropped out of college to build it, is stepping away as the company’s CEO seven years into his reign. Breslow, who says the decision is … Continue reading Following his fiery Twitter tirades, Bolt founder Ryan Breslow is no longer CEO — and he says it’s his choice
Deepnote, a startup that is building a data science platform on top of Jupyter-compatible notebooks, today announced that it has raised a $20 million Series A round co-led by Index Ventures and Accel, both of which also participated in its … Continue reading Deepnote raises $20M for its collaborative data science notebooks
