23-year-old Daniel Cressy just became the first person in Louisiana to be functionally cured of sickle cell disease through gene therapy https://t.co/snRE0wOGaP
This is your friendly reminder that data centres don’t actually need water. They need a cooling system and are using water because it’s the cheapest way to do it.
Fun fact: Many condo developers in Canada are backed by foreign banks, developers, and equity groups. Your government wants to bail out foreign Institutional Investors with your taxes.
Prime minster Carney has passed a law allowing the use of banned pesticides. CBC reports that ministers can "greenlight any pesticide that ministers feel is in the interest of economic or national food security."
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BBC Sport has a live World Cup knockout bracket updating after every match.
Some clever soul has made it so it automatically works out the 495 possible combinations of third-placed teams.
Right now?
Germany v Brazil
England v Portugal
Scotland v Japan
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Wow. Meta is trying to legislate its way out of the social media addiction trials. Speaks volumes about how big a threat this is to their business.
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Age verification started with porn and social media. Now, governments are passing laws requiring operating systems to collect your age before you can use your computer at all. https://t.co/gq8NNIzDdg
For anyone who is new to this team, Ismael Kone is arguably the teams best midfielder. He is on his way to becoming a star in European football. This is an enormous loss.
The games have been great but this has really been such a terrible World Cup outside of those stadiums. FIFA was banking on the excitement over the games quieting the political conversation, but the mistreatment of so many teams and fans have been the defining story.
If you pay for your VPN through the Canadian banking system (eg. credit card), the government can compel the banks to hand over a list of those who've paid for VPN.
Then, with the new powers of Bill C-8, a government Minister can cancel your internet without a court order.