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| May 5, 2023 | Billionaire Peter Thiel says he's signed up to be frozen and preserved when he dies so people can revive him in the future — if the tech even works | Peter Thiel says he's going to be cryogenically preserved, though he isn't sure if the tech works.
He told independent journalist Bari Weiss that it's "the sort of thing we're supposed to try to do."
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| Mar 19, 2020 | Coronavirus Cancellation Tracker: More Than 83 Million Affected After Events Cancelled Or Rescheduled | Last updated April 22, 12:49 p.m. |
| Aug 20, 2019 | New Paramilitary Training Video Emerges of Neo-Nazi Terror Group | Disturbing images showing eight masked men shooting what appears to be a combination of shotguns and assault rifles is the latest propaganda posted by neo-Nazi extremist network The Base, as the group garners the attention of law enforcemen... |
| Nov 16, 2018 | Canadian Politician Hangs Out With Racists; Issues Legal Threats To People Calling Him A Racist | A Canadian politician is getting upset — litigiously upset — that people are characterizing him by the company he keeps. Parliament member Kerry Diotte’s legal rep (Arthur Hamilton of Cassel Brock Lawyers) has sent takedown demands to a han... |
| Sep 19, 2017 | Custom skate biz glides to top | True Temper Sports expands Winnipeg group’s personalized-fit technology — and NHL clients love it
By: Martin Cash
Original Post: https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/business/custom-skate-biz-glides-to-top-445589283.html
Only three years ag... |
| Sep 29, 2016 | Down Goes Brown's Grab Bag: The Oilers' Scary Mascot, and How the NHL Messed up Again | (Editor's note: Welcome to Sean McIndoe's weekly grab bag, where he writes on a variety of NHL topics. You can follow him on Twitter.)
Outrage of the week
The issue: The Edmonton Oilers unveiled their first-ever mascot this week.
The outrag... |
| Jun 5, 2016 | Axl Rose Sends DMCA Notices to Google Targeting ‘Fat’ Photo | As regularly documented in these pages, copyright holders expend a lot of energy trying to protect their work from Internet piracy.
The tried and tested method is to issue a DMCA takedown notice to webhosts and platforms such as Google, Fac... |
| Feb 21, 2016 | Technopreneur Will.i.am Wants Gadgets You Can Have Conversations With | Louise Chan, Tech Times 21 February 2016, 06:02 am
Musician and entrepreneur Will.i.am of The Black Eyed Peas fame revealed in a Feb. 19 interview that he wants to develop screenless devices that can hold their own in a conversation.
No, it... |
| Jan 21, 2016 | Here's How Police in Canada Are Becoming More Militarized | The C8 Carbine is advertised as having "been battle proven in harsh combat environments … for over 25 years," but, according to the Toronto police, the weapon's lightness and accuracy also makes it well-suited for Canada's urban e... |
| Aug 17, 2015 | This Ex-KGB Agent Lived in a Church for Six Years to Avoid Deportation From Canada | A former member of the KGB has left Canada, six years after he sought sanctuary in a British Columbia church.
Facing deportation to Russia in 2009, Mikhail Lennikov decided to live in Vancouver's First Lutheran Church to avoid being separat... |
| May 22, 2015 | Newspapers’ ongoing search for subscription revenue: from paywalls to micropayments | It’s no mystery that newspapers are struggling to make money: between 2006 and 2014, the industry lost approximately 30 billion dollars in advertising.
In response, many news publishers have experimented with ways to increase digital advert... |
| Jan 4, 2015 | Pakistani Entrepreneur To Display Less Expensive Smart Home Technology At CES Las Vegas 2015 | Salman Qureshi, a Karachi based US entrepreneur, will display a less expensive smart home technology at Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2015 to be held in Las Vegas next week. He will participate in the Show Stopper event of the massively p... |
| Dec 5, 2014 | Canadian Law Enforcement Agency Dropping Cases Rather Than Deal With New Warrant Requirements For ISP Subscriber Info | A funny thing happens when courts start requiring more information from law enforcement: law enforcers suddenly seem less interested in zealously enforcing the law. |
| Jul 25, 2014 | "Omar Khadr's Lawyers in U.S. Threatened Over Release of Court Documents" | That is the headline to an article in the Winnipeg Free Press, which I came across today. The piece concerns recent proceedings in Omar Khadr's (stayed) appeal before the Court of Military Commission Review. It opens thus:
TORONTO - A U.S. ... |
| Jun 3, 2012 | Groups protest Nova Scotia aquaculture policy | Coastal communities in Nova Scotia are uniting to halt expansion plans for ocean-based salmon farms in the province.
More than 100 community groups and organizations will be in Halifax on Monday to protest the government's lack of public co... |
| May 24, 2012 | As Usual, Media Outlets Mindlessly Parrot BSA Press Releases With Zero Scrutiny | When the BSA released its annual report on software piracy, Mike dubbed it “Bogus Stats Again”, because as usual it employs plenty of ridiculous methodologies and unfounded assumptions to inflate the supposed economic loss. The BSA doesn’t ... |
| Apr 25, 2012 | Dick Cheney as a road map for heart tech | MassDevice.com On Call | MASSDEVICE ON CALL — Former Vice President Dick Cheney’s long-running battle with heart disease also traces the evolution of cardiovascular medical technologies.
The New York Times traced Cheney’s heart history as it correlated to important... |
| Mar 15, 2012 | Newfoundland seafood landings worth CAD 1b | Newfoundland and Labrador’s Fisheries Department says seafood production in the province was worth more than CAD 1 billion in 2011.
The department says that’s an increase of 7.3 percent over the previous year.
It credits higher market price... |
| Oct 7, 2011 | Computer virus hits US Predator and Reaper drone fleet | Photograph by Bryan William Jones reader comments 182 with 128 posters participating
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| Oct 1, 2011 | Bigelow Eyes Canadian Business [Winnipeg Free Press] | Bigelow Aerospace, which hopes to deploy an inflatable habitation module on orbit in the coming years, views the Canadian government as a potential customer, according to an article that appeared in the Winnepeg Free Press.
Mike Gold, a Big... |
| Feb 3, 2011 | Comcast joins Time Warner Cable over streaming content: Roundup | Every Thursday morning at 8:30 a.m. EST, find all the stories you need to know about your friendly telecommunications giant in the Comcast Roundup. Get ane-mail subscription for our Comcast news updates.
Two Hints at Stepped-Up Media Rivalr... |
| Aug 30, 2010 | Google's Social Buying Spree Continues With Mobile Gaming Developer SocialDeck | In its quest to build the most powerful gaming platform on the web, Google has made another purchase today: game developer SocialDeck. Inside Social Games first reported the story. According to The Canadian Press, Google has confirmed the p... |
| Jul 7, 2010 | Canada Needs To Outlaw Breaking Digital Locks Or Popcorn Vendors Will Starve | You may recall a few years back the ridiculous claim (never retracted) from NBC Universal’s General Counsel Rick Cotton that if the unauthorized sharing of movies wasn’t stopped, it might mean tragedy for the American corn farmer: |
| Feb 19, 2010 | Winning Essay In High School Ethics Writing Competition Argues That File Sharing Isn't Wrong | Well, this is interesting. Despite the various biased, one-sided, “education programs” designed by the entertainment industry for schools, it seems that plenty of students are smart enough to make ethical decisions in a more nuanced and und... |
| From Kim Kardashian to Rihanna, meet the only 8 Hollywood A-listers who are billionaires | From left to right: Kanye West, Kim Kardashian, and Rihanna. Ronald Martinez/Kevin Mazur/Getty Images
Eight Hollywood celebrities were named in Forbes' World's Billionaires List this year.
The group of eight celebrities is collectively wort... |
| There is Nothing Spooky about Canadian Food SMEs’ Export Success | The honorable Ed Fast, Minister of International Trade, marked Halloween with a visit to Winnipeg-based OMG’s Candy Inc. OMG’s Candy was launch last year by Chris Emery and Larry Finnson who operate a 12,000-square-foot plant in St. James r... |