The flying cars depicted in science fiction classics such as “Blade Runner” and “The Fifth Element” have long been seen as flights of fancy, but their arrival is closer than you think. At least a dozen companies are prototyping or testing flying cars or passenger drones, according to a Deloitte report from January. Air taxis…
A luxury beach resort in the southern Philippines has won plaudits on the internet for telling “self-proclaimed” social media influencers to stop asking for freebies and get a job. “We are receiving many messages regarding collaborations with influencers, Instagram influencers. We kindly would like to announce that White Banana is not interested to “collaborate” with…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Behind perfect games, Missouri-St. Louis’ Hannah Perryman and Tiffin’s Kimmy Reynolds shared Louisville/Slugger NFCA Division II National Pitcher of the Week recognition, while Augustana’s Jenelle Trautmann was named National Player of the Week. Earning her second national accolade of the season, Perryman was dynamite in the circle for the third-ranked Tritons,…
Red Lake, Ont. — I grew up in a small mining town in North-Western Ontario called Red Lake. It is quite literally in the middle of nowhere, with the closest city being Winnipeg, Man., which is a short five-and-half hour drive away. Growing up in Red Lake was great in many ways. I was able…
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Donald Trump, the US president, is to meet Moon Jae-in, the South Korean leader, next week in Washington in a renewed effort to revive stalled negotiations with North Korea over its nuclear weapons programme. The talks will be the first time the two leaders have met since the failed summit between Mr Trump and Kim Jong-un…
YELLOWKNIFE — A Canadian mining firm says it has unearthed the largest diamond ever found in North America. Dominion Diamond Mines says the 552-carat yellow diamond was found at its Diavik mine in the Northwest Territories in October. It says the stone “far surpasses” the previous record-holder, known as the Diavik Foxfire, which was found…
Update 2: Kotaku’s Jason Schreier, who broke the original story, has subsequently said that while a Diablo 4 tease featuring Blizzard co-founder Allen Adham does exist, his original report that it was going to drop at this year’s BlizzCon may have been off. “What’s in dispute here is the timing,” wrote Schreier. “We had originally reported that…
The mayors of two Icelandic towns have complained to Google that the tech giant’s satellite mapping images cast their homes in an eternal winter. Jon Pall Hreinsson, mayor of Bolungarvik, said that seeing his fishing village in the far reaches of Iceland’s Westfjords permanently covered in snow on Google Maps was “getting on his nerves”….
A top-ranking official with Canada’s central bank suggests high housing costs are holding the country’s labour market back. Bank of Canada senior deputy governor Carolyn A. Wilkins says investing in employees through training and education, for example, is one way to boost the labour market — but it isn’t the only approach needed. The availability…