Month: August 2019

Petro-Canada Is Bringing Back Gas Nozzle Locking Clips | CTV News

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Gas nozzle locking clips are returning to Petro-Canada gas stations across the country after the company says they were removed nearly 20 years ago. (PumpTalk) Part of the reason for this is to prevent people from jamming coffee cups in the holders and spilling gasoline. According to a post on Petro Canada’s blog, the company is bringing the locking clips back to its gas stations across Canada, except in Quebec where they’re illegal. Read full story here: Petro-Canada Is Bringing Back Gas Nozzle Locking Clips | CTV News

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‘Tesla Killers’ Are Struggling To Live Up To Their Names | Teslarati

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Given the struggles faced by most new electric vehicle (EV) releases over the last few years, it may be time to put away the phrase ‘Tesla Killer’ in favor of a more realistic label like ‘Tesla Kind-of Competitor.’ With brands like Faraday Future and Fisker Inc. already come and (almost) gone in the same EV arena that Tesla continues to thrive in, each new entrant looks to be the next at-risk for being an ‘also-ran’ in the quest for success in the consumer market. Read full story here: ‘Tesla Killers’…

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Verizon Demands $880 From Rural Library For Just 0.44GB Of Roaming Data | Ars Technica

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A small library that lends out mobile hotspots is facing a tough budget decision because one of its borrowers accidentally ran up $880 in roaming fees, and Verizon refuses to waive or reduce the charges. The library has an “unlimited” data plan for the hotspots, but Verizon says it has to pay the $880 to cover less than half a gigabyte of data usage that happened across the border with Canada. Read full story here: Verizon Demands $880 From Rural Library For Just 0.44GB Of Roaming Data | Ars Technica

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The FBI Wants To Collect Social Media Data From Instagram, Facebook, And Twitter | Digital Trends

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The FBI is looking for a partner to collect data from your social media profiles, which could pit it against new privacy policies Facebook agreed to as part of its $5 billion settlement with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). A request for proposal posted on Aug. 8 reveals that the FBI wants to hire a third party contractor to help it scrape to social media data “to proactively identify and reactively monitor threats to the United States and its interests.” The document was first reported by the Wall Street Journal.…

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Canada’s New Nationwide EV Tax Credit Bumped Sales By 30%, Report Says | Roadshow

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The Canadian government is hoping to spark the EV revolution in the Great White North with a new EV tax credit. Electric cars are getting more popular in America’s neighbor-to-the-north, thanks to a new country-wide EV tax credit. Here at Roadshow, we talk a lot about EV sales in the US and how various state and federal tax incentives have affected them. Well, guess what, champ — Canada has EV tax incentives too, and we’ll be damned if theirs aren’t working like a dream. Read full story here: Canada’s New Nationwide…

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