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Electrified Cars Interest More Than Ever, Self-Driving Cars Scare, Study Says | Roadshow

January 13, 2020January 13, 2020 mdbincbi

We’re in a new decade, folks, and one thing seems certain: electrification is the name of the game. As automakers look to pump out more efficient sets of wheels, hybrids, plug-in hybrids and purely electric cars are the name of the game. Corresponding with the shift in automakers’ resources is a positive shift in consumer sentiment, too. Deloitte, an accounting and professional services firm, showed in a new study released last week that more Americans than ever are interested in electrified cars. Not only Americans, but people around the world…

Opinion – How To Track President Trump | The New York Times

December 27, 2019December 27, 2019 mdbincbi

If you own a mobile phone, its every move is logged and tracked by dozens of companies. No one is beyond the reach of this constant digital surveillance. Not even the president of the United States. The Times Privacy Project obtained a dataset with more than 50 billion location pings from the phones of more than 12 million people in this country. It was a random sample from 2016 and 2017, but it took only minutes — with assistance from publicly available information — for us to deanonymize location data…

U.S. Doubles Number Of 5-Year Bans On Travellers From Canada | CBC News

December 5, 2019December 5, 2019 mdbincbi

The number of travellers from Canada hit with a long-term ban when trying to enter the U.S. has almost doubled, new data shows. Between October 2018 and September 2019, U.S. border officers issued expedited removals — which “generally” result in a minimum five-year ban — to 616 travellers attempting to enter the U.S. by land from Canada. That’s an almost 100 per cent increase compared with 312 in the previous 12-month period. The statistics were provided by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). Read full story here: U.S. Doubles Number…

When Nova Scotia Decided To Go With Both Metric And Imperial | CBC News

November 24, 2019November 24, 2019 mdbincbi

By 1983, Canada had driven well down the road toward metric conversion, but one Maritime province tried to give its motorists the option of taking a slight detour. Nova Scotia Premier John Buchanan announced that November that his province would put up a small number of road signs near provincial border crossings that listed distances in both miles and kilometres. “What I’m doing is giving people the right that they should have in this country, the right that I believe they have under the law to have that option of either…

Google Has Access To Detailed Health Records On Tens Of Millions Of Americans | Ars Technica

November 12, 2019November 12, 2019 mdbincbi

Google quietly partnered last year with Ascension—the country’s second-largest health system—and has since gained access to detailed medical records on tens of millions of Americans, according to a November 11 report by The Wall Street Journal. The endeavor, code-named “Project Nightingale,” has enabled at least 150 Google employees to see patient health information, which includes diagnoses, laboratory test results, hospitalization records, and other data, according to internal documents and the newspaper’s sources. In all, the data amounts to complete medical records, WSJ notes, and contains patient names and birth dates.…

Nearly A Million Canadian Bank Records Sent To IRS | CBC News

November 12, 2019November 12, 2019 mdbincbi

The number of banking records the Canadian government is sharing with U.S. tax authorities under a controversial information-sharing deal has increased sharply, CBC News has learned. The Canada Revenue Agency sent 900,000 financial records belonging to Canadian residents to the Internal Revenue Service in September — nearly a third more than it sent the previous year. The records were for the 2018 tax year. It also has updated the number of records shared for the 2017 tax year to 700,000 from the 600,000 originally reported. Read full story here: Nearly A…

Bargain Prices For Oil And Gas Companies As They Hit The Discount Bin | CBC News

November 2, 2019November 2, 2019 mdbincbi

It was a rough week for the Canadian oilpatch, to say the least, with the Keystone pipeline shutting down after a leak, Encana deciding to become American, and a new drilling forecast for 2020 that is woeful at best. To cap things off, Pengrowth Energy announced its pending sale. The Calgary-based company was a homegrown success story and was once worth billions of dollars. Its share price was more than $13 in 2011. Read full story here: Bargain Prices For Oil And Gas Companies As They Hit The Discount Bin…

Data For A Whopping 26 Million Stolen Payment Cards Leaked In Hack Of Fraud Bazaar | Arstechnica

October 15, 2019October 15, 2019 mdbincbi

A thriving online bazaar selling stolen payment card data has been hacked in a heist that leaked the records for more than 26 million cards, KrebsOnSecurity reported on Tuesday. The 26 million figure isn’t significant only to the legitimate consumers and businesses who own the stolen cards or the financial institutions that issued them. Fortunately for the card owners, the database is now in the hands of affected financial institutions, who can invalidate and replace the cards. Read full story here: Data For A Whopping 26 Million Stolen Payment Cards…

Why It’s Only A Matter Of Time Before Oil Runs Out Of Gas And Electric Vehicles Power Ahead | MarketWatch

October 12, 2019October 12, 2019 mdbincbi

Alternative energy helps the planet and gives consumers choices. Roughly two-thirds of the electricity generated in the U.S. is currently sourced from fossil fuels. The positive news is that only half of that comes from coal; the other half comes from natural gas, which produces half as much CO2 as coal (though it has its own side effects — it leaks methane). Another 20% of U.S. energy comes from nuclear power, which produces zero carbon emissions. The remaining 17% comes from “green” sources, such as hydro (7%), wind (6.6%), and…