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Canadian Dollar Hits 4-week Low As Investors See End To Bank Of Canada’s Hiking Bias | The Globe and Mail

April 24, 2019April 24, 2019 mdbincbi

The Canadian dollar weakened to a nearly four-week low against its U.S. counterpart on Tuesday as the greenback climbed broadly and investors bet that the Bank of Canada would forgo language pointing to further interest rate hikes. Canada’s central bank is expected to hold its benchmark interest rate steady at 1.75 per cent on Wednesday and for the rest of this year, with calls for the next hike in early 2020 resting on a knife’s edge, a Reuters poll showed. Read full story here: Canadian Dollar Hits 4-week Low As…

Meet The Vancouver VFX Team That Brought Game Of Thrones’ Dragons To Life | Globalnews.ca

April 23, 2019April 23, 2019 mdbincbi

It’s the biggest show on television right now: a massive pop culture phenomenon with a $15 million budget per episode, and 31 million people tuning in to watch each installment in eighth and final season. And it turns out that one of Game of Thrones‘ most iconic features — its massive, fire-breathing dragons — are created in Vancouver. Read full story here: Meet The Vancouver VFX Team That Brought Game Of Thrones’ Dragons To Life | Globalnews.ca

‘Is That Even Legal?’: Companies May Be Sharing New Credit Or Debit Card Information Without You Knowing | CBC News

April 22, 2019April 22, 2019 mdbincbi

A Vancouver woman is sounding the alarm for millions of Canadians who have credit and debit cards, after information about her debit card was shared when it shouldn’t have been. Vanessa Acuña blames an “updating service” that some credit and debit card companies have that allows new account numbers and expiry dates to be shared with merchants customers have dealt with in the past. Read full story here: ‘Is That Even Legal?’: Companies May Be Sharing New Credit Or Debit Card Information Without You Knowing | CBC News

Meet The Gene-Edited Bacteria That Could Make Cannabis Plants Obsolete | Digital Trends

April 20, 2019April 20, 2019 mdbincbi

“Well, imagine if — imagine if it was possible to brew cannabis like you brew beer.” “That would be awesome. Someone should totally come up with that.” The above conversation, no doubt set to a background of contemplatively munched pizza and roots reggae, sounds like your typical 1:00am conversation among first year college students. It’s the kind of idea that sounds brilliant in the wee hours of the morning, but And it’s the kind of idea that, if remembered at all, sounds entirely impossible in the cold light of day.…

New Registrations For Electric Vehicles Doubled In US Since Last Year | TechCrunch

April 17, 2019April 17, 2019 mdbincbi

There were 208,000 new registrations for electric vehicles in the U.S. last year, more than double the number filed in 2017, IHS said Monday. That growth in EVs was heavily concentrated in California, as well as nine other states that have adopted the Zero Emission Vehicle program. California was the first to launch the ZEV program‚ a state regulation that requires automakers to sell electric cars and trucks there. Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island and Vermont are also ZEV states. Read full story here:New…

Canada Joins New German-France ‘Alliance’ That Doesn’t Include U.S. | CTV News

April 16, 2019April 16, 2019 mdbincbi

OTTAWA — Canada has formally joined a German-French coalition aimed at saving the international world order from destruction by various world dictators and autocrats — and U.S. President Donald Trump. The initiative is part of ongoing government efforts to shore up international co-operation at a time of waning American leadership and Trump’s outspoken disdain of institutions created after the Second World War, including the G7, the World Trade Organization and the United Nations. Read full story here: Canada Joins New German-France ‘Alliance’ That Doesn’t Include U.S. | CTV News

Law Enforcement Taps Google’s Sensorvault For Location Data, Report Says | CNET

April 14, 2019April 14, 2019 mdbincbi

Police have used information from the search giant’s Sensorvault database to aid in criminal cases across the country, according to a report Saturday by the New York Times. The database has detailed location records from hundreds of millions of phones around the world, the report said. It’s meant to collect information on the users of Google’s products so the company can better target them with ads, and see how effective those ads are. Read full story here: Law Enforcement Taps Google’s Sensorvault For Location Data, Report Says | CNET

Microsoft: Hackers Compromised Support Agent’s Credentials To Access Customer Email Accounts | TechCrunch

April 13, 2019April 13, 2019 mdbincbi

On the heels of a trove of 773 million emails, and tens of millions of passwords, from a variety of domains getting leaked in January, Microsoft has faced another breach affecting its web-based email services. Microsoft has confirmed to TechCrunch that a certain “limited” number of people who use web email services managed by Microsoft — which cover services like @msn.com and @hotmail.com — had their accounts compromised. Read full story here: Microsoft: Hackers Compromised Support Agent’s Credentials To Access Customer Email Accounts | TechCrunch

Thousands Of Amazon Workers Are Listening To What You Tell Alexa | BNN Bloomberg

April 11, 2019April 11, 2019 mdbincbi

Tens of millions of people use smart speakers and their voice software to play games, find music or trawl for trivia. Millions more are reluctant to invite the devices and their powerful microphones into their homes out of concern that someone might be listening. Read full story here: Thousands Of Amazon Workers Are Listening To What You Tell Alexa | BNN Bloomberg