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Fuck it. Let’s build Jurassic Park. That’s what many have gleaned from recent comments by Max Hodak, one of the founders—alongside SpaceX and Tesla’s Elon Musk—of the neurotech company Neuralink. In a recent tweet, Hodak spoke on the present-day possibilities of a Jurassic Park-esque experience. “We could probably build jurassic park if we wanted to,” Hodak, who’s […]

Boston Dynamics’ dog-like robot has been deployed by the French army. As pointed out by The Verge, the quadruped robot known as “Spot” has been photographed alongside soldiers-in-training during military exercises. The images, which have surfaced on social media, were reportedly taken back in March during drills at the French army camp Saint-Cyr Coëtquidan. French outlet Ouest-France reports the Boston […]

Ontario has the largest stockpile of COVID-19 vaccines in Canada, with 1.4 million doses currently unused.  The numbers come from Canada’s Minister of Health Patty Hajdu, who tweeted stats on how many doses have been delivered and how many have been used as of April 5. Many Ontarians have expressed disappointment in this in conjunction with the province’s seemingly […]

NASA is investigating a string of “Marsquakes” that have been detected on the Red Planet, in the hopes that they could provide info about potential surface landslides or underground volcanos.  The tremors were detected by the space agency’s InSight lander, which touched down on our planetary neighbor back in November 2018. Insight’s purpose is to learn more about […]

Yahoo Answers is coming to an end. Nearly 16 years after its inception, the amusing and often frustrating Q&A platform will permanently shut down on May 4. Yahoo announced the move in a note to users this week, laying out a timeline for the upcoming changes. “While we could not have been prouder of what we accomplished […]

Personal information for more than 533 million Facebook users across 106 different countries was published over the weekend in what’s being described as a “low level hacking forum.” Of the more than 533 million reported users, more than 32 million of them are said to be based in the U.S. Information shared to the hacker-utilized site—as […]

Adria Kain has just shared her latest track, “Alone in Kenzo.” The Toronto-based soul musician has also dropped the accompanying music video, showing her and someone named “Z” dancing in the middle of a living room.  With “Kenzo” referring to the Kensington Market neighbourhood, Kain says the song emulates a late night in Toronto. With […]

Elon Musk’s SpaceX voyage to the stars has just added its last two passengers. According to WKBN 27, the two new passengers are community college educator Sian Proctor and former Air Force missileman Chris Sembroski. Proctor is from Tempe, Arizona, and Sembroski from Everett, Washington. They will also be accompanied by flight sponsor Jared Isaacman […]

Ali Gatie has dropped his EP The Idea of Her, out via Warner Records.  Alongside the EP, Gatie has also shared the music video for “Do You Believe” featuring Ty Dolla Sign and Marshmello.  “This song started as a ballad for me,” says Gatie. “I loved the idea of a song about running away and choosing […]

Amazon is requiring that its 75,000 delivery drivers sign a “biometric consent” form by this week. Anyone who refuses to sign will lose their job, Motherboard reports.  The form the company is requiring drivers to sign will allow Amazon to utilize AI-supported cameras inside their trucks that can detect a driver’s movements, sensing when they perform the smallest of […]