Mysterious ‘pants’ arch baffles internet, geologists and Nunavut tourism office
‘My first reaction when I saw the photo was, ‘No way, this is definitely Photoshopped,’ says tourism worker Behold. A massive, pants-like rock formation, standing tall and glorious in a pool of salt water in Canada’s Arctic. The Nunavut community of Arctic Bay calls it “Qarlinngua” — pronounced “kar-ling-wah,” which means “like pants” in Inuktitut. […]
3 SRI Stocks to Consider Buying Now
Socially responsible investing (SRI) is based on the idea that investors can earn an attractive return while investing in companies that are doing good for the world. The strategy has taken off in recent years, as many SRI funds have enjoyed market-beating returns from hefty stakes in high-flying tech stocks and comparatively small stakes in […]
2020 Ford Explorer ST: A Sporty Explorer, Likely with Rear-Wheel Drive
What It Is: The sportiest variant of the next-generation version of the Ford Explorer. Don’t be surprised if the Explorer’s engineers opt to return to model’s pre-2011 longitudinal layout, sending power to the rear axle in two-wheel-drive form, while all-wheel drive will remain available throughout the model line. Regardless of the next-generation Explorer’s favored drive […]
Hyundai’s self-driving fuel cell cars complete a record highway trip
Future self-driving cars don’t have to be pure electric vehicles, and Hyundai is determined to prove it. The automaker just had a five-strong fleet of Level 4 autonomous hydrogen fuel cars drive themselves 118 miles from Seoul to the Winter Olympics’ home venue of Pyeongchang. That’s the longest any self-driving vehicle has traveled at highway […]
What would a million cigarettes cost? Health Canada wants to know
The federal government might want to buy a million of the low-nicotine variety The federal government is doing a little window-shopping for cigarettes — a million of them. Health Canada recently issued a tender notice asking suppliers what it would cost to purchase a million very low-nicotine cigarettes as part of its wider tobacco control […]
Cord-Cutting: Why Virtual Reality’s Future Must Be Wireless
By almost any measure, virtual reality has been a disappointment on a consumer level so far. Between Facebook’s (NASDAQ: FB) Oculus, HTC’s (NASDAQOTH: HTCKF) Vive, and Sony’s (NYSE: SNE) Playstation VR, there are fewer than 5 million headsets in the market worldwide, and many consumers still don’t know what virtual reality is. That could change […]
Amazon’s cloud is big enough to be the 5th-largest business software company in the world
Amazon’s cloud business has grown so quickly in the past decade that it’s now the fifth-largest business software provider in the world. Revenue at Amazon Web Services jumped 43 percent in 2017 to $17.5 billion, representing about one-tenth of Amazon’s total revenue, the company said this week. The only publicly-traded business software companies ahead of […]
Ottawa Hospital unveils plan for new Civic campus
Consultations raised questions about access, parking and greenspace The Ottawa Civic Hospital unveiled the architectural plans for its new campus on the northeast corner of the Central Experimental Farm on Wednesday night. Jason-Emery Groen, from architecture firm HDR, ran through the proposal which includes three main buildings mostly oriented toward Carling Avenue. The buildings with […]