Snapchat redesign adds colorful text, while all users can mute specific chats
Snapchat’s Stories format, as well as several other features like augmented reality masks, have been widely imitated. But this time Snapchat could be the one doing the imitating. Snapchat recently confirmed that, for users already using the big redesign in the U.K., Australia, and Canada, new type designs are beginning to roll out. The update […]
New Toronto research hub to focus on developmental disabilities and mental illness
Statistics suggest mental illness more prevalent among those with neurodevelopmental disabilities One of Canada’s most high-profile mental health treatment centres says it’s opening a new research hub that will focus on the needs of people with both developmental disabilities and psychiatric conditions. The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health says the new hub is the […]
Huge Mayan city with pyramids found hidden under jungle
High-tech mapping suggests 10 million people may have lived within the Maya Lowlands Researchers using a high-tech aerial mapping technique have found tens of thousands of previously undetected Mayan houses, buildings, defence works and pyramids in the dense jungle of Guatemala’s Peten region, suggesting that millions more people lived there than previously thought. The discoveries, […]
This Explains Why Alkermes Plc Is Falling Today
What happened Shares of Alkermes (NASDAQ: ALKS), a commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on diseases of the central nervous system, fell 11% as of 3:56 p.m. EST on Monday. However, the company didn’t release any news that would help to explain it. Instead, it’s likely related to a similar decline in Nektar Therapeutics (NASDAQ: NKTR). So […]
Here’s Why Wells Fargo Plunged Today
What happened Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC) was the recipient of an unprecedented and harsh penalty from the Federal Reserve in response to “widespread consumer abuses.” They include not only the bank’s infamous fake-accounts scandal, in which about 3.5 million accounts were fraudulently opened by thousands of employees, but also several other scandals that have been […]
Disappearing deposits: What happens when banks lose your money
They thought there was no safer place to put their money — but when tens of thousands of dollars in deposits disappeared, customers of two big banks say they were left to fix the problem themselves. TD Canada Trust lost $17,000 of Jesse Hardy’s money for almost a year. In June 2016, he deposited stock […]
From laundry rooms to living rooms: millennials find creative solutions to rental woes
High rents and low vacancy rates force some millennials into cramped, unusual living arrangements When Todd Russell and his ex-girlfriend broke up three months ago, they thought that — like most couples in their situation — they’d go their separate ways. But when they started looking around for rental options, they realized it just wasn’t […]