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1 / 10 Donald Trump Donald Trump may have been banned from many social media platforms but that hasn’t stopped him from trending in the Canadian news cycle. From his refusal to accept the U.S. election results, alleged incitement of the Jan. 6 Capitol riots and subsequent impeachment on those grounds to the launch of his own social media company, former U.S. President Trump has dominated Canadian news this year. He recently made headlines again when he said he received his COVID-19 booster… Source link

Phillip Adams, a former NFL cornerback who was accused of shooting six people to death before killing himself in April, had “unusually severe” chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a degenerative brain disease associated with head trauma and concussions.  The results of Adams’ brain examination were announced Tuesday by Dr. Anne McKee, a neuropathologist who serves as director of Boston University’s CTE Center. She compared Adams’ brain to the brain of Aaron Hernandez, the former New… Source link

Google Photos is introducing new and improved features, that will allow users to personalise the home screen and adds some updates to its existing features. As we near the end of 2021, the company has announced a new People & Pets widget which will allow users to personalise their homescreens with the memories of loved ones. Google has also updated its Cinematic Photos feature which was introduced last year by the company. Google Photos already has a Memories Widget feature, available on… Source link

This article first appeared in the Morning Brief. Get the Morning Brief sent directly to your inbox every Monday to Friday by 6:30 a.m. ET. Subscribe Thursday, December 10, 2021 ‘Learning to live’ with the virus has become a credo Last Sunday, after nearly suffering a heart-attack watching Pittsburgh play Baltimore in a classic Steelers-Ravens thriller, I attended my first concert of the pandemic era: Genesis, which played to a packed-to-the-rafters crowd at Madison Square Garden. Tomorrow… Source link

Google (GOOGL) released its annual “Year in Search” list on Wednesday, offering a glimpse into the top trending search terms that saw a spike in traffic from the year prior, both globally and broken down by country and categories. Last year, “coronavirus” predictably topped the trending search list globally and dominated much of the US list. This year, the top trending global searches were more sports-focused. The Australia vs India Men’s World Cup cricket match and India’s match against… Source link

Former US president Donald Trump gestures as he speaks, flanked by Texas Governor Greg Abbott, during a visit to the border wall near Pharr, Texas on June 30, 2021. (Photo by SERGIO FLORES/AFP via Getty Images) Is this the revenge of Four Seasons Landscaping? That was the worn-down venue in Philadelphia where Donald Trump’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, launched the doomed effort to block Joe Biden’s win in the 2020 presidential election. The Giuliani group meant to book the Four Seasons hotel,… Source link

As backlogs in the U.S. supply chain continue to threaten shipping and deliveries this holiday season, consumers’ purchasing habits and plans appear to be relatively unwavered. According to ChargeItSpot founder and CEO Doug Baldasare, the majority of shoppers the company surveyed are not changing their gift buying approach this year. “We’ve seen a gradual and steady return to brick-and-mortar shopping. As we’ve looked at the last 12 months, it’s really been a pretty steady upward trend,”… Source link

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg shows off his vision for the metaverse during Facebook’s Oculus Connect conference on October 28, 2021.Facebook/Handout via REUTERS The so-called metaverse could give us our own virtual echo chambers and tailored realities. Advertisers and third parties could inject someone’s virtual world with ads and overlays unique to them. Experts told Insider the result could be a fractured reality where we all exist in different worlds. In the metaverse of the future, two… Source link

Google is working on an app to help people with disabilities better communicate. (Bigstock) Google wants to make it easier for people with disabilities that affect their speech to communicate with those around them and they’re looking for some help. The company has developed an app that’s able to decipher the speech patterns of those with impairments. The app known as Project Relate can be used to transcribe spoken words to text in real time and it can speak the… Source link

Retail investor interest in Robinhood’s (HOOD) forthcoming crypto wallet remains high, a company executive said at the Yahoo Finance-Decrypt cryptocurrency event on Tuesday. The wait list for Robinhood’s crypto wallet stands at 1.6 million people, Robinhood Crypto COO Christine Brown revealed at “Crypto Goes Mainstream.“ Robinhood announced plans for the crypto wallet in September, promising users the ability to send and receive cryptocurrency at speed and low cost. The wallet will also… Source link