#1 It is Required By Law Canadian Law requires that every vehicle that plies the Canadian roads must have an insurance cover, more specifically an auto insurance cover. It could be comprehensive, collision, or third party insurance cover. Any person who uses the road with their car without an insurance cover will face criminal charges. Worse still, repeated offenses could cause you to lose your driver’s license or do maximum jail term....
We all know web development is one of the most accessible, lucrative fields to break into if you’re itching for a career switch. But, if you’re like most, the thought of stringing lines of code together might sound a bit harrowing, especially if you failed to major in comp-sci back in college. But, even if you’re a complete newbie, it’s not too late to master the nuts and bolts of web development—you just need the right training....
Draper’s sales were part of a $319 million secondary deal in which TransferWise allowed insiders and early investors to cash in their stock. The deal awarded TransferWise a private valuation of $5 billion, up 43% since May 2019’s secondary sales. This ranks TransferWise as one of the UK’s top fintech startups, alongside the likes of Klarna and Revolut. TransferWise chief exec Kristo Käärmann noted secondary rounds like these allow new investors to come in, while simultaneously “rewarding investors and employees who’ve helped us succeed so far....
Sadly, it’s complicated to bring a beloved vintage motor into the 21st century with batteries and electric motors. Though EV conversion specialist Zero Labs is looking to change it with its “classic electric platform.” Put simply, it’s a complete and ready-to-go electric car chassis, which only needs a body to be placed on top and the controls connecting up. According to Zero Labs, this platform can be used to replace the drivetrain of classic muscle cars, two-door coupes, 4x4s, and pickup trucks....
You can learn all the steps it takes to build, maintain and grow a budding YouTube empire with the training found in The Complete YouTube Master Class. It’s on sale for just $11 (77 percent off the regular price) right now from TNW Deals. With the instruction from more than 60 lectures, this course will help even YouTube novices post and optimize quality content, grow their YouTube brand, then monetize their videos with the use of ads, sponsorships, crowdfunding and more....
The social media company said that in the last 10 days, “several separate blocking orders by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY).” The company acted on some temporarily and then restored the accounts on the basis of free speech. For context, earlier this month, Twitter restricted access to several high-profile accounts for folks in India. These included the Caravan magazine, pro-farmers organization Kisan Ekta Morcha, Shashi Shekhar Vempati, the chief executive of state-run radio agency Prasar Bharti, and the Communist Party of India’s (Marxist) Puducherry account....
Twitter started this experiment last May with a limited set of users on iOS. Now it’s expanding to all users on Android and iOS. The company said that this will cover potentially harmful or offensive replies — such as insults, strong language, or hateful remarks — in English for now. If the app’s algorithm detects such a reply, it’ll ask the user to reconsider sending it. You can delete the tweet or edit your response, but if you’re determined, you can still send the tweet with profanities....
Xie said Twitter will give four options to you to limit replies at different levels: Global: All folks can reply Group: People you follow and mention Panel: People you specifically mention in a tweet Statement: No replies This gives more granular control to you on replies to your tweet. Currently, Twitter only allows you to hide replies to certain tweets. Most intriguing here is the ‘Statement’ level of protection to a tweet....
Since the beginning of 2017, 119 stablecoin projects have been announced and are still yet to be rolled out to the public, there are currently 66 active stablecoins, according to research from blockchain analytcis firm Blockdata. Credit: Blockdata To date, 24 stablecoin projects have closed down and ceased operations. Around two-thirds (16) of these now defunct stablecoins were backed by gold reserves. It seems that question marks over the security of gold reserves have led to this series of stablecoin closures....
Speaking of which, a UK power distribution firm, that manages the energy grid across West England and Wales, has just launched a V2G trial and is giving away free smart chargers to Nissan EV drivers to test its platform, but there’s a catch. [Read: The future of electric motorbikes according to post-war inspired BMW concept art] In an announcement yesterday, Electric Nation, the consortium of organizations involved in the trial, said that it has opened applications to find EV owners that want to participate....
The United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons debated the question of banning autonomous weapons at its once-every-five-year review meeting in Geneva Dec. 13-17, 2021, but didn’t reach a consensus on a ban. Established in 1983, the convention has been updated regularly to restrict some of the world’s cruelest conventional weapons, including land mines, booby traps, and incendiary weapons. Autonomous weapon systems are robots with lethal weapons that can operate independently, selecting and attacking targets without a human weighing in on those decisions....
If you’re not a stickler for detail, chances are that you would mistake another company’s buds with AirPods. And the US Customs made the same mistake. Earlier this morning, the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) tweeted that it had seized 2,000 counterfeit Apple AirPods worth nearly $400,000 at John F. Kennedy International Airport. However, the twist in the tale was that these were legitimate buds from OnePlus. Weird thing is that in a picture tweeted by CBP, OnePlus’ branding is clearly visible, and no one seems to know about the company....
The initiative was launched in 2019 to build a consensus on AI ethics, but has made little impact since — partly because the US initially refused to join. White House officials feared the group would damage US tech firms, even though its recommendations aren’t legally binding and it can’t regulate private companies. Cédric O, France’s digital affairs minister, had warned the US that its decision would help China export its authoritarian approach to AI....
Let’s make this clear right off the top — we’re not going to ask you why you need to download videos off the web. Maybe it’s for a work project, maybe it’s to save something for posterity, maybe you just want to watch it back later when you aren’t connected to the web. We don’t ask. We don’t judge. However, there are many forces across the web who don’t turn the blind eye we do and actively don’t want you downloading — and in many cases, they don’t make the process easy....
Thing is, unless you spend a lot of time reading about Apple’s devices (like sad, little loser me), it can be confusing to work out what separates them all. But don’t worry, we’ve got you. We’ve already put together videos on the differences between the iPhone 11 Pro and the iPhone 11 Pro Max, as well as what’s new with the iPhone 11, but today we have another addition: what’s new with the iPhone 11 Pro and the iPhone 11 Pro Max?...
As many of us try to keep working while caring for our children, we might find that there are not enough printable coloring sheets and maths workbooks to fill this void. While screens are usually avoided, parents should cut themselves some slack as they try to juggle many hats. As such, multiplayer video games can help ease the situation providing some of the lost structure and social activity. At school, children have meticulously planned timetables of activities that challenge them both mentally, physically and creatively....
Yesterday, Nick Montfort, a computational poet and an award-winning author of interactive fiction, hosted a TNW Answers session. During the AMA, Montfort spoke about what computer-generated literature does better than humans, the future of computer-assisted journalism, and how computer-generated novels help enlarge cultural imagination and explore new possibilities of language. At first thought, computer-generated poetry may seem like a new and unexplored area of literature. So, what exactly is it?...
You play a hero of Freshtovia, a nation of peaceful beef-eaters, ruled by the red-headed Queen Wendy, the “Clapback Queen… first of her name, breaker of fast food chains, defender of all things fresh, never frozen.” Your opposition is the “Ice Jester,” which I’m assuming is a thinly-veiled jab at McDonald’s, and their forces of frozen meat products. Non-frozen this, non-frozen that — not to be overly critical, but Wendy’s really does have one string to its bow, doesn’t it?...
When The Economist called data the new oil, they were thinking of antitrust abuse. They might just have missed a more central concern: The unfettered consumption of data, like oil, may benefit businesses and even individuals in the short term, but in the long run it causes immense collective harm. “It’s pervasive. It’s invisible. Attribution is hard,” says investigative journalist Julia Angwin, comparing privacy violations to environmental pollution. “Even if you get cancer, you don’t know if it’s from that chemical plant down the road....
I recently had to deliver some bad news to a group of people. Delivering bad news is part of the job, and I don’t want to complain about it. I don’t take pleasure in it (on the contrary), but I also want to do it right. Kind of like a doctor who might need to do something that’ll hurt the patient in order to make them better. I think you can handle a crisis, or bad news, in a good or bad way, and I’m happy if I can make the best of a bad situation....
