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ASUS ZenFone 3 Laser, Deluxe now available in Canada

ASUS ZenFone 3 Laser, Deluxe now available in Canada

The Asus Zenfone 3 was announced all the way back on May 30th, 2016 and Canadians has been waiting for a specific release date announcement. While we still don’t have a release date, we do have information related to pre-orders. Starting today, Canada Computers has opened up pre-orders for the Asus Zenfone 3 to Canadian consumers.

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Earth is losing oxygen, says new research

Earth is losing oxygen, says new research

Atmospheric oxygen levels have declined over the past one million years, although not nearly enough to trigger any major problems for life on Earth, a new research finds. The research shows global O2 levels dropped by about 0.7 per cent, over the course of 800,000 years. Writing in Science, the researchers say over that period, oxygen sinks — factors that …

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Fireball over Montréal: ‘American Meteor Society’

Fireball over Montréal: American Meteor Society

The American Meteor Society website received more than 200 reported sightings, and a camera at a Quebec national park captured a photo. The fireball was seen primarily from Québec but witnesses from Ontario, New Brunswick, New York, Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont and New Hampshire also reported the event.

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Yahoo Reveals Massive Breach of Data from 500 Million Accounts

Yahoo confirms 500 million accounts hacked

Yahoo on Thursday reported the largest data breach in history — affecting at least 500 million user accounts — months after first detecting signs of an intrusion that the company blamed on “state-sponsored” hackers. The internet giant is urging its users to change their passwords, especially if it’s been a few years since doing so.

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Fitness trackers may not help you lose weight, Says New Study

Fitness trackers may not help you lose weight, Says New Study

Wearable fitness trackers are not an effective tool for weight loss, according to a new study conducted by researchers from the University of Pittsburgh School of Education. The study looked at nearly 500 overweight individuals working to lose weight over the course of two years and found that those who used a wearable fitness tracker didn’t fare any better than …

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Research confirms mating of farmed, wild salmon in Newfoundland

Research confirms mating of farmed, wild salmon in Newfoundland

Scientists from the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) have confirmed that escaped farmed salmon from aquaculture centres are breeding with wild salmon and producing offspring in many rivers in Newfoundland. “We did find evidence of successful breeding between farmed and wild salmon,” said Department of Fisheries and Oceans scientist Ian Bradbury, presenting the unpublished study at an international aquaculture …

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Actress Carey Mulligan opens about grandmother’s fight with Dementia

Actress Carey Mulligan opens about grandmother's fight with Dementia

Carey Mulligan has opened up about the toll that her grandmother’s dementia has taken on her family. The 31-year-old was appointed Global Dementia Friends Ambassador in August (16) by officials at the Alzheimer’s Society, and she opened up about her grandmother Margaret, affectionately known as Nans, who was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s around 16 years ago. The mother-of-one revealed Nans was …

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Researchers say ‘Marsquakes’ are another clue to life on Mars

Researchers say 'Marsquakes' are another clue to life on Mars

Rocks found in the Outer Hebrides might suggest that there’s life on Mars. The islands of Barra and Uist in the Outer Hebrides undergo earthquakes similar to “Marsquakes” on the red planet, and create hydrogen in the Earth’s crust. If such earthquakes are producing hydrogen on Earth, there is reason to believe Marsquakes do the same on Mars.

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PEI Schools Evacuated Over Potential Threat: RCMP

PEI Schools Evacuated Over Potential Threat: RCMP

All Prince Edward Island schools were evacuated Wednesday due to a bomb threat received through a fax machine to the RCMP. According to Sgt. Kevin Bailey, the threat rolled off a machine for the Mounties in Ottawa Wednesday morning and was forwarded to their PEI counterparts. “This fax indicated that a bomb had been placed in a number of schools …

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Reef Fish See Colors Humans Can Only Dream Of, says new research

Reef Fish See Colors Humans Can Only Dream Of, says new research

Scientists at The University of Queensland have established that reef fish see colours that humans cannot. A team from Professor Justin Marshall’s Sensory Neurobiology Lab at the Queensland Brain Institute ran a series of behavioral experiments with trigger fish, in a bid to decode how they see the world. Professor Marshall said previous studies had looked into how goldfish saw …

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