Police have cordoned off a large area if Hyde Park after a body was found following a “suspicious death” on Friday (August 12). A member of the public found the man with injuries shortly before 6am and the victim had died when officers arrived at the scene, the Metropolitan Police said. At least 30 officers were at the park, with …

Kadiza Sultana, one of three schoolgirls who left their homes in Bethnal Green in February 2015 to join the so-called Islamic State (IS) is believed to have been killed by an airstrike in Raqqa. Attorney Tasnime Akunjee said her family learned of her death in Raqqa, Syria, a few weeks ago. She was believed to have been killed by a …

Waze can already help you beat traffic, find the fastest route and even avoid the police. Now the Google-owned company is launching a new feature to help predict traffic and road closures caused by big events. Through the Global Event Partner Program, Waze is inviting applications from marathon organizers, stadium operators, or anyone associated with events that typically cause disruption …

Technology is now helping people who have been paralysed for years, and the results are amazing. Eight people with spinal cord injuries have regained some feeling in their legs after training with brain-controlled robotics, in a result nobody, not even the lead neuroscientist, expected. Biomedical engineers and neuroscientists from Brazil and the US designed brain-machine interface training using the patients’ …

An ancient group of sharks living approximately 300 million years ago were cannibalistic and would even devour their own young, according to fossil evidence collected as part of research detailed in Thursday’s edition of Palaeontology. The discovery was made by Aodhán Ó Gogáin, a PhD candidate at Trinity College Dublin’s School of Natural Sciences, who found baby shark teeth in …

Metrolinx, the TTC and the Greater Toronto Airports Authority were all made aware of a threat prior to a terrorism suspect being killed in a police takedown in Strathroy on Wednesday. The RCMP revealed several details of the investigation during their news conference this afternoon. Driver was someone police knew about. He was living at his sisters house with an …

Environment Canada is looking into a possibility a land spout tornado touched down near Delaware Thursday afternoon. Environment Canada Severe Weather Meteorologist Ria Alsen says a damage survey team from Western University was sent to follow up on reports of a possible tornado in Delaware. They were able to confirm that a weak Fujita Scale zero land spout tornado did …

Snapchat is under fire, once again, for one of their new lenses, which users are calling racist. Twitter has dubbed Snapchat’s latest lens “yellowface” because it draws offensive stereotypical Asian features, like slits for eyes, over people’s faces. The filter that turned selfies into “yellowface” Asian caricatures was “anime-inspired,” according to Snapchat. The Venice, Calif., company said the filter, also …

Recent studies of ancient DNA found that the first humans who got into America might not have gone through the ice-free corridor after all, which was previously the most believable viewpoint. In the paper, which was published Wednesday in the journal Nature, Mikkel W. Pedersen from the Natural History Museum of Denmark and his colleagues studied ancient DNA as well …

Just a couple of weeks ahead of its release, Eidos Montreal has announced the Deus Ex: Mankind Divided system requirements, as well as the start time of preloading on Steam. The minimum specs aren’t particularly high, which isn’t surprising considering the game is also on consoles. You’ll only need an i3-2100 (or equivalent AMD processor), 8 GB of RAM, and …

It may be a week late in getting here, but the new BlackBerry DTEK50 should hit the Canadian smartphone scene on August 15, according to the BlackBerry online store. The DTEK50 is quite plain looking, and bears a close resemblance to Alcatel’s Idol 4. This shows the design sacrifices BlackBerry has had to make, to the point of sharing designs …