Players suffer massive weekend outages as PoodleCorp claim responsibility for DDoS attack. A hacking group called PoodleCorp has claimed responsibility for the massive Pokemon Go outages over the weekend. The popular augmented reality game Pokémon Go has created a craze across the world, but on Saturday 16 July users took to social media to complain of being unable to access …

It seems there’s finally good news for the humpback whale. An unprecedented number of them have been spotted off the Pacific Northwest after fears the whale was reaching dangerously low numbers blamed on commercial hunting. Once nearly wiped out by commercial whaling, the humpbacks are making a comeback – and it’s not just two or three whales in any one …

Mistaken Point Ecological Reserve on the southeastern tip of Newfoundland’s Avalon Peninsula has made the list of World Heritage Sites designated by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Isabella Antonella-Gabrielle says the area located in Portugal Cove South on the Southern Avalon is rich with history dating back billions of years.

Good news for Canadian Pokemon fans as the official Pokemon GO Twitter account has tweeted that Pokemon GO is now available to download on iOS and Android in Canada. Pokémon GO is now available in Canada! Discover and capture Pokémon all around you. pic.twitter.com/uTXwIk85IZ — Pokémon GO (@PokemonGoApp) July 17, 2016 Just today, the official Pokemon GO Twitter uploaded a …

Ontario won’t entertain a request from Toronto city council to ban pedestrians from texting while crossing the street, instead dishing out a bit of common sense advice. Councillors voted Thursday to ask the Ontario’s Ministry of Transportation to consider banning “active use” of cellphones or handheld entertainment devices on “any travelled roadway”. Speaker Frances Nunziata, who proposed the amendment to …

Authorities say a Florida man fired shots at two late-night “Pokemon Go” players in a car outside his house but no one was injured. Flagler County deputies said that around 1:30 a.m., a man heard a loud noise outside his home, leading him to grab a handgun and walk outside. A car was parked in front of his home, the …

SOUTH Korean Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn was pelted with eggs and water bottles yesterday by residents angry at the siting of a US missile defence system in their town. Hwang Kyo-ahn was apologizing to the people of Seongju County for not seeking their input on the joint Seoul-Washington decision to install the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system, or THAAD, …

Homicide investigators have been called in after a suspicious death in Coquitlam. In a statement, Sergeant Jennifer Pound says investigators were called in after Coquitlam RCMP received reports of a 22-year-old woman in medical distress just after 5pm, on Eagleridge Drive near Guildford Way. The woman was later pronounced dead, and police suspected foul play.

A novel dwarf planet, 700 kilometers in size and has one of the largest orbits for a dwarf planet, has been discovered in the Kuiper Belt. Named 2015 RR245, roughly 435 miles across, was found using the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope on Maunakea, Hawaii, as part of the ongoing Outer Solar System Origins Survey (OSSOS) and has one of the largest orbits …

Canadian home sales for the second month in a row, dropping 0.9% from May to June, but average prices rose 11.2% year-on-year to $503,301, the latest data shows. The Canadian Real Estate Association, the industry group representing realtors across the country, on Friday said existing-home sales fell 0.9% from May. Sales in Canada’s most closely watched areas of Vancouver and …

Pokemon Go, the virtual scavenger hunt that is raising Vitamin D levels across the country, has so far lured players into armed robberies, led to the discovery of a dead body, and resulted in a host of injuries as gamers wipe out while glued to their smartphones in search of animated avatars hidden in real world locations. But now another …