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Video footage has surfaced from a Snoop Dogg and Wiz Khalifa’s concert in Camden, N.J., on Friday night (Aug. 5) that seems to show a railing collapsing. The incident caused dozens to fall in front of the stage. The collapse happened around 10 p.m. at BB&T Pavilion. A woman told WCAU the rappers had just gotten into a secondary stage …

Hospital funding in Ontario is much lower than hospital funding in the rest of Canada – $4.8 billion lower. There should be about 1,600 more staff at London hospitals according to the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions of CUPE. The council’s president Michael Hurley says local hospitals have shortfalls of 406 nurses and 1,200 hospital staff because of a $129-million …

Three pregnant women are now among 46 confirmed cases of Zika virus across the state, according to the Illinois Department of Public Health. Eight women in Illinois are listed in the Zika Virus Pregnancy Registry, but an IDPH statement says five of those cases have not been confirmed, and those women may have Zika virus or Dengue fever. This news …

Roberto Vazquez may have to change his business cards to: “Photographer by day, Pokemon Master by night.” Vazquez of Toronto spent three and half weeks catching all the Pokemon. His endeavor was fortuitous in more ways than one: he managed to shed 11 kg (25 pounds) in the process. The Canadian now owns all 142 Pocket Monsters that are available …

Ransomware is responsible for disrupting more than half of UK companies in the past year with nearly 40 percent of businesses suffering attacks. Out of 540 polled CIOs, CISOs, and IT Directors from companies in the UK, US, Canada and Germany which have more than 5,000 employees – almost 40 per cent have been hit by ransomware in the last …

Apple is willing to pay up to $200k if you are able to identify vulnerabilities in its software in a new bug bounty program. The announcement was made at Black Hat security conference today. In a departure from most bug bounty programs, Apple is encouraging those who receive the rewards to donate them to charity, at which point the company …

The Hiroshima city government said Thursday representatives from 91 nations and the European Union are scheduled to attend its annual ceremony on Saturday to commemorate the U.S. atomic bombing in 1945, while peace activists held annual conferences. The annual ceremony took place in front of a monument at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, with some 300 participants attending, including atomic …

A working prototype of the Nissan BladeGlider has been unveiled in Rio de Janiero ahead of the Olympics later this week. Conceptually, the narrow-front Bladeglider borrows from Nissan ZEOD RC race car of 2013, employing the same close-spaced front wheels and minimal mass to a vehicle meant for practical everyday use rather than on-track technology demonstration. The Bladeglider uses its …

Chew on this: new study offers more evidence that vegetarians not only live better, but also longer. Scientists led by Mingyang Song at Massachusetts General Hospital analysed data from two major studies with more than 150,000 participants to determine whether people who consumed protein from red and processed meats had a significantly higher mortality rate than those who got their …

Chemists at the University of Toronto have developed a new battery that stores energy in a cathode derived from vitamins. The battery is similar to many commercially-available high-energy lithium-ion batteries with one important difference. It uses flavin from vitamin B2 as the cathode: the part that stores the electricity that is released when connected to a device.

Britney Spears has announced her highly anticipated ninth studio album will be titled Glory and is set to drop on August 26th. Unlike other people we know (*cough Frank Ocean cough*), Britney Spears has benevolently supplied us both a confirmed album title and a definite release date for her long-anticipated new album. The new album, titled Glory, is due to …