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The latest For Honor video gives us a look at the Faction War, the metagame layer that connects the battles fought by players in the game. Once you choose a faction in-game, your progress will be logged, and every victory you enjoy or defeat you suffer will be counted towards a global faction. As you rack up victories, your faction …

Porn pirates are reportedly using a known YouTube backdoor to store infringing material on Google’s servers for free. Usually when a video is uploaded to YouTube, Google’s hosting services scan the film using Content-ID software and compares it to others to spot copyrighted material. This process also weeds out adult and abusive content that doesn’t fit with the website’s strict …

A man was killed by a 3.5-metre crocodile while wading across the notorious Cahills Crossing in the Northern Australian wilderness. The 47-year-old Gunbalanya local’s body was found on Thursday night at Cahills Crossing Cahill’s Crossing is not a footbridge, and at the time of the attack a recommendation on the NT Government’s road report website said only high-clearance four-wheel drive …

George and Amal Clooney are reportedly expecting twins – a boy and a girl, according to an interview with In Touch. Citing a source close to the lawyer, 38, the publication reports that the Hollywood power couple were “surprised” when they found out they were expecting twins, but news they were having one of each made them feel they’d hit …

Hundreds of thousands of red Skittles spilled across a Wisconsin highway Tuesday night, the local sheriff’s office said on its Facebook page. “There’s no little ‘S’ on them, but you can definitely smell, it’s a distinct Skittles smell,” Dodge County Sheriff Dale Schmidt told WISN. It turns out that the Skittles were being transported in the back of a flatbed …

Netflix reported better-than-expected results for the fourth quarter, led by strong subscriber growth outside the US. Netflix added 7.05 million new streaming customers in the fourth quarter and ended 2016 with 93.8 million subscribers worldwide. As a result, Netflix stock jumped more than 8% in after-hours trading today, following the earnings release. Netflix earned 15 cents a share, up 50% …

Summer Zervos, a former contestant on Donald Trump‘s The Apprentice, announced on Tuesday that she is suing him for defamation – just four days before his inauguration as President. Summer Zervos is represented by lawyer Gloria Allred, who spoke alongside her during a press conference in Los Angeles on Tuesday. Zervos, a former contestant on the television program The Apprentice, …

Don’t worry, Josh Donaldson will be making another cameo on the new season of ‘Vikings’. With his warrior-like hairdo and passion for history and “Vikings,” Toronto Blue Jays third baseman Josh Donaldson was a natural fit to appear on the History series. But the two-time All-Star says his guest spot on this Wednesday’s episode is not necessarily the start of …

Microsoft is following its acquisition of Montreal-based Maluuba with additional investment in the city that’s become quite the artificial intelligence hotbed. Microsoft announced in Davos on Wednesday that it will be growing its research and design office there (which is what Maluuba will be, post-acquisition) to double the size over the course of the next two years. Microsoft will provide …

A new Canadian research suggests that 33 per cent of people diagnosed with asthma do not actually have the respiratory condition. The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, concludes that some adults diagnosed by their doctors as having asthma should be reassessed. “It’s impossible to say how many of these patients were originally misdiagnosed with asthma, …

YouTube has been testing a new conversation feature which allows users to share videos and have conversations with their friends and family directly within the video network’s application. Canada is the first country to roll out this new YouTube sharing feature. Why Canada? Well, it turns out that Canadians are world leaders when it comes to sharing. On our mobile …