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Millie Bobby Brown, husband Jake Bongiovi announce they’ve adopted a child – National
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Millie Bobby Brown, husband Jake Bongiovi announce they’ve adopted a child – National

Descrease article font size Increase article font size Millie Bobby Brown and her husband Jake Bongiovi are now parents. The Stranger Things star, 21, and Bongiovi, 23, the son of Jon Bon Jovi, announced that they had adopted a daughter on Thursday.“This summer we welcomed our sweet baby girl through adoption,” the pair said in a joint Instagram statement.“We are beyond excited to embark on this beautiful next chapter.” Story continues below advertisement The Enola Holmes actor and Bongiovi first crossed paths on social media and were friends for a while before becoming a couple, she told Wired in 2022. Get breaking National news For news impacting Canada and around the world, s...
Four New Features Coming to YouTube Music
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Four New Features Coming to YouTube Music

This November marks 10 years since YouTube launched its own music service. While YouTube Music isn't as widely discussed as other streaming services like Apple Music and Spotify, it's a massively popular choice, with over 125 million subscribers—when you include the YouTube Premium users that get the service as part of their subscription, that is.To mark 10 years of YouTube Music, the company is adding four new features for both free and paid users. These aren't as monumental as you might expect for a 10-year anniversary update, but there are some interesting changes here to check out. Taste match playlistsYouTube doesn't share many details about this new feature, but the press release does say this: Taste match playlists are designed to introduce new music to groups of people with similar...
IIT Roorkee`s new tool to predict how floods spread disease in cities
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IIT Roorkee`s new tool to predict how floods spread disease in cities

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee have developed HyEco -- a first-of-its-kind integrated flood-water quality modelling platform which shows how potential disease-causing microbes can travel in floodwaters and where people are most at risk of getting affected.  This novel framework, which also predicts how urban flood waters will spread across a city, was tested during the 2023 Delhi floods. The results were alarming; over 60 per cent of flooded areas were in the high to very high danger zones, and harmful bacteria (E. coli) in the water were found to be hundreds of thousands of times above safe limits. Children, in particular, faced infection risks more than double the internationally accepted safety levels when playing in floodwaters. Floodwaters in many ...
Vaani Kapoor credits India’s mythology and culture for Mandala Murders success
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Vaani Kapoor credits India’s mythology and culture for Mandala Murders success

Bollywood actress Vaani Kapoor, who is receiving positive response to her work in the recently released streaming series Mandala Murders, has said that the more content is local, the more global it will become. The actress stressed upon how important it is for the stories to be rooted to make a global impact. Talking about the same, the actress said, “Seeing ‘Mandala Murders’ trend globally for three weeks straight has been incredibly surreal. I never imagined the kind of overwhelming response it would receive. I`m beyond grateful to every single person who has watched and supported the show. This streaming debut marks a deeply personal milestone for me, one that I will cherish forever”. She further mentioned, “Mandala Murders was made with immense heart, and to see it resonate so power...
The Pixel 10 Has an AI-Powered ‘Camera Coach’ That I Actually Liked
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The Pixel 10 Has an AI-Powered ‘Camera Coach’ That I Actually Liked

Google debuted a bunch of new camera features that add AI to your photos during its Made by Google event yesterday, including one that claims to let you zoom in by 100 times—but there's one other AI-powered addition that doesn’t actually add AI to your final photo. Called Camera Coach, it essentially tries to ensure your pictures look perfect before you click the shutter rather than trying to fix them up afterwards. As someone who’s still wary of AI-generated imagery, could this be the perfect blend of man and machine I’ve been waiting for?How Camera Coach works Credit: Michelle Ehrhardt Not everyone took a photography course in high school like...
CSIS told RCMP about suspected anti-government militia in Quebec: court documents
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CSIS told RCMP about suspected anti-government militia in Quebec: court documents

In early 2023, Canada’s spy agency tipped off the RCMP that several Quebec City area men had formed an allegedly anti-government militia whose members were conducting tactical military training with weapons and ammunition, newly-unsealed search warrants reveal. The Canadian Security Intelligence Service told the RCMP’s counter-terrorism squad about the group,  which called itself “Hide_n_Stalk,” first in a verbal briefing and then in several subsequent secret letters, according to the CSIS letters attached to RCMP search warrants.After getting the CSIS warning and investigative lead, the RCMP’s integrated national security unit then investigated, tracked and surveilled the four men and others alleged to belong to the group for months before finally arresting and charging four Quebec City s...
Lil Nas X hospitalized in Los Angeles for ‘possible overdose,’ say reports – National
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Lil Nas X hospitalized in Los Angeles for ‘possible overdose,’ say reports – National

Rapper Lil Nas X has reportedly been hospitalized in Los Angeles after suffering a possible overdose. In a video shared by TMZ, the Old Town Road rapper, 26, was seen in his underwear and cowboy boots, roaming along Ventura Boulevard in the Studio City neighbourhood around 4 a.m. local time on Thursday.Someone driving by Nas, born Montero Hill, recorded him, while he repeatedly pointed at the camera and at one point, placed an orange traffic cone on his head.“Hey, don’t be late to the party tonight,” Nas tells the person behind the camera. “You know where it’s at.”“Didn’t I tell you to put the phone down?” he asks the person. “Uh-oh, somebody’s going to have to pay for that!”Nas goes on to say that it’s going to be “a beautiful sunrise” and threatens to throw the person’s phone. St...
Study shows omega-3 fatty acids may protect women against Alzheimer’s Disease
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Study shows omega-3 fatty acids may protect women against Alzheimer’s Disease

Omega fatty acids could protect against Alzheimer’s disease in women, new research showed on Wednesday, August 20.  Scientists from the UK’s King’s College London and Queen Mary University London conducted an analysis of lipids -- fat molecules that perform many essential functions in the body -- in the blood. They found a noticeable loss of unsaturated fats, such as those that contain omega fatty acids, in the blood of women with Alzheimer’s disease compared to healthy women. They found no significant difference in the same lipid molecule composition in men with Alzheimer’s disease compared to healthy men, which suggests that those lipids have a different role in the disease according to sex. Fats perform important roles in maintaining a healthy brain, so this study could indicate why m...
Carney holds ‘productive’ call with Trump as U.S. trade war stretches on – National
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Carney holds ‘productive’ call with Trump as U.S. trade war stretches on – National

Descrease article font size Increase article font size Prime Minister Mark Carney and U.S. President Donald Trump spoke over the phone on Thursday as the effects from Trump’s trade war continue to mount. The two leaders had a “productive and wide-ranging conversation,” Carney’s office said in a statement.The call came just hours after Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand was in Washington, D.C., to meet with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio.“The leaders discussed current trade challenges, opportunities, and shared priorities in a new economic and security relationship between Canada and the U.S.,” the statement from the Prime Minister’s Office said. Get breaking National news For news impacting Canada and...
As U.S. trade war stretches on, Anand meets with Rubio in D.C. – National
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As U.S. trade war stretches on, Anand meets with Rubio in D.C. – National

Descrease article font size Increase article font size Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand is met U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio as U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war continues to strain bilateral relations between the two countries. Anand met Rubio in Washington, D.C., in their first official meeting in their respective roles on Thursday morning.The two officials have spoken on the phone before, but their first official meeting came as Trump continues to ramp up the pressure on Canada. 0:28 Canadian economy on ‘permanently lower path’ due to U.S. tariffs: Macklem Trump signed an execut...