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WHEN people stop working, they need a retirement income. Some are lucky enough to have an employer-provided pension linked to their salary. Everyone else faces a difficult choice. Some keep their pension pot in cash and watch as it is eroded by inflation. Others use savings products with high fees and risk being hurt by […]
It wasn’t until April of 2017 that nurse practitioners (NPs) in Ontario could prescribe the controlled substances used for medical assistance in dying (MAID). Since then, about a dozen have provided either patient assessments or the procedure itself.
Nadal hasn’t played any of the warm-up events in the run up to the first Grand Slam event of the season. After pulling out of the Abu Dhabi exhibition event and ATP Brisbane International with a knee injury, the world number one flew to Melbourne. The Spaniard trained twice yesterday and appeared to be pain […]
While the Canadian men’s Olympic team has utilized the 2017 Spengler Cup to audition four youngsters currently playing at the college level in the U.S., it has been a handful of veterans who have distinguished themselves through the first two games in Davos, Switzerland. The Spengler Cup is the last of a five-tournament tryout for […]
Amazon Web Services is making its cloud more appealing for companies that need to serve large amounts of video over the web. The company announced a set of AWS Media Services today that are designed to make it easier for businesses to encode and serve video across the internet, using the power of the cloud. […]
Enlarge / An AT&T Cell on Wings. (credit: AT&T) AT&T is using an LTE-equipped drone to reconnect some Puerto Ricans who lost wireless service after Hurricane Maria. This obviously isn’t a permanent fix for Puerto Rico, where 48 percent of cell sites are still out of service more than a month after the hurricane wrecked […]
In advance of a meeting today with French president Emmanuel Macron, Apple CEO Tim Cook made a surprise visit to a small company in the northwest of France that’s providing crucial optical recognition technology for the iPhone X. Eldim, based near the Normandy town of Caen, has been making various types of display technology for […]
Flickr/Uri Tours TransTeleCom, a state-owned Russian telecommunications company, is providing a new internet connection to North Korea, multiple news outlets reported this week. Internet analysts began noticing routing databases pick up TransTeleCom-provided connections for North Korea around 5:30 p.m. local time on Sunday, The Washington Post reported. Analysts say the new connection is handling around […]
Thomson Reuters (Reuters) – Two men have been arrested and charged by US prosecutors with scouting potential targets and providing material support to the Lebanese group Hezbollah, which has been designated a terrorist organization by the US government. Ali Kourani, 32, of New York City and Samer El Debek, 27, of Dearborn, Michigan, were arrested […]
The Syrian boy, whose traumatized face covered in blood and dust flashed across media screens and prompted global outrage, was filmed and exploited purely “for the sake of propaganda,” the boy’s father who now lives in liberated Aleppo told RT’s Ruptly. Omran Daqneesh was rescued from the rubble in the aftermath of a bombing in […]
