Women entrepreneurs, particularly women of colour, receive less funding than their male counterparts. Some Canadian female tech executives are trying to close that funding gap, with a mission to invest specifically in startups led by BIPOC women.Sisters Bunny Ghatrora, left, and Taran Ghatrora launched their company Blume — featuring clean skincare and menstrual products —…
Due to the worldwide pandemic, there haven’t been all that many sporting events as there used to be before it. However, TV…
TL;DR: Just because there are more tech-savvy people around, it doesn’t mean the number of social media fraud victims is declining. According to new data from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the number of users who reported being swindled through sites like Facebook and Twitter reached a record 95,000 last year, with total losses reaching…
Editor’s take: Atari has partnered with Republic Realm on the development and launch of giftable non-fungible tokens (GFTs) that essentially combine traditional NFTs with loot boxes. Are gamers going to go for it? We’ll find out soon enough. GFTs appear like wrapped gift boxes, but “unwrap” on a specific date to reveal a surprise. Each…
Or will Germany change Elon Musk?THIS IS A big week for Tesla’s “gigafactory” in Grünheide, near Berlin. According to the German press, the American electric-car maker will get the final green light from local authorities to start operations within days. In one way, it already has. On February 28th Tesla workers elected their first works…
Ten of the 13 surgeons at C.W. Wiebe Medical Centre and Boundary Trails Health Centre in the Winkler, Man., area are women — almost three times the national average.Ten of the 13 surgeons at C.W. Wiebe Medical Centre and Boundary Trails Health Centre are women. From left, top row: Dr. Ashley Dyson (obstetrician-gynecologist), Dr. Ladonna…
There’s a new Fitbit recall to know: Fitbit has just voluntarily recalled more than one million of its Ionic smartwatches after reports that overheating lithium-ion batteries had resulted in burn injuries. “The battery in the Ionic smartwatch can overheat, posing a burn hazard,” Fitbit said in a statement on their site on Wednesday. “The health and safety of Fitbit…
Poppies International Inc. of Battleboro, NC, is recalling certain cream puffs that were made during Dec. 7 through Dec. 10, 2021, because of possible small metal fragments. The issue was discovered during production. There is concern that consumers may still have unused portions of the recalled cream puffs in their homes because the best-before dates…
Why it matters: Malwarebytes’ Threat Intelligence Team has issued a new warning to users regarding a recently identified threat from the North Korean hacking group Lazarus. The attack uses fake documents with embedded macros designed to resemble Lockheed Martin employment information. Once the macro is executed, the exploit uses Windows Update and GitHub to deliver…
Canada’s top central banker says raising the Bank of Canada’s benchmark interest rate may be costly for households, but waiting longer to act would be more costly for the country.Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem gave a speech to the CFA Society Toronto on Thursday. He remains concerned about high inflation. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press)Canada’s…