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Apple and Affirm's PayBright are planning to launch a "buy now, pay later" programme for Apple device purchases in Canada, Bloomberg News reported, allowing people to pay for iPhone, Mac, and iPad over 12 to 24 months.In the United States, Australia, and Europe, buy now, pay later is marketed as an alternative to credit cards. The service has soared in popularity during the pandemic as consumers seek other options to make purchases that are easier on their wallets.On Monday, Square, the payments firm of Twitter co-founder…

IPL - or Indian Premier League - is one of the world’s most popular cricket tournaments. IPL 2018 began on April 7 and goes on till May 27. The teams participating in IPL 2018 are Chennai Super Kings, Delhi Daredevils, Kolkata Knight Riders, Kings XI Punjab, Mumbai Indians, Royal Challengers Bangalore, Rajasthan Royals, and Sun Risers Hyderabad. You can watch the tournament live on TV or catch it live online. If you don’t know where to watch IPL 2018 live online, we’ve got you covered.How to watch IPL 2018 online live in…

IPL 2019 - or the Indian Premier League - is well and truly underway, with all eight teams having played their opening games. IPL 2019 features the best cricket players from across the world who'll pit their skills against teams comprising stars and rookies alike. Like the previous year, in India, Star Sports and Hotstar will live telecast the IPL. Star had won global broadcasting rights for the tournament, but it's highly likely that it's been sub-licensed to other broadcasters in your region. Here's how to watch live…

Game of Thrones season 8 episode 1 is out now and available across the world. In India, the show is available on Hotstar, while the HBO original is available via the HBO Go app in the US. Game of Thrones is based on George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series of books, although the TV show has gone far ahead of the books at this point. While book fans are still waiting for Winds of Winter to be published, Game of Thrones season 8 is likely to feature most of the events of that will take place in the book titled A…

Apple said on Wednesday that it is expanding a program to supply repair parts, tools, and manuals for iPhones to independent repair shops in 32 countries in Europe as well as Canada.Apple began the program last year in the United States after years of lobbying against state-level "right to repair" bills that would have compelled it to provide parts to independent shops.Apple has long maintained a network of authorised service providers such as Best Buy to perform warranty work, but smaller shops had complained that the…

While NASA is sending a spacecraft to Jupiter's asteroids in an unprecedented mission to unravel the mystery of solar system's origin, a physicist has said that a meteorite, that crash-landed in a home in Canada this month, can offer similar results. Peter G. Brown, a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Western Ontario, said the small rock, which spun out of its orbit in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter and entered the Earth, has the potential to shed light on how the early solar system was…

OTTAWA—The Bank of Canada raised its policy rate by a full percentage point and said that further rate increases are necessary, marking one of the more dramatic moves to date by a developed-world central bank to drive down inflation.The Bank of Canada lifted its target for the overnight rate to 2.50% from 1.50%, the biggest onetime increase since 1998, when monetary officials tried to bolster the domestic currency amid financial crises in Asia and Russia. The last time the Bank of Canada’s policy rate was this high was in…

Most space launches result in uncontrolled rocket body re-entries, creating casualty risks for people on the ground, at sea and in aeroplanes, according to a study.While the risks have long been treated as negligible, the number of rocket bodies abandoned in orbit is growing. The rocket bodies from past launches also continue to re-enter the atmosphere due to gas drag.If the current policies of the space industry continue, there's about a 10 per cent chance over the next decade that a free-falling rocket will kill…

The Canadian government on Monday ordered a probe and demanded telecoms companies agree within 60 days to develop communication protocols to keep people better informed, after Rogers Communications Inc suffered an unprecedented outage. The glitch that lasted nearly 19 hours on Friday disrupting services from flights to banking and emergency 911 calls also cast doubt over Rogers' C$20 billion ($15.4 billion) takeover of Shaw Communications. Shares in both companies fell more than 4% on Monday as analysts voiced concerns…

by Chief Mi'sel Joe, Dorothy Vaandering, Rosemary Ricciardelli, Sulaimon Giwa and Sylvia Moore, The Conversation Two-eared listening is a critical element for Western advocates of restorative justice. Credit: Shutterstock…