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I've been very fortunate as a documentary and adventure series filmmaker, having the opportunity to travel all over Canada and the world doing what I love. But my latest project sent me on a mission to a lunar landscape in Canada's Far North — one of the most difficult places I've ever had to reach. For the CBC Short Doc My New Moon Suit, we travelled to Devon Island, nestled in Canada's Arctic, to run our very own test of a new spacesuit. It's here, on the world's largest uninhabited island, that new-concept spacesuits…

Y Combinator is putting hard tech in the spotlight. On Wednesday, the accelerator released an updated list of ideas it would like to see in applications — with categories like space, manufacturing and defense featured prominently. YC has backed plenty of hard tech startups before. Launch companies Stoke Space and Relativity Space and satellite broadband provider Astranis are among its alumnus. The accelerator’s biggest exit is still General Motors’ $1 billion purchase of autonomous vehicle company Cruise Automation…

From the early days of broadband, advocates for consumers and web-based companies worried that the cable and phone companies selling broadband internet connections had the power and incentive to favor their own or their partners’ websites and services over those of their rivals. That’s why there has been such a strong demand for rules that would prevent broadband providers from picking winners and losers online, preserving the freedom and innovation that have been the lifeblood of the internet.Yet that demand has been…

Setting A Dockerized Python Environment — The Hard WayThis post will review different methods to run a dockerized Python environment from the command line (CLI). Am I recommending you run your Python environment from the CLI? Absolutely not!There are better ways to set up a Python development environment, such as using VScode and the Dev Containers extension. We will use the “hard way” to set up a Python environment from the CLI for learning purposes. We will review different approaches to launching a container with the…

Carjackings and car thefts are up significantly compared with the number of incidents before the pandemic, prompting fear and calls for action in many American cities.Motor vehicle thefts increased by 29% in 2023 compared with the previous year, while carjackings slightly decreased by 5% in nearly 40 American cities, according to the Council on Criminal Justice’s most recent crime trends report. But between 2019 and 2023, both car thefts and carjackings increased dramatically, by 105% and 93%, respectively, according to…

 If you're building a list of the most important stocks in the market, Tesla Inc. has to be on it. Or does it? That's part of a growing debate on Wall Street, where shares of Elon Musk's electric-vehicle maker are tanking as the rest of the market rallies — and the company is warning that things may not get better for a while. An original member of the so-called Magnificent Seven tech stocks that have been driving the S&P 500 Index to new heights, traders are now wondering if Tesla's name belongs next to those other…

FromSoftware has said its “working hard” on an expansion for Elden Ring but still hasn’t given fans a release window. The Shadow Of Erdtree expansion for Elden Ring was first announced in February 2023 but since then, details have been scarce. In December, rumours that the expansion would be ready in time for The Game Awards were quickly shut down.  “It’ll be a little while yet, but progress is going well,” said ​​producer Yasuhiro Kitao before comparing the DLC to Bloodborne and confirming that it will feature “new…

WD If you need extra storage space that’s secure for your photos, videos, and other types of files, you should be looking at external hard drive deals. Best Buy’s deal of the day is an offer that you should definitely consider — the 14TB version of the WD Easystore for $260, following a $50 discount on its sticker price of $310. There’s only several hours left before the bargain ends though, and once it’s gone, we’re not sure when you’ll get another shot at it. If you’re interested, it’s highly recommended that you…

Last month during the Golden Globes the biggest story wasn’t who actually the Golden Globe winners, it was what happened outside when Brie Larson met Jennifer Lopez. It turns out Larson is a massive JLo fan, so when the two crossed paths at the awards, Larson kind of freaked out a little bit, and went viral in the process. Now the actress is speaking out about the experience, and it’s only becoming sweeter.Larson was recently a guest on Jimmy Kimmel Live!  and the host brought up the meeting, even showing the clip of…

Maybe the real psyop was letting us think she might not win.Accepting the pop vocal album prize for “Midnights” at Sunday’s 66th Grammy Awards, Taylor Swift thanked the Recording Academy, thanked her fans — then announced the upcoming release of an LP all but certain to take her to the 67th Grammy Awards.“It’s called ‘The Tortured Poets Department,’” she said with a knowing little laugh, and you had to marvel at the confidence required to base a project launch on the assumption that her name would be inside that…