18 People Spent 40 Hours ‘Working’ in Virtual Reality and Hated It
A newly published first-of-its-kind study put 18 people in virtual reality for a full 40-hour work week...
Liberal Party’s Online Streaming Act Pushed Through House After Controversial Committee Process
The Liberal government’s online streaming bill—which some fear will serve as a handle for censorship—was...
Restaurants in Shanghai Offer ‘Secret Dining’ to Circumvent ‘Zero-COVID’ Policies
After undergoing some of the strictest lockdown measures ever seen in the world, China’s largest city...
United Nations Biodiversity Conference Moved to Canada Due to China’s COVID-19 Restrictions
A major United Nations (U.N.) conference on biodiversity has been moved outside of China after the meeting...
Canada to Invest Billions in Military Spending to Counter Russia, China Threat in Arctic
Canadian Defense Minister Anita Anand has said the federal government will invest $4.9 billion over the next six years — as part of a plan to spend over $40 billion in the next two decades...
Ontario’s Mississauga Now the 2nd Most Expensive City to Live in North America
Mississauga, Canada’s seventh-largest city, is now the most expensive in the country to live in and the second-most unaffordable large urban area in North America, only behind New York City, according to a recent study....
North Korea Loosens COVID Lockdowns, Citing Decline in ‘Mystery Fevers’
While COVID-19 ravaged most of the world, North Korea claimed that the virus had not been able to penetrate its closed border, and for over two years, reported zero locally transmitted cases within its country. ...
Clearing the Fog: 5 Things To Forgo for Better Focus – and 5 More To Embrace
Brain fog is a cloudy-headed feeling that makes it hard to focus or think clearly, and easy to forget. Brain fog itself is bad enough, but the ensuing frustration from reduced cognition may also lead...
Scientists Warn of a ‘Global Public Health Threat’ After Austrian Man Contracts ‘Super Gonorrhea’
Scientists are raising the alarm after an Austrian man in his fifties contracted a rare strain of gonorrhea after having an unprotected sexual encounter in Cambodia. His case, which was documented in the peer-reviewed medical...
Musk: Biden Dead Wrong on Chances of Recession
Elon Musk thinks Joe Biden is gravely mistaken in his analysis of the state of the U.S. and global economy, recent comments by the tech mogul reveal. During a June 21 appearance at the Qatar...
Chinese Police Investigated Over Attack on Female Diners in Tangshan
A vicious attack on a group of four women in the northern city of Tangshan has set China’s social media ablaze as netizens demand an in-depth investigation into the incident and for the parties involved...
Xi Tightens Grip Over Chinese Propaganda Ahead of Key Conclaves
Key positions in the Chinese Communist Party’s propaganda agencies underwent personnel reshuffles in recent weeks. Those reshuffles appear to be part of Xi Jinping’s effort to more firmly strengthen his control over the Party’s “pen”...