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CCP, the developer of Eve Online, is making a new action MMO. The company’s London-based team is behind the unannounced action MMO (the main developer of Eve Online is based in Reykjavik in Iceland). CCP mentioned the game as part of an announcement it is using Unreal Engine 4 for all of its currently unannounced […]

OTTAWA — The federal government is putting billions of dollars behind its bid for reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples in Canada as a whole, but also addressing the distinct and individual needs of First Nations, Inuit and Metis. Tuesday’s budget earmarks $4.7 billion over the next five years, the bulk of it aimed at supporting Indigenous […]

Up to 145 pilot whales have died in a mass stranding on a remote part of a small New Zealand island, authorities said on Monday. The stranding was discovered by a hiker late on Saturday on Stewart Island, 19 miles off the southern coast of the South Island. Half of the whales were already dead […]

TORONTO — When University of Toronto engineering professor Parham Aarabi first began researching face tracking technology, it never occurred to him that his resulting startup would later be snapped up by the world’s biggest cosmetics company, L’Oreal. In fact, Aarabi thought the initial application of what is now ModiFace’s lip and eye tracking capabilities would […]

Click:how to shop on xianyu Sandwiched between the major publisher E3 conferences and Sony last night was the PC Gaming Show. We wrote a few stories – there was a Shark RPG, Overkill’s The Walking Dead got a release date, two Yakuza games and Valkyria Chronicles 4 are coming to Steam, Oculus and Insomniac showed […]

John Kelly will leave his job as chief of staff at the end of the year, Donald Trump announced on Saturday, describing him as "a great guy". Mr Kelly, 68, took over from Reince Priebus in July 2017, and was brought in to try and instill some discipline in the White House. However, his departure […]

The US and Canada have called for China to release two Canadians detained in what is thought to be a set of tit-for-tat reprisals for the arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou.  It is the first time either country has directly demanded their release, with Justin Trudeau, Canada’s prime minister, having been criticized by the […]

Nearly one in 25 jobs in British Columbia is sitting unfilled, a striking sign of the growing labour shortage facing Canada as the economy heats up. New data from the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) shows that the country doesn’t have enough workers for all the jobs available. According to CFIB’s latest Help Wanted […]

When a Chinese spacecraft successfully signalled from the ‘dark’ side of the moon this week, the country’s triumphalist state mediia was quick to describe the achievement as “a huge stride” for the Chinese nation. The deliberate echo of Neil Armstrong – and the Cold War space race he won – also carried an implicit warning: […]

NEW YORK — Dick’s Sporting Goods, a major U.S. retailer, will immediately halt sales of assault-style rifles and high-capacity magazines at all of its stores and ban the sale of all guns to anyone under 21. The announcement Wednesday comes as students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, return to class for […]