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The federal government announced Friday that Sept. 11 will become a “national day of service” to inspire Canadians to show the kind of compassion and generosity that were in abundance following the attacks of 10 years ago.

Michael J. Fox showed up on The Late Show with David Letterman last night to officially announce the Nike Air Mag (aka the Back to the Future shoes). It’s Marty McFly himself, ladies and gentlemen! More »

If you’re frustrated with paying more than Americans for the same products, take heart: the Senate Finance Committee is looking into it.

Last weekend, my briefcase was stolen out of our vehicle while it was parked outside of a Bed & Breakfast. In the bag was my MacBook and all of my documents for work. Apparently while I was moving all of our stuff into the house, someone grabbed the bag and ran before I came back. More »

KHL president Alexander Medvedev vowed Thursday to rebuild Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, the hockey team whose players were killed in a plane crash, in time to play this season.

The year is almost over, but there is apparently plenty of time left for Nvidia to release its first quad-core mobile chips, based on ARM technology. President and CEO Jen-Hsun Huang said that, in order to get a leg up on its main competitor Qualcomm, the graphics company will release a quad-core mobile System-on-a-Chip, or SoC, before the end of the calendar year.

Code-named Kal-El, the successor to the prolific Tegra 2 chip, which powers over 70% of Android tablets and 50% of high-end smartphones, will not only be significantly faster, but also bring many of the ARM instruction sets such a NEON that are currently missing from the dual-core Tegra 2.

Huang said that by 2015 the mobile division at Nvidia will be worth more than its dedicated GPU divison, currently worth $4.5 billion. Their goal is to ship 1 billion mobile processors by then, too, an ambitious goal considering as of 2011 they have only produced around 100 million chips.

Earlier this year the GPU giant acquired mobile baseband company Icera, whose technology will be integrated into future Nvidia chips starting next year. The inclusion will allow for them to rely less on separate component manufacturers when developing mobile processors, ultimately lowering costs and increasing profits. This will be necessary to reach their goal of a $20 billion mobile chip business by 2015.

As for the quad-core chips, it’s unlikely we’ll see any of them in smartphones by the end of this year; initial yields will be low, with heat and power consumption being the major hurdle to overcome in the production process.

Source: Forbes Online
Via: Phandroid

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Most Canadians are living paycheque to paycheque and would be in financial difficulty if their pay was even one week late, a new survey suggests.

Today you have a vast choice of where you can pick up the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 4G. TELUS released this tablet yesterday for $649.99, but it was quickly put back to “coming soon” for some reason. In a press release this Android 3.1 tablet became available at a few other carriers: Bell, Rogers, Virgin Mobile and Sasktel. Pricing so far has this on Bell on a 3-year term for $449.95 and we’re told $599.95. The other carriers have not updated their sites yet with pricing.

Highlighted specs are that this has a 10.1-inch display with a 1280 x 800 resolution, 1GHz dual core processor, 3 megapixel rear-facing camera with a 2 megapixel front-facing camera, HSPA+ 21Mbps and Wi-Fi, weighs in at 565 grams and is only 8.6mm thin.

Update: Rogers has just gone live with their pricing. It’s as follows:
No term $679.99
1-year term $449.99
2-year term $399.99
3-year term $349.99

Source: Bell & Rogers
Via: CNW

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A Russian jet carrying the Kontinental Hockey League’s Lokomotiv Yaroslavl team crashed Wednesday, killing most of the team, including Canadian coach Brad McCrimmon and former Vancouver Canuck star Pavol Demitra

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According to CNET, the SFPD is now investigating their role in the search for the missing iPhone prototype that occurred in late July. They’re trying to figure out how, exactly, four of their officers got mixed up in all this. More »

Military spending has nearly doubled since 9/11 and national security spending is $92 billion higher, according to a report released Wednesday.

“Leaders are not what many people think–people with huge crowds following them. Leaders are people who go their own way without caring, or even looking to see whether anyone is following them. ‘Leadership qualities’ are not the qualities that enable people to attract followers, but those that enable them to do without them. The include, at the very least, courage, endurance, patience, humor, flexibility, resourcefulness, determination, a keen sense of reality, and the ability to keep a cool and clear head even when things are going badly. This is the opposite of the ‘charisma’ that we hear so much about.” ~ John Holt More »