What they are saying is that all theatres were shut down; then they gave permission for 600 theatres (probably in the 'safest' areas) to open, but a few days later slammed those 600 shut and back to all theatres are shut down. China is showing us what happens when you ease up on the quarantine too soon (which is depressing for the rest of us, knowing that we really could be 3, 4 or more months under this new reality).

Summary makes a mistake: Apple News Plus launched in both the U.S. and Canada today. That's because most of this 'new' product is just a re-branding of Texture, the magazine app that's been running for years, and bought by Apple last year. Texture is/was $14.99CA, and Apple News Plus will be $12.99CA, while including more content (like the Toronto Star and the L.A. Times). As a magazine fan all my life I love Texture. I'm reading about a dozen magazines regularly, and there's no way I would have purchased 12 print subscriptions. Plus you can jump into any article from the over 300 magazines in the collection, so for me it's well worth the money.

I've followed a lot of air accident investigations, and there are, unfortunately, dozens of instances where the sound of "Pull up, terrain" is the last thing on the CVR. And in the minutes before that, a cockpit crew wondering why that silly alarm was going off. You make me wonder though, is it the kind of alarm that goes off so often for erroneous reasons that pilots discount it?

I was building and deploying interactive TV apps in Canada in 2001. iTV is nascent like nuclear fusion is nascent.

It wasn't a separate video site -- it hosted all its videos on YouTube. Most recording artists would have a VEVO channel, but they were also just part of the normal YouTube search results. What Vevo did beyond that was have branded mobile apps that were gateways to *only* their content on YouTube. For some reason only known to them they thought this would let them charge a premium to advertisers in their apps. But as long as their videos were also available as part of the broader YouTube, there was really no reason to bother with their apps. Vevo has nothing to do with Vimeo, DailyMotion or any other video hosting site. It was strictly a branding exercise.

Sagan said "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." No one knows who first said the "absence of evidence" line, but it's sure not something Sagan would have said.

Toronto didn't offer any incentives or tax breaks. That's why the thinking is that Toronto is the favourite, unless one of the American cities ponies up enough to overcome the advantages that Toronto naturally has, e.g., it's not in Trumplandia.