The van is a Volkswagen T4, sold in North America as the Eurovan, and the pop-top roof marks it as the Winnebago camper conversion that was the official US version during that era. The long-nose front end points to a 1997 model year, when VW stretched the body to fit the larger VR6 engine. Sasha…
Unlike South African apartheid which backed supremacy and exploitation, Israeli apartheid condones ethnic cleansing, even mass atrocities – as evidenced by the obliteration of Gaza and anti-Palestinian violence in the West Bank. On November 10, the Israeli parliament passed the first reading of a bill to impose the death penalty on Palestinian prisoners convicted of killing Israeli…
A few years ago, Montréal-based construction technology startup Billdr pivoted after facing what co-founder and CEO Bertrand Nembot described as a “near-death experience.” “We didn’t get the business model right the first time with the marketplace,” Nembot told BetaKit in an interview last week. “We decided we’re going to continue, and we’re going to find…
A 14-year-old girl from Louisiana reportedly faces charges after allegedly murdering her newborn. Authorities have not disclosed the young girl’s name. RELATED: 17-Year-Old Georgia Teen Charged After Allegedly Giving Birth And Attempting To Bury Newborn Son In Backyard Authorities Investigate 14-Year-Old In Newborn’s Death On Friday, Nov. 21, the Livingston Parish Sheriff’s Office received a…
NASA‘s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will downlink about 1.4 terabytes of data — on par with an entire gaming system hard drive — every single day. When Kristen McQuinn thinks about that deluge and how to get it in the hands of researchers, she likens it to another technological evolution. “Back in the day,…
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Every cat parent knows this familiar scene: you splurge on the perfect toy, only to watch your feline friend climb inside the packaging instead. There is something about a simple cardboard box that cats find almost magnetic. And according to a growing body of research, this behavior is not…
Steve Bannon congratulates Jim Hoft and The Gateway Pundit for our big Supreme Court Win this week. After years of litigation in which the Gateway Pundit founder and publisher Jim Hoft was the lead Plaintiff, Missouri v. Biden, the case experts said was “the most important free speech case in recent history,” has settled between…
The aftermath of the Honduran presidential election has been marked with unease, anxious crowds, contested tallies, and a sense that unseen hands have been quietly rearranging the country’s political destiny. Among those shadows moves Brad Parscale, Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, a figure whose career has lurched from spectacle to scandal in the United States and…
Canada’s three national AI institutes got a jolt of support this week for safety research and commercializing AI discoveries through the new federal AI strategy. The news: The long-awaited AI strategy, which dropped yesterday, included a lot of commitments for Montréal’s Mila, Edmonton’s Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii), and Toronto’s Vector Institute. The feds pledged…
The trains aren’t running on time Much of the country is dealing with severe cold and snow as I write this. In Virginia, we were hit with close to a foot or so of snow, but the sleet and freezing rain that fell for hours, and coated the top of it, really made things precarious….
