The ongoing economic downturn in Canada has started to affect tech users here in numerous ways.(MobileSyrup)
As the dollar drops, prices of mobile devices have risen, and most recently, the price for a ’99 cent’ app on the iOS App Store has hit $1.39. Since customers are already so averse to paying for apps in the first place, Apple chooses to give developers a way to charge for applications based on the buyer’s local currency.
In Apple’s Developer Portal today, the company introduced a new pricing tier for apps in Canada and New Zealand, which is also going through an economic downturn, resulting in a low exchange rate. The new tier will let developers price apps as low as $0.99 in Canada and New Zealand. This allows app makers to presumably sell more copies of their apps in those countries, even if they make less money with each sale.
The prices changes go into effect automatically today, and some $0.99 apps can already be found in the Canadian App Store. These apps are displayed alongside the $1.19 apps from the last pricing adjustment last year, and the $1.39 pricing tier that represents parity with a USD $0.99 app.
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A car that's been stuck in the past can now go forward into the future, thanks to a government initiative that's allowing new models to be made for the first time in 35 years, KPRC reports.(Newser)
DeLoreans—the vehicle made famous in the Back to the Future movie franchise—are heading back into production in Humble, Texas, and it will be the first time the iconic car will be manufactured on American soil.
"It's fantastic. It is a game-changer for us," DeLorean CEO Stephen Wynne tells KPRC. Wynne notes that he's got enough parts to put together about 300 cars, and although he anticipates initial output to be just one car a month, he's hoping to jack that to one a week.
The first car is slated to be finished by early 2017. The anticipated price for one of these future throwbacks: $45,000 to $55,000 for a refurb, a vague "less than $100,000" for a new model.
Five people have died in a school shooting in the northern Saskatchewan community of La Loche, says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.(CBC Saskatchewan)
A suspect is in custody, he added.
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La Loche is a community of about 3,000. The school is for grades 7 to 12.
"I ran outside the school," Noel Desjarlais, a Grade 10 student at the school, told CBC News. "There was lots of screaming. There was about six, seven shots before I got outside. I believe there was more shots by the time I did get out."
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While using a cellular network out of Wi-Fi range, you’ll get to use the following in Canada and the U.S.—without roaming fees: up to 650 minutes of talk time 25,000 texts 200MB of data Unused data is rolled over to the next month |
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Call the engine room and get Scotty to the bridge: When the long-lost words of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry were found on 5.25-inch floppies—yes, floppy disks—it would take a Starfleet-level engineering effort to recover them.
Roddenberry, who died in 1991, apparently left behind a couple of shoebox-sized containers of those big floppy disks.
The problem? As any techie knows, floppy drives went out off fashion around the turn of the 21st century. Even if you bought a used 5.25-inch floppy drive off of Cyrano Jones on space station K7, you wouldn't be able to read the files on a modern computer, let alone plug in the drive.
Roddenberry's estate knew of two possible computers the author had used to write those final words. One had been sold off in a charity auction and the second wouldn't boot when plugged in.
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Many people will awaken today to the news of approximately 100 to 150 armed militia taking control of a closed Wildlife Park Headquarters, and not know the full back-story – so here it is: The short summary is: in an effort to draw attention to a ridiculous arrest of a father and son pair of Oregon Ranchers (“Dwight Lincoln Hammond, Jr., 73, and his son, Steven Dwight Hammond, 46,) who are scheduled to begin five year prison sentences (turning themselves in tomorrow January 4th 2016), three brothers from the Cliven Bundy family and approximately 100/150 (and growing) heavily armed militia (former U.S. service members) have taken control of Malheur Wildlife Refuge Headquarters in the wildlife reserve. They are prepared to stay there indefinitely. |
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Chart-topping R&B singer Natalie Cole, who followed her legendary father into the music business with hits like “This Will Be (An Everlasting Love)” and “Unforgettable,” died at age 65.
NATALIE COLDE DEAD AT 65, STARS SHARE FOND MEMORIES OF SINGER “Natalie Cole, sister beloved & of substance and sound. May her soul rest in peace,” tweeted the Rev. Jesse Jackson on New Year’s Day. |
