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The Tri-Motot Tesla Model X is now $15,800 more expensive than last week

Tesla vehicle prices are soaring higher by the day, with a new increment added Monday night, according to driveteslacanada.

The new increase in pricing comes just a week after the company’s long-range vehicle variants received a rate hike. This time, however, the price increase applied to the full Tesla lineup.

People looking to order the Tesla Model X Tri-Motor All-Wheel Drive would now have to pay $15,800 more than they would have compared to last week, whereas the most affordable Model 3 Rear-Wheel Drive is now $1,390 more expensive.

Musk has been vocal about increasing inflation over the recent months, which when paired with an ongoing conflict that has the potential to escalate further makes the perfect recipe for increasing costs of commodities and metals.

Check out the recent price increase in Tesla’s catalogue of vehicles below:

Model S Dual Motor All-Wheel Drive: $121,990 to $128,990 (+$7,000)

Model S Tri-Motor All-Wheel Drive: $169,990 to $177,990 (+$8,000)

Model 3 Rear-Wheel Drive: $59,990 to $61,380 (+$1,390)

Model 3 Dual-Motor All-Wheel Drive Long Range: $68,990 to $71,990 (+$3,000)

Model 3 Dual Motor All-Wheel Drive Performance: $76,990 to $81,490 (+$4,500)

Model X Dual Motor All-Wheel Drive: $132,990 to $146,990 (+$14,000)

Model X Tri Motor All-Wheel Drive: $168,490 to $184,290 (+$15,800)

Model Y Dual Motor All-Wheel Drive Long Range: $78,990 to $82,990 (+$4,000)

Model Y Dual Motor All-Wheel Drive Performance: $85,290 to $89,290 (+$4,000)

In other Tesla and Musk-related news, the company recently recalled thousands of vehicles in U.S. over a Boombox feature, and Musk is feeling ballsy and wants to go up against Vladimir Putin in ‘single combat.’


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Canadian-led Ms. Marvel gets June Disney+ premiere, first trailer

Marvel Studios has confirmed that its Ms. Marvel series will premiere on Disney+ on June 8th.

The date was revealed alongside the first official trailer for the show:

Notably, the show stars newcomer Iman Vellani, who hails from Markham, Ontario and previously worked with the Toronto International Film Festival. The trailer also features the mega-popular song “Blinding Lights” from Toronto’s own The Weeknd.

In the series, Vellani plays the eponymous superhero, alter ego Kamala Khan, a Pakistani-American teenager in Jersey City. Kamala is a major fan of the Avengers, particularly Captain Marvel, as she balances high school, family commitments and burgeoning shape-shifting powers.

Notably, Vellani will reprise the role in next February’s The Marvels, co-starring alongside Captain Marvel‘s Brie Larson and WandaVision‘s Teyonah Parris.

Interestingly, Ms. Marvel premiering on June 8th means weekly new episodes will coincide with Obi-Wan Kenobi, which hits Disney+ on May 25th. Typically, Disney has avoided Marvel and Star Wars content overlapping like this; last year, Hawkeye debuted with two episodes so its finale would air one week before The Book of Boba Fett. Therefore, you might want to plan to get up a little earlier on Wednesdays starting June 8th if both Ms. Marvel and Obi-Wan Kenobi interest you.

Ms. Marvel is Marvel’s second Disney+ show for this year, following the Oscar Isaac-led Moon Knight, which kicks off on March 30th. She-Hulk, which stars Canada’s own Tatiana Maslany as the cousin of Mark Ruffalo’s Hulk, is expected to premiere sometime in mid-2022. Finally, the Captain Marvel spin-off Secret Invasion, starring Samuel L. Jackson and Ben Mendelsohn, will release sometime later this year.

It’s worth noting that Canadians are slowly dominating Marvel Studios productions. In addition to the aforementioned Vellani and Maslany, we have Vancouver’s Cobie Smulders (Maria Hill) in Secret Invasion, Mississauga’s Simu Liu (Shang-Chi) in future Marvel projects and Vancouver’s Ryan Reynolds in the third Deadpool (which is also set to be directed by frequent Reynolds collaborator Shawn Levy from Montreal).

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Blue Origin’s next space flight is scheduled for March 23rd

Saturday Night Live star Pete Davidson is among six people heading to space aboard Jeff Bezos’ upcoming Blue Origin flight on March 23rd, the sub-orbital spaceflight services company announced via its Twitter account.

Davidson would be the third celebrity to go to space aboard a Blue Origin flight, following Canadian actor William Shatner and ‘Good Morning America’ host Michael Strahan.

The SNL star is accompanied by Party America CEO Marty Allen, University of North Carolina professor Jim Kitchen, president of Commercial Space Technologies Dr. George Nield, Tricor International CEO Marc Hagle and his wife Sharon Hagle.

The flight is scheduled for 8:30am CT/9:30am ET on Wednesday, March 23rd. The entirety of the flight, from liftoff to enjoying zero gravity in low Earth orbit to landing back in the West Texas desert will take about ten minutes.

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Source: Blue Origin

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Here’s what was announced at the ‘Google for Games Developer Summit’

At its Google for Games Developer Summit, Google launched several tools, upgraded old ones and added new features and resources to help support developers and their endeavours, including game development and audience growth.

According to Google, Android usage on ChromeOS grew by 50 percent since 2021 and was mostly led by games. The company’s Google Play Games beta allows you to play Android games on a tablet or Chromebook, and is now releasing its beta for Windows PC.

Last year, Google released its Android Game Development Kit, allowing developers to produce better apps and games. Since then, Google has updated the kit on several occasions, based on developer feedback. The Android Game Development Extension allows native PC developers to build for Android directly from Microsoft’s Visual Studio, in addition to a new Memory Advice API that can let developers know how much memory their apps and games are consuming on a given device.

Further, to analyze and differentiate between CPU and GPU bottlenecks, the Android Game Development Kit now also includes an Android GPU Inspector that can help developers identify performance issues and achieve better frame rates and battery life.

To continue supporting developers, Google has launched a new Google Play Partner Program for Games. The new program “will provide larger game developers and studio the resources they need to maintain and scale their games (including faster releases, additional tools to help fight scaled abuse, and more),” said a Google spokesperson.

Additional tools to support developers include ‘Reach and Distribution,’ which allows developers to understand on which device the majority of their userbase sits, helping them make better decisions about what to build for.

A resource that has been available for developers is Google’s Android Vitals. It helps developers monitor and improve their game/app’s stability on Google Play. Today, Google added a new Developer Reporting API to the already-available resource to enable developers to fetch information about their crashing, ANR (app-not-responding) rates, clusters, and stack traces.

Lastly, a feature Android users globally have been waiting for. Google announced that the Android 12-introduced Play as you Download feature will soon be widely released for all Android 12 users. Play as you Download allows users to start playing a game while its assets are being downloaded in the background.

Learn more about everything introduced at today’s Google for Games Developer Summit here.

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Source: Google

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Rogers is meeting with prospective Freedom Mobile buyers, but Québecor isn’t on the table

Discussions to sell Freedom Mobile have begun, the Globe and Mail reports.

It’s a vital aspect to complete the merger of Rogers and Shaw. Discussions on the merger began a year ago, but the fate of Shaw-owned Freedom Mobile didn’t become clear until recently.

Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry François-Philippe Champagne said earlier this month he won’t allow Shaw to transfer its wireless licenses to Rogers because it won’t help the government’s attempts to create new competition.

“The wholesale transfer of Shaw’s wireless licences to Rogers is fundamentally incompatible with our government’s policies for spectrum and mobile service competition, and I will simply not permit it,” he said in a statement.

Rogers needs to sell Freedom Mobile for the deal to close. According to the Globe and Mail, Rogers will have to convince the government the company’s new owner can compete with the country’s three largest carriers.

The Globe and Mail reports Rogers had initiated conversations with prospective buyers. While the publication has not released the names of these companies, it made clear Québecor is not one of the players. The company’s subsidiary, Vidéotron, expressed interest in acquiring Freedom Mobile.

Québecor released several statements since it became clear Shaw will have to sell Freedom Mobile. “We are pleased to see that the Committee’s members agree that we need real competition in wireless and that a strong independent fourth player would benefit Canadians,” Pierre Karl Péladeau, Québecor’s president and CEO,  said shortly after Minister Champagne made his comments. 

Source: Globe and Mail

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Lockdown of China’s Silicon Valley could mean trouble for worldwide electronics market

Portland, OR, USA – Oct 19, 2021: The Foxconn logo is seen on a new iPhone 13 Mini. Foxconn Technology Group is a Taiwanese multinational electronics contract manufacturer and a key Apple supplier.

The recent lockdown of Shenzhen means trouble for electronic supplies around the globe.

The city located in southeastern China is known as a technology hub and supplies electronics for many notable brands, including Apple.

Earlier this week, the city was put on lockdown as cases around China saw a dramatic incline, in line with the county’s zero-tolerance COVID policy. According to Reuters, it’s the largest outbreak the country has seen in two years.

Foxconn confirmed it has suspended operations in the city for at least the first half of the week. The company makes electronics for several companies and is a major supplier of iPhones.

Reuters reports Unimicron Technology Corp, with customers including Apple and Intel, has also suspended operations at this time. Sunflex Technology, a flexible printed circuit board maker, has followed suite. 

The government may allow companies to open shop again if they can create a bubble where employees work and live, similar to the experience during the Winter Olympics, the publication reports.

Mass testing is happening in the city at this time.

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Source: Reuters

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What’s new on Xbox Game Pass on console, PC and mobile in late March 2022

Every month, Xbox brings new titles to its Xbox Game Pass subscription service. Microsoft adds games to its service in two different waves and now the company has revealed what’s coming out in the second half of March.

Notably, EA and Codemaster’s F1 2021 and FoamPunch’s upcoming Shredders are among the new Game Pass titles.

  • Shredders (Cloud, PC, and Xbox Series X|S) – March 17th
  • The Dungeon of Naheulbeuk: The Amulet of Chaos (Cloud, Console, and PC) – March 17th
  • Tainted Grail: Conquest (Console) – March 22nd
  • Zero Escape: The Nonary Games (Cloud, Console, and PC) – March 22nd
  • Norco (PC) – March 24th
  • F1 2021 (Console) – March 24th
  • Crusader Kings III (Xbox Series X|S) – March 29th
  • Weird West (Cloud, Console, and PC) – March 31st

And, here’s what’s leaving Game Pass on March 31st:

  • Madden NFL 20 (Cloud, Console, and PC)
  • Narita Boy (Cloud, Console, and PC)
  • Shadow Warrior 2 (Cloud, Console, and PC)

Xbox Game Pass is available on Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PC and Android and iOS in beta. Game Pass for Console and PC Game Pass each cost $11.99/month.

Furthermore, Xbox Game Pass Ultimate costs $16.99/month and is required for streaming (which Xbox refers to as ‘Cloud’) to mobile devices and browsers. On top of that, this tier includes Game Pass for both Console and PC, as well as subscriptions to Xbox Live Gold and EA Play.

Find out what came to Game Pass in early March here.

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Source: Xbox

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Arm to cut almost 1,000 jobs following collapse of Nvidia deal

Arm, the U.K.-based company behind ARM chip designs used in smartphones, Apple computers, and more, plans to cut almost 1,000 employees from its workforce.

The news comes after Arm’s parent company, Softbank, abandoned plans to sell Arm to Nvidia for $40 billion USD (roughly $51.1 billion CAD) due to “significant regulatory challenges.” Instead, Softbank planned to take Arm public.

The Telegraph reported that Arm’s chief executive, Rene Haas, told staff on Monday that the company could cut between 12 and 15 percent of employees. According to The Guardian, Arm has 6,500 employees worldwide — 15 percent would be about 975 employees.

Arm says the majority of the roles affected will be in its U.K. and U.S. workforces. The Telegraph saw an email sent by Haas, which said:

“This is going to be a tough time for everyone, so I want to be clear on why we are doing this.

“To be successful in the opportunities we have ahead of us, we need to be more disciplined about our costs and where we’re investing.

“To stay competitive, we need to remove duplication of work now that we are one Arm; stop work that is no longer critical to our future success; and think about how we get work done. It’s essential that we focus on activities that will move our strategy forward at pace.”

Moreover, The Telegraph reports that Haas says Arm will help staff move to other jobs.

It’s worth noting that Arm reported an increase in revenue earlier this year, and Haas said it put the company in a good position to keep investing.

However, The Telegraph reports that Arm’s former chief executive, Simon Segars, warned that Arm wouldn’t be able to sustain its current levels of investment if it went public instead of selling to Nvidia.

When reached for comment, an Arm spokesperson told The Telegraph that “Like any business, Arm is continually reviewing its business plan to ensure the company has the right balance between opportunities and cost discipline. Unfortunately, this process includes proposed redundancies across Arm’s global workforce.”

Source: The Telegraph Via: The Verge

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Video games could enhance reading skills: Canadian study

Playing video games could improve reading skills, according to a new Canadian study.

Shaylyn Kress, a University of Saskatchewan (U of S) psychology graduate student, led a research team to investigate how gaming might affect reading. As part of this study, the team analyzed the most popular types of games and looked at each one to determine the number of objects that players had to react to. These were judged based on their placement: peripherally (the side, bottom or top of the screen) versus the middle of the screen.

From there, participants of varying levels of experience playing games were instructed to read flashing words in one of eight possible places on the screen. These were a mix of well-known, simple words and fake words that needed to be sounded out to read.

Ultimately, the study found that the more successful participants were those who played more games. The reasoning, per the research team, is that exposure to peripheral demands seems to exercise visual attention systems in the brain that are needed for reading skills.

Speaking to Saskatoon’s StarPhoenix, Kress added that, per the findings, participants with more gaming experience may be able to read known words and sound out new words more quickly than those who don’t often play.

Of course, one research team’s findings don’t immediately prove that gaming can benefit reading, but it’s an interesting case study nonetheless. Given that the overwhelming majority of kids play games (89 percent of those aged 6-17, per the Entertainment Software Association of Canada), it would certainly be good if the medium improved reading skills.

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Via: The StarPhoenix

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Steam’s Capcom Publisher Sale is discounting games until March 21

Steam’s Capcom Publisher Sale is discounting a variety of titles like Monster Hunter Rise, Resident Evil Village and Dead Rising 4.

These discounted games, DLC and more are available until March 21st.

Below are the discounted titles:

Soure: Steam, RedFlagDeals