Monthly Archive: March 2018

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Air Canada says some hotel bookings caught up in Orbitz data breach

MONTREAL — Air Canada says some customers who booked hotels through their travel partner Orbitz may have had their personal data stolen. The company says Orbitz informed it that potentially 2,287 bookings through Air Canada hotel options could have been involved in a data breach of 800,000 records that Orbitz reported on March 20. At […]

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California Judge: Coffee needs cancer warnings

LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles judge has ruled that California law requires coffee companies to carry a cancer warning label. Superior Court Judge Elihu Berle said in a proposed decision Wednesday that Starbucks and other coffee companies failed to show the threat from a chemical compound produced in the coffee roasting process was insignificant. […]

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NOT REAL NEWS: Government didn’t find cocaine in Coors Light

DENVER — The U.S. government didn’t find Coors Light beer laced with cocaine, despite claims that originated on a satirical website. The article claiming the Food and Drug Administration discovered “thousands” of contaminated beers nationwide first appeared in 2014 at the site huzlers. The claims continue to be shared via social media. The story quoted […]

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Goldcorp dips a pinky toe in blockchain waters

Every trade on Vault Chain will be backed one-to-one by physical gold bullion in storage, and any producer can use it to sell gold

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Liberals urged to tackle killer robots at G7 as part of AI innovation push

OTTAWA — The Trudeau government is facing pressure on several fronts to lead an international ban on the use of autonomous weapons, the so-called “killer robots” that some fear could result from artificial intelligence run amok. The calls come as Canada hosted a G7 meeting this week in which ministers from the world’s richest economies […]