Thursday, June 13, 2024

Paris Olympics organizers say swimming events still set for cleaned-up Seine River

Athletes swim in the Seine River during a test event on Aug. 17, 2023 for the women's Olympic triathlon in August 2024 in Paris, France.

Despite the complication of recent heavy rain, swimming in the River Seine is still the plan at the Paris Olympics after a $1.5 billion US investment to improve the water quality.



source https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/summer/swimming-events-paris-olympics-clean-seine-river-1.7234461?cmp=rss

Utah Hockey Club will be name of NHL's newest team for inaugural season

The outside view of the front entrance of an NHL arena

Utah Hockey Club will be the name of the NHL team playing its games in Salt Lake City beginning this fall, with a long-term identity still to come.



source https://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/nhl/utah-hockey-club-nhl-team-name-1.7234407?cmp=rss

Musk says he has Tesla shareholder support for controversial $56B pay package

A dark-haired man with some facial hair wearing a tshirt is shown in closeup.

Tesla shareholders are voting to approve a $56 billion US pay package for Elon Musk and to move the electric vehicle maker's legal home to Texas, the CEO said on social media on Wednesday, adding that passage was by wide margins.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/tesla-musk-compensation-package-1.7233541?cmp=rss

How a New Jersey man was wrongly arrested through facial recognition tech now in use in Ontario

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A New Jersey man is sharing with CBC News the ordeal he endured after being wrongly jailed following a misidentification through Idemia facial recognition technology, the same system recently implemented by police in Ontario's Peel and York regions. A lawsuit blames the “misuse of biased technology.”



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/facial-recognition-technology-police-1.7228253?cmp=rss