Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Steve Kupferman
Publication Date: January 4, 2025 - 07:00
Video game companies are cashing in on middle-aged gamers seeking retro fun. But can technology recapture a feeling?
January 4, 2025
Palmer Luckey, the billionaire tech entrepreneur who founded Anduril Industries, a defence contractor that builds killer drones, is in the midst of launching a new product.It’s a hand-held device packed with high-tech circuitry, enclosed in a sleek magnesium-alloy shell with a sapphire crystal face. This US$199 device, called the Chromatic, has only one function: It plays decades-old video-game cartridges originally designed for the Nintendo Game Boy.
The survey from TransUnion also found about 26 per cent of Canadians said they expect to be unable to pay at least one bill or loan in 2025.
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Tre Odoms-Dukes will be reunited with Mark Kilam, who is now the new head coach for the Elks.
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The director of a Quebec homeless shelter is urging empathy after a 38-year-old unhoused woman was charged for allegedly abandoning her newborn outside in the cold shortly after giving birth on the street on New Year’s Day.The woman, who can’t be named because of a publication ban protecting the infant, was scheduled to appear in court on Tuesday in Trois-Rivières, Que., about 125 kilometres northeast of Montreal. She has been charged with failing to provide the necessaries of life to her baby, who survived.Trois-Rivières police spokesperson Stéphanie Côté says police received a call...
January 7, 2025 - 16:04 | | The Globe and Mail
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