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The federal government says it received more than 21,000 emails on proposed changes to how major projects are reviewed and will spend the coming weeks combing over those submissions. A window for public feedback on the proposed changes closed Wednesday. The government said it will publish a report summarizing the submissions by the end of the summer.A spokesperson for the Privy Council Office — which oversees the major projects office — said that while officials are still compiling the feedback, as of July 17 the government had received 187 written submissions from stakeholders. They included Indigenous and environmental groups, think…

Descrease article font size Increase article font size A Canadian woman of Chinese origin who was an intern at NATO’s military headquarters in Belgium has been arrested on spying charges, Belgian prosecutors said on Saturday. “She is suspected of spying on behalf of a third country and of being a member of a criminal organisation,” the Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement.The woman worked as an intern at NATO’s Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) in the Belgian city of Mons, the statement said. It did not provide further details of her identity or the country or organisation…

Is an e-reader case as dangerous as a Glock 19?Last month, Louisville, Kentucky-based creator Luke The Maker showed off a bizarre, 3D-printed, pistol-shaped case design for the popular minimalist Xteink X4 e-reader. The X4 lies vertically atop the plastic gun’s slide, with a cutout on the side to access its buttons. Though the frame was digitally modeled after a real gun, this “case” can’t shoot bullets. Squeezing the trigger does nothing at all. He calls his contraption the “Gundle.”In a post showing off the wacky accessory, Luke (whose last name is Blackford) can be seen flipping through Cormac McCarthy’s Blood…

France was preparing to use a massive specially adapted cargo aircraft to dump flame retardants Saturday on a wildfire that has forced the evacuation of tens of thousands of people, including from some suburbs of the wine region city of Bordeaux. Including some 70,000 people evacuated in central Spain, wildfires in southern Europe this week have displaced more than 250,000 people.French Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said the hulking A400M aircraft will join 18 other water- and retardant-dropping planes and helicopters waging an expected “long and very difficult” battle against the blaze raging in the Gironde region of southwestern France.With winds…

Earth City, Missouri, July 25, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — During some of the most challenging weeks of summer, ImpactLife turns to fans of “real rock radio” KSHE-95 for help with the St. Louis region’s blood supply. The loyal and generous KSHE audience came through during the month of July, with nearly 2000 volunteer donors stepping forward at 13 blood drives held across the St. Louis region.  The blood drive provides essential support during a critical time of year, with 1968 donors coming through the doors to provide 1896 blood components. These donations help ImpactLife recover from losses at Fourth of July…

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 137, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, happy phone season, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.)This week, I’ve been reading about Google Zero and armored cars for rich people, watching a lot of That’s a Bad Idea videos now that YouTube knows my love for Curry Barker, testing the new 2Do redesign for my tasks, watching this excellent doc about the legendary designer Susan Kare, obsessing over every sound on the Jauffre’s Sounds TikTok, sending myself lockscreen…

MARIETTA, Ga., July 25, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — According to the National Park Service Annual Visitation Report, more than 323 million people visited U.S. national parks in 2025, with 26 parks setting new visitation records. However, once visitors leave developed areas or visitor centers, cellular coverage is often limited or unavailable. For this reason, park organizations consistently encourage travelers to have a backup plan before heading into remote areas. ANCEL, a global leader in automotive diagnostics and battery protection technology, is reminding drivers that a dead battery miles from a signal isn’t just inconvenient — it can leave you stranded…

Tech companies love to sell us expensive gadgets to solve all of life’s little problems. Sleepbuds sold by the likes of Anker and Ozlo are a good example. These miniature marvels of engineering sit flush in the ear, and allow side-sleepers to doze off listening to podcasts, audiobooks, music, or white noise without annoying their partner. But why pay over $200 for a second pair of highly specialized buds when you can spend a fraction of that for a product that never needs charging, never loses its Bluetooth connection, and won’t need replacing in a few years after the battery…

“I’m not leaving,” said Ira Robinson, who lives in Clinton, B.C. As wildfires continue to burn across Canada, residents say they will stay to defend their homes, while John Gradek, a McGill University lecturer who has studied Canada’s wildfire response, says the country needs to rethink how it prepares for increasingly intense fire seasons.“The old strategies that we used to have 15 or 20 or 30 years ago just don’t cut it,” he said.There are now approximately 193 properties on evacuation order and 104 properties on evacuation alert due to the Fiftynine Creek wildfire in the Thompson Nicola Regional District.The…

Planned Investments to Scale NAVER’s Initial Multi-Tenant NVIDIA DSX AI Factory to 200 Megawatts by 2028, Fueling Next Generation of Korea and US AI Innovators NAVER, NVIDIA and Brookfield NAVER, NVIDIA and Brookfield today announced a proposed expansion of Korea’s sovereign AI factory infrastructure. News Summary: NAVER, NVIDIA and Brookfield plan to invest in gigawatt-scale, multi-tenant AI cloud infrastructure to power the next generation of AI companies in Korea and the U.S.NAVER and NVIDIA team plan to expand the initial NVIDIA DSX AI factory buildout at GAK Sejong data center from 55 megawatts to 200 megawatts by 2028.NAVER plans to…