March 21, 2019

 It’s Funky Sock Day!

In honour of down syndrome awareness day on March 21 (Third Month, 21st Day… three copies of the 21st Chromosome) throw on some funky socks!

You can wear funky, wild, mis-matched, many or crazy socks! Just wear fun socks in support of Down syndrome Awareness! Get your friends, family, classmates, teachers, principal, school, co-workers, neighbors or just about anyone to support!

Show off your socks by posting on social media, use the #lotsofsocks

Habitat for Humanity Chatham-Kent is hosting a Trivia Night tonight at the Links of Kent.

$25/person and teams of no more than 4.

Ten rounds of 10 questions each. Door prizes, fun, and food & beverages are available.

Tim Horton’s launched its new loyalty program across Canada yesterday.

The rewards program is centered on visits, which must involve a purchase of $0.50 or more, and can’t be within half an hour of each other. After seven visits, customers get a free coffee or tea at any size, or a baked good (except Timbits and bagels).

Instead of a paper card, the rewards program will be offered on the Tim Hortons mobile app as well as on a plastic, reusable swipe card — giving Tim Hortons a wider window into customer buying habits.

Oh Tims, you spoil us. 😍 #canada https://t.co/rFsOAL4yn0

— Narcity Canada (@NarcityCanada) March 20, 2019

The NFL, MLB, NBA, and NHL have all been obsessed with tweaking their sports to make games shorter and more exciting, that’s where Apple comes in with their new idea: Just eliminate whole games altogether.

For about a year, they’ve been loosely developing a service that would curate sports highlights in real time, so that, in theory, you’d see the best moments that are happening across all sports at any given time.

For the record, nothing is imminent. Apple’s research into this is reportedly in the “first inning.” It’s unclear how they’d even get the rights to all these video feeds, how they’d determine what was most significant in real-time and how they’d provide enough context to allow people to understand that significance.

New cars from Volvo are going to be equipped with cameras and sensors that will monitor a driver for signs of distraction and intoxication.

If a driver isn’t paying attention, the car will issue an audible warning before slowing down and then automatically pulling over to a safe location.

Earlier this month, the company announced its future cars will have a max speed limit of 112mph/180kmh.

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This post was written by Chris McLeod