September 26, 2019

September 26th is the 269th day of the year. There are 96 days remaining until the end of the year.

Come by Sons of Kent for Rise House Trivia Night tonight.

Trivia starts at 7. $20 per person, teams of 4.

Email cktrivia@gmail.com for more info.

The True Fantasies Bridal Expo is Friday night at Links of Kent starting at 5:30.

Everything involved with planning a wedding in one room!

The expo is free to attend with the donation of a canned good. Pre-register now to save you time when you arrive.

As of today, the speed limit on the 402 goes up to 110 km/h.

The pilot project on select highways begins today on the 402, the Queen Elizabeth Way (QEW) from St. Catharines to Hamilton, and Highway 417 from Ottawa/Gloucester to the Ontario/Quebec border.

This will mark the first time 400-series highway speed limits in Ontario have been adjusted since the 1970s when they were lowered from 113 km/h during an oil crisis.

Amazon is rolling out new celebrity voices for Alexa,they’re using new technology to give Alexa smoother, more natural-sounding speech patterns

Later this year the first celebrity voice will be Samuel L. Jackson. And yes, you can choose between clean and explicit versions.

It’ll cost 99 cents or $4.99 if you buy it after 2019. Amazon says more celebrities are coming in 2020, but there’s no word who yet.

Amazon is also rolling out a “frustration detection” feature that’ll determine when you’re getting frustrated with Alexa screwing up your requests, and try to apologize.

Mattel just launched a line of gender-neutral Barbie dolls called the Creatable World collection.

They say the dolls are free of labels. The dolls come with pants, skirts and long and short haired wigs.

Categorised in: 5 Things You Need To Know

This post was written by Chris McLeod