August 28, 2020

August 28, 2020 5:55 am Published by

August 28th is the 241st day of the year. There are 125 days remaining until the end of the year.

Environment Canada has issued a rainfall warning for Chatham-Kent and most of South Western Ontario with thunderstorms expected this afternooon.

Some areas could get 30-55 millimetres of heavy rain on today and tomorrow.

The Chatham-Kent Public Health Unit reported 2 new cases of COVID-19, three recovered cases and no one person in the hospital recovering. There are 8 active cases.

Ontario reported 118 new positive cases, the biggest rise in cases of the week.

A 1,000-km/hour high speed travel ‘pod’ is coming to Canada.

The government of Alberta has signed an agreement with Canadian transportation tech company TransPod to develop and test a high-speed hyperloop between Edmonton and Calgary. Construction won’t begin until 2025.

There are a handful of companies developing this technology — which allows pods to travel at high speeds in a low-pressure tube – most projects around the world are in the very early stages. This would be the first such project in Canada.

The TransPod vehicles would travel up to 1,000 kilometres per hour, with an average speed of between 400 and 600 kilometres per hour. Alberta’s hyperloop line would stop at the Edmonton and Calgary airports as well as Red Deer, and the total moving time of the full line would be a half-hour. It’s currently almost a 300-kilometre drive between the two cities.

The project is expected to cost $6-$10-billion-dollars.

Amazon just unveiled a new fitness tracker called the Halo Band.

It includes a featured called Tone” that tracks your voice and tells you if you’re being a jerk or not.

The A.I. in it analyzes your voice and tells you what you sound like to other people. Things like “happy,” “hopeful,” “confused,” “worried,” “affectionate,” “bored,” and “apologetic.” And it’s supposed to help with communication skills at work, and in relationships.

The promo video really focuses on the relationship part. There’s a guy sleeping on the couch after a fight with his wife. Then he checks his Halo app, realizes he wasn’t being supportive and apologizes to her.

It also does normal stuff, like counting steps and tracking your sleep patterns. It’ll cost $99 on Amazon, but you can request early access and get it for $65 right now.

You also have to subscribe to the tracking app for $4 a month. But the first six months are free.

Lego and IKEA have teamed up for a new furniture line.

The Swedish home-design company called their new furniture range, Bygglek, a “playful storage solution” that will engage kids in the cleaning process

The Bygglek line is “more than boxes.” Bygglek provides families with a product range that helps create space for more play in their everyday lives — fueling creativity, making it possible to have more fun together.

The build-it-yourself storage set includes chests in various sizes that are molded with Lego boards, allowing children to create various characters and landscapes across their toy boxes.

Bygglek will be available in stores and online on October 1st.

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This post was written by Chris McLeod