Tempo unveil Dot the Arctic Hare and Dez the Snapping Turtle as mascots

An arctic hare and a snapping turtle are the new faces of the Toronto Tempo.

The lone Canadian WNBA franchise unveiled Dot the Arctic Hare and Dez the Snapping Turtle as the team’s two official mascots on Tuesday.

The mascots were revealed during halftime of the Tempo’s game against the Indiana Fever.

The Tempo are in the midst of their inaugural season and now have two figures that will be forever associated with the team.

“From the beginning, we wanted our mascots to feel distinctly Tempo – rooted in who

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Tumbler Ridge school demolition 'new chapter' in recovery after shooting, residents say

Residents in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., gathered for an emotional milestone this week as the site of February’s mass shooting is torn down and returned to grass.


Modular's Mojo Language Now Open-Source Following Qualcomm Acquisition

Modular, the AI startup founded by Chris Lattner of LLVM and Swift fame, has open-sourced their Mojo systems programming language! This comes following the recent acquisition of Modular by Qualcomm.

Modular had previously open-sourced the Mojo standard library. With the recent Qualcomm acquisition I didn't expect to see much on the open-sourcing side given Qualcomm's mixed history, but following last week's Mojo 1.0 release, Mojo is now available under an Apache 2.0 license.

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China’s LandSpace beats SpaceX with steel-booster recovery after orbital launch

In a global first, China’s leading commercial rocket company LandSpace has recovered a stainless-steel booster after an orbital launch, marking a major step in the country’s efforts to develop lower-cost, reusable rockets. Photo: CCTV

Ling Xin in Ohio and Victoria Bela in Hong Kong

In a global first, China’s leading commercial rocket company LandSpace has recovered a stainless-steel booster after an orbital launch, marking a major step in the country’s efforts to develop lower-cost, reusable rockets.

The successful mission makes Zhuque-3 China’s first commercial rocket to both reach


COSMIC Epoch 1.6 Released With Per-App Volume Control, Remote Desktop Preparations

COSMIC Epoch 1.6 was released this evening as the latest milestone for this open-source, Rust-based desktop environment led by System76 as part of the work on their Pop!_OS Linux distribution.

The COSMIC Epoch 1.6 compositor added support for the Wayland wl-dmabuf-v6 protocol, now takes presentation feedback from fullscreen surfaces, and also added EI protocol support. The emulated input (EI) support is part of the COSMIC effort for remote desktop support. COSMIC Epoch 1.
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Amazon傳拆卸珍本書,以取得AI模型訓練資料集

404 Media報導 ,以賣書起家的Amazon購入大量珍本書籍,將拆卸開來掃描,用以訓練AI模型。

404 Media是以調查報導方式,在書本內置入追蹤裝置,最後查到書本運抵Amazon於拉斯維加斯,名為VGT3的物流中心。

Amazon以簡單聲明回覆媒體説


Harvard agrees to pay millions after morgue manager sold body parts

Harvard has agreed to pay $53 million (£39 million) to resolve lawsuits from families who alleged the university mishandled the bodies of loved ones donated to its medical school.

The settlement, proposed in a Boston court on Monday, would end the suits filed against Harvard ​Medical School (HMS) after former morgue manager Cedric Lodge pleaded guilty to stealing and selling human remains on the black market.

Lodge, 58, took parts from cadavers and sold them online in a scheme that allegedly ran from 2


Natalie Harp, Trump’s ‘human printer’, in the spotlight after decoy plane incident

A close aide to Donald Trump is at the centre of an ugly clash between the White House and Senator Jon Ossoff, after the Democratic lawmaker drew the administration’s ire for highlighting the close nature of her relationship with the president.

Natalie Harp, a 35-year-old executive assistant to the president, is little known to the public but a constant presence at Trump’s side, both in the White House and during weekend trips to his golf properties. In her role, she is seen as a

US Senator Jon Ossoff during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in July. Photo: TNS

用無印良品收納包打造「閱讀組合」,解決攜帶難題

用無印良品收納包打造「閱讀組合」,解決攜帶難題

※本文為重新編輯2025年9月25日公開的 文章 後再次刊登。 Text and Photographed by 田中青紗

為了在移動途中閱讀,我總是隨身攜帶某一本書。

不過,放在包包裡時, 書本的髒污和磨損 就讓人在意了……。

把無印良品的商品變成「書本收

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South Korea accelerates military self-reliance over Trump’s ‘unpredictability’

US President Donald Trump’s abrupt move to scale back annual military drills with South Korea has handed President Lee Jae Myung a fresh impetus for greater defence self-reliance even as he seeks to maintain the long-standing alliance.

Lee on Tuesday called for accelerated efforts to regain wartime operational control (OPCON) of South Korean forces from the United States and build nuclear-powered submarines, casting both as part of a broader push to boost South Korea’s ability to defend itself.

His comments reflect Seoul’s growing