Conserving the Past

Conserving the Past

Originally uploaded by Leo Laporte.

BCE Place in Toronto.

This is with my camera phone so the quality isn’t great – but I couldn’t resist the juxtaposition of this old building embedded inside a modern atrium.

To me this is the epitome of modern Toronto.

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Trump to block downloads of TikTok, WeChat on Sunday 18 September 2020

The department’s move is an enforcement of Trump’s original executive order from Aug. 6 that gave TikTok 45 days to sell its U.S. business to an American company or face a ban in this country. The end of the 45-day period is Sunday. WeChat, one of the world’s most popular social messaging apps, is owned by the Chinese […]

TikTok Accepts Deal Revisions as Trump Prepares to Review Proposal - The New York Times 18 September 2020

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Mozilla wants your help to fix terrible YouTube recommendations - The Verge 17 September 2020

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Facebook's Infinite Office is a virtual office space for the WFH crowd | Engadget 17 September 2020

With Infinite Office, you can put on the headset and be transported to a virtual office space that you can make as big or small as you wish. You can also add multiple customizable screens, which mimics a multiple monitor setup. The company has already begun experiments that incorporates Infinite Office with Spatial, a collaborative […]

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