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Maman Dion’s house sold for $2.1 million

Post author By Xavier Campbell
Post date April 13, 2024

Three years after her death, the house of Thérèse Tanguay, the mother of singer Céline Dion, officially found a buyer for the sum of 2.1 million dollars.

According to notarized documents obtained by The newspaperthe transaction was concluded on September 6 in the presence of representatives of the singer and the estate of Ms. Dion, better known in Quebec as Maman Dion.

The buyer is a numbered company belonging to François Duplantie, president of Novatek, a Laval real estate developer. It is this same businessman who acquired the former mansion of the Dion-Angélil couple in 2016, on Gagnon Island in Laval.

Located just opposite, on the south bank of the Mille-Îles River, Ms. Dion’s house was put up for sale by the singer last April, for the sum of $2,398,000. Ultimately, the sellers agreed to let it go for $298,000 less, or 12.4% less than the asking price.

Built in 2002, the residence on avenue Thérèse-Casgrain, in the Sainte-Rose district of Laval, was occupied by Maman Dion until her death in January 2020. Her husband and father of Céline, Adhémar Dion, was there. also lived for some time. , until his death in November 2003.

With a living area of 5,000 sq. ft., this residence has a total of 16 rooms, including three bedrooms, three bathrooms, a workshop and a solarium with a view of the river. A fountain also adorns the backyard of the residence.

In 2020, Mr. Duplantie surprised by confiding Newspaper its intention to embark on the construction of a project of 700 co-ownership units around Céline Dion’s mansion, on Gagnon Island, as well as on the land of Thérèse Tanguay’s residence.

No demolition planned

This announcement worried residents of the area and regulars at the Parc de la Rivière des Mille-Îles, who work not far away to preserve and highlight the wildlife and aquatic spaces of the archipelago.

In an interview with the Journal on Monday afternoon, Mr. Duplantie assured that the demolition of the residence on Avenue Thérèse-Casgrain was no longer on the agenda, as was his project to build condos on the island. Gagnon.

“It’s something we tried. But there is no social acceptability, he says. Under these circumstances, we decided to move back. The house will not be demolished and the project I had no longer exists. Nothing happens. »

Verification made, the new urban planning code (CDU) of Laval, in force since November 2022, only provides for the construction of single-family residences of two floors or less for the sector. A developer could always request a modification to the existing zoning, but no request to this effect has yet been submitted to the City’s planning department.

With the contribution of Philippe Langlois and Sylvain Larocque.

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Tags Dions, House, Maman, million, sold

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Gang of ‘food fraudsters’ sold cheap scrap meat ‘unfit for human consumption’, court told

Post author By Stephen Gonzales
Post date April 13, 2024

Cheap waste meat meant for pet food was deliberately diverted for human consumption by four businessmen, whose plot was ‘driven by massive profits’, according to a trial heard yesterday.

“Low-risk” animal parts, which are usually sold for between £100 and £120 a tonne, immediately became much more valuable when sold as food to the public, Inner London Crown Court said.

A visit by Southwark Council’s food safety team to an unsanitary, secret and illegal ‘cutting room’ where 1.9 tonnes of meat and poultry were seized revealed the scam, the jury heard.

Four men and a company are indicted for criminal conspiracy to divert animal by-products unfit for human consumption into the food chain between June 1 and September 22, 2020.

They include Anthony Fear, 61, and his company Fear Animal Products Ltd, alongside commercial director Mark Hooper, 62.

A visit by Southwark Council’s food safety team to an unsanitary, secret and illegal ‘cutting room’ where 1.9 tonnes of meat and poultry were seized revealed the scam, the jury heard. Pictured: Anthony Fear, 61, owner of Fear Animal Products Ltd

Among the seized meat was 160 kilos of lamb ___s and the labels on the by-product led investigators to Fear and Hooper. Pictured: Mark Hooper, 62, director of Fear Animal Products Ltd

Ali Afzal, 44, and Azar Irshad, 37, are jointly charged with seven counts of failing to comply with food regulations and each face one count of failing to comply with regulations.

Prosecutor Ryan Thompson said: ‘This is a food fraud case.

“These defendants conspired together to defraud by taking meat and poultry animal by-products unfit for human consumption and diverting them into the food chain and were motivated by massive profits. »

The case involves animal parts deemed ‘low risk’ but still unfit for human consumption, the jury heard.

“This is frequently used for pet food and has a low value,” the prosecutor said.

Council officers visited the premises of Walworth, which was only accessible via a narrow secure walkway at the rear and another business at the front, on September 22, 2020.

Among the seized meat was 160 kilos of lamb ___s and the labels on the by-product led investigators to Fear and Hooper.

Both are involved in running Fear Animal Products Ltd., Mr. Thompson said. “The company collects animal by-products and transports them to another company, a pet food manufacturer. »

Ali Afzal, 44, has been charged alongside Azar Irshad, 37, with seven counts of failing to comply with food regulations and each individually faces one count of failing to comply with food regulations. regulations.

The prosecution claims Irshad (right) and Afzal were responsible for Walworth’s premises, which were filthy, lacked facilities such as hot water and had illegal food stocks which should not be sold to the public.

The prosecution said Afzal and Irshal were responsible for Walworth’s premises, which were filthy, lacked facilities such as hot water and had illegal food stocks which should not be sold to the public.

The court heard Southwark Council was told by the National Food Crime Unit in March 2020 about the sale of illegal meat, but an inspector was unable to gain access to the cutting room premises.

“Through a flat roof he saw this room and took a picture of it and noticed a foul smell of rotting meat coming from the fan,” Mr Thompson explained.

Southwark Council returned on 22 September, entering through a blocked door from another company and found two workers inside.

“There was a large amount of cut up, skinned and washed raw poultry and lemon juice was used to try to clean the chicken and there was a garden hose.

“The situation was extremely bad. There was no hot water to wash your hands, just a hose and there was peeling and missing paint on the walls.

In a large cooler were found 160 kilos of lamb ___s, two kilos of beef burgers and in a black trash bag illegal sheep’s heads and cow’s legs and tongues.

The jury heard that the labels on the by-products led them to companies in Wales and Cornwall, from which Fear Animal Products Ltd. salvaged the “low risk” meat.

Fear Animal Products Ltd. was responsible for transporting tonnes of meat to Doncaster, where it became pet food, but instead ended up in a secret cutting room in Walworth, intended for human consumption, the jury heard.

The trial continues.

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Tags cheap, consumption, court, food, fraudsters, Gang, human, Meat, scrap, sold, told, unfit

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Skyrim: There are now only six other games that have sold better

Post author By Henry Alexander
Post date April 13, 2024

60 million Dovahkiins have roamed Skyrim.

Of course, when you hear the name Bethesda, the first thing you think of these days is Starfield. The sci-fi role-playing game will take off for the stars on September 6, 2023 and is eagerly awaited by millions of fans worldwide.

Starfield is following in gigantic footsteps, however, as its ancestor The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim recently hit a new milestone in sales and continues to climb the top-selling PC and video games list.

Reached 7th place, but 1st place is out of reach

60 million times Skyrim is said to have sold out by now. An impressive number that is not thrown into the room by just any analyst, but by Mr. Elder Scrolls himself, Todd Howard.

The game director and executive producer for all of Bethesda’s major open-world games since The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind spoke to IGN about Starfield, his retirement, and briefly about Skyrim:

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Irregular heart rhythm detection reaches Samsung smartwatches sold in Argentina

Post author By Nicholas Ross
Post date April 13, 2024

Samsung announced yesterday that a new WearOS updatethe operating system of its smart watches (which it has developed together with Google since 2021) will include detection of irregular heart rhythmalso known as atrial fibrillation, complementing the other function that has been available in Argentina since the end of last year, which is the performing electrocardiograms and measuring blood pressure with one of his watches.

This new function will be available at the end of the year as the One UI 5 Watch update, and it will reach the Galaxy Watch4 of 2021, the Watch5 of 2022 and, of course, the generation that will be performing in Seoul at the end of July this year. Argentina is one of the 13 countries where this irregular heart rhythm detection tool is approved by the corresponding medical organizations.

The Galaxy Watch4 and Watch5 already have electrocardiograms enabled with the watch; with an upcoming update they will be able to alert the user of an irregular heart rhythm

Along with this update come other features, such as better sleep tracking, better training plans and the automatic activation of fall detectiona function aimed at the elderly, and which has been present in Samsung watches for years, but which will now be activated by default.

It is worth clarifying, as always, that although all these sensors have been tested and work correctly, and allow us to have an unprecedented amount of updated information about the functioning of our body, when in doubt, contact someone specialized in cardiology or clinical medicine general, and you should not jump to conclusions when faced with an unusual result, something that can end up making things worse.

The Apple Watch Series 4 was one of the first watches to include a sensor that allows you to perform electrocardiograms

The Galaxy Watch are by no means the first to offer these functions (the ECG has been available since 2018 on various watches, starting with Apple Watch), but they are the only one that has formal authorization to activate these measurements in Argentina. The apple watchFor example, they do not have the ability to carry out electrocardiograms or alerts for irregular heart rhythm in our country. There’s even a Change.org petition for the company to do so. In the same situation are the Fitbit Sense or Pixel Watchwhich have electrocardiogram and irregular heart rhythm notification functions, but are not available in Argentina:This page shows which features are available in each country. Nothing prevents lying to the clock and setting it as if we were in another country, of course, but it is not ideal.

In any case, the approval of Samsung watches for these functions at the local level is good news, even for those who are users of other brands; To the extent that the presence of these functions is normalized (and popularized), the interest of brands in achieving medical validation in the country will be greater, and we will be able to use them with more peace of mind.

Tags Argentina, detection, Heart, Irregular, reaches, rhythm, Samsung, smartwatches, sold

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Jeff Bezos has sold Amazon shares to buy ULA, the launch company of Boeing and Lockheed, according to Ars Technica

Post author By Keith Ramirez
Post date April 13, 2024

Jeff Bezos’ next move could forever change the game board of the aerospace industry. His company Blue Origin would be close to buying United Launch Alliance (ULA), the space launch business of the old glories Boeing and Lockheed Martin.

The deal is “almost done.” There were three potential buyers for ULA, but according to Ars Technica, Blue Origin is very close to closing the deal and taking the cake, so a formal announcement is expected in a couple of months.

According to the same source, the other two interested parties are a private equity firm and a smaller aerospace company that have been left in the background. The price of the acquisition, still a matter of conjecture, could range between 2,000 and 3,000 million dollars.

Bezos sells Amazon shares. One of the most intrusive clues to the movement is Jeff Bezos’ recent sale of Amazon shares. The tycoon sold $4 billion in shares of the company he founded and ran until the end of 2021.

In addition, Bezos made public in a filing to the SEC his intention to sell up to 50 million Amazon shares, valued at about $8,475 million, in the next 12 months. He will benefit from the low tax burden applied to capital by the state of Florida, where he recently moved to be close to his parents… and Blue Origin.

The end of an era: New Space now rules. ULA was created as a joint venture between the giants Boeing and Lockheed Martin, which dominated space launches in the United States until the emergence of SpaceX.

ULA specializes in government launches, but the price crash caused by SpaceX’s reusable rockets forced it to implement deep internal changes under the leadership of Tory Bruno. Bruno has managed to match his offer with that of Falcon rockets thanks to a new, more modern and cheaper launcher, the Vulcan Centaur, which debuted earlier this year with Blue Origin engines.

The unknown: what will happen to Tory Bruno. The leader of ULA is beloved, charismatic, and has had several run-ins with Elon Musk, a natural enemy of Jeff Bezos. But his role after the hypothetical sale to Blue Origin is unknown.

Blue Origin, founded in 2000, changed its CEO a few months ago. During this time, its new leader, David Limp, has managed to change the company’s image with more transparent communication focused on its progress. The object of ridicule for never having reached orbit, the company has just launched its first orbital rocket, the gigantic New Glenn, and expects its maiden flight this year (with a mission to Mars for NASA, no less). .

Hold on, Elon Musk, curves are coming. The competition between SpaceX and Blue Origin is more aspirational on the part of Jeff Bezos than a reality. After all, Blue Origin has yet to prove that it can reach orbit and land a giant rocket.

However, ULA’s technology (such as its advances in storing cryogenic fuels in space) gives Blue Origin a boost to compete with SpaceX and its Starship in the numerous missions to the Moon and deep space expected in the years. next years. Not to mention juicy contracts with NASA and the Pentagon, ULA’s main business.

Tags Amazon, Ars, Bezos, Boeing, buy, company, Jeff, launch, Lockheed, shares, sold, Technica, ULA

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Rabbit R1, this is the curious device with AI that has already sold more than 40,000 units before starting production

Post author By Martin Jenkins
Post date April 13, 2024

Recently, a small device has taken us by surprise: its name is the Rabbit R1and with a screen less than 3 inches, it promises to be a kind of digital assistant powered by artificial intelligence to take care of many basic tasks on a daily basis, from ordering an Uber to helping us decide what to eat.

It is a device that It looks like something out of an episode of Black Mirror, but without the horror. An idea that a few years ago would have sounded futuristic, but currently it feels so real and so close that in just 4 days more than 40,000 people have already reserved one, even though there are still months before it goes on sale. And there are certainly good reasons to be curious about one of these AI gadgets.

It looks like a Tamagotchi, but it’s closer to Her’s device than a virtual pet

The first month of 2024 has not even ended and we have already heard the words “artificial intelligence” countless times. This is something that has been happening for a couple of years, with more and more companies and manufacturers integrating AI into their products and devices, whether through conversational chatbots or useful tools based on machine learning.

And with artificial intelligence I mean precisely that, practical, real and useful uses, beyond the typical curiosity of “make me a picture of a cat playing guitar.” Companies such as OpenAI, Microsoft and Google have developed AI solutions that make it possible to facilitate the daily lives of users, summarizing texts, answering questions fluidly through a kind of conversation, and taking care of more and more routine tasks on the mobile, or helping us communicate through real-time translation of calls, as is the case with the new Galaxy S24, just to mention a few examples.

Rabbit R1 also promises to be a useful AI-based tool. With a 2.88-inch screen, a camera that can rotate 360 degrees to analyze its surroundings, a button and a rotary knob, this device You can access apps and perform actions using simple voice commandsand all that for a considerably low price.

This little guy, which looks like the evolution of a Tamagotchi, has a technology that the company, Rabbit, has named “Large Action Model” (LAM), and which, as they explain, allows the device toUse applications as if a human were using them, so to speakafter the human asks R1 to perform some task using voice.

Rabbit explains it using a couple of scenarios as an example: the user tells R1 “order an Uber for 6 people to go home”, and the device understands that what it should do is: access the Uber app, enter the address and, more importantly, select a type of service and car appropriate for more than 4 people. Another example is that the R1 You can use your camera to see what’s inside the user’s refrigerator and suggest recipes to prepare using the ingredients you have on hand.

“Shut up, and take my money.”

The device has another great attraction: it is considerably economical. Its pre-sale price is only $199, a very tempting price that has encouraged many more people and technology enthusiasts to become “early adopters”, those first users to test the R1 technology and its capabilities. It is a very interesting price for a completely new and innovative device, especially in a world where new technology proposals that promise to be the future usually cost thousands of euros.

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Jessy Lyu, CEO of Rabbit, announced on his X (Twitter) account that In just four days more than 40,000 units have been sold, and at the time of writing these lines they are working on the fifth batch of pre-sales. The first units are expected to reach their owners between the months of March and April in the United States, but they also ship to Spain. The fifth batch can be reserved from its official website, although it will take a little longer to arrive.

These types of innovative ideas They often attract the attention of technology giants, so we could see larger and better-known companies create their own similar proposals in the future, on the Rabbit R1, depending on the success and interest that the device continues to generate. This is a reflection from my colleague Javier Pastor in SamaGame, and I completely agree with what he says.

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This Evangelion popcorn makes anime fans sigh, but it is not sold in Mexico: Cinépolis and Cinemex are left without this collector’s item

Post author By Stephen Gonzales
Post date April 13, 2024

If you are a fan of collectibles, you have surely heard about the palomera that Universal Japan released in 2022. Now, starting in 2024, users report that a new design inspired by Eva-01; Will it reach Mexico and Latin America?.

Does this new dovetail really exist? ?: the short answer is yesYes, such an article exists. The way to check it is by translating this other image that also circulates on networks. In it you can read that the Thai cinema chain Major Cineplex is the one that is selling a popcorn combo that includes the popcorn maker and a collectible glass from the anime.

In addition, the promotion poster shows the capacity of the Eva-01 popper, which is 64 ounces. Finally, and to rectify its veracity, there is also a web address which sends to the Major Cineplex site, where details of the price and release date of the item in the Asian country (January 13, 2024) are given.

Promotional poster

The new Evangelion palomera will be released in Mexico and LATAM?

No, it will not be sold in our region; La palomera is exclusive to the Thai cinema chain, who launched the promotion due to the release of the films at the end of January in that country. On the other hand, no cinema in our region, Cinemex or Cinépolis in the case of Mexico, has announced the launch of the palomera, so it could be a situation similar to that of the 2022 edition, which was only launched in Japan.

Tags anime, Cinemex, Cinépolis, collectors, Evangelion, fans, Item, left, Mexico, popcorn, sigh, sold

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PS5 will close 2023 with 50 million consoles sold. How is it performing commercially versus PS4 or Switch?

Post author By Zachary Bailey
Post date April 13, 2024

The big figure is already on the table and it is official: Sony has sold 50 million PS5 consoles, and no matter how you look at it, that is outrageous. By way of illustration, the November data made it clear that 46.6 million PS5s have been distributed worldwide, so the pre-Christmas push and the Black Friday boost have been noticeable. The big plan? Sell 25 million PS5s during this fiscal year and the numbers are already starting to add up.

A huge figure with a nuance: the data just offered by Sony itself is from December 9. We understand that currently the number is somewhat higher and, as Santa Claus loads his sleigh, more will appear under the Christmas trees. And although the milestone is already there, how are sales compared to the successful PS4 or Nintendo Switch if we take the same time frame as a reference?

Starting with Sony consoles,

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15 million profiles of the Trello cloud service are being sold on the darknet

Post author By Billy Jones
Post date April 12, 2024

One of the world’s most popular cloud services for managing teams and projects, trello.com, owned by the international information security company Atlassian, has encountered a serious leak of confidential information.

It is clarified that experts discovered an advertisement on one of the forums of the shadow segment of the Internet. It says that some attackers put up for sale about 15.1 million user profiles of the Trello service. Each of them contains personal information of clients.

As stated by the authors of the Russian-language Telegram channel “Information Leaks”, published messages about the sale of client profiles of the Trello cloud service appear to be reliable. It is also clarified that for each record sold, the attackers provide the following information: the user’s full name, email address, user login in the service, as well as a link to his profile on trello.com.

Trello is a web-based project management and task organization application that uses a Kanban board system to visualize your workflow. Users can create boards (for projects) on which cards (tasks) are placed, which can be moved between columns (task stages). It helps teams organize projects and track progress in real time.

Tags cloud, darknet, million, profiles, service, sold, Trello

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Yesterday they hacked my Epic Games account and sold it on a Russian website for three euros

Post author By Daniel Wright
Post date April 12, 2024

123456 is still the most used password, incredible as it may sound. It is something that I keep remembering and that my own Computer Systems Administration professors stressed, laughing, about the importance of creating a secure password, such as with alphanumeric characters, the use of different symbols and without following an easy pattern to follow. find out with the naked eye, wow.

In my case I use different mnemonic rules of the most elaborate that only I know, but there is nothing that guarantees 100% security. Not even with two-step authentication. And if not, let them tell our fellow SamaGame Mario Merinowski, who yesterday they hacked his account at Epic Games to later sell it on a Russian website for a paltry 3 euros.

Your password was changed successfully

Last night at 11 a.m. I received an email from @EpicGames that my password was changed successfully. I haven’t played anything on Epic for more than a month. pic.twitter.com/cd1cIBMv4v

– merinowski (@merinowski_) August 16, 2020

The first point that suggests that Epic Games still needs to improve its security, is that Mario received directly a notice to your email saying that his password had been changed correctly, without even giving him prior notice that someone from Russia had connected to access his own account.

Both on Google and on Steam or Netflix, to name three different services, every time I access from a computer that is not registered, I always get a notification to the email with the IP data and which city it belongs to (although this can be masked using a VPN, but that’s another matter), in case there is a access to our account without our permission in order to notify the company that provides this service immediately. It would be the ideal, of course.

However, as we say, this did not occur in Mario’s case, so he first asked his colleagues in a WhatsApp group if it was a general failure, since it is not the first time that there are problems with security and users are asked to change their password. The difference is that in this case, the password was changed directly without Mario’s consent, who made it clear that he had “more than a month without playing anything from Epic Games.” This smelled of scorch. And just a day later he received an email from a certain Barsuchiy Niktar.

When you discover the cake. You have to laugh

The mail was in Russian, Polish, Ukrainian … I don’t know. Some eastern language that I don’t know. So I thought: “? bah, typical email to catch passwords or that they donate an estate of $ 1,000,000 to me because the husband dies of cancer” pic.twitter.com/DxPVEqNnSI

– merinowski (@merinowski_) August 16, 2020

That person, who did not seem like the typical bot considering the name of his account and the domain of the registered mail, contacted Mario to demand the new password, surprised that he had bought it from a Russian page (epicgames.su, like explained in a later conversation) by the paltry amount of 259 rubles (2.99 euros) and without being able to access the account.

The reason? When Mario smelled the cake, after the notice of his colleagues, he entered the Epic Games website to give “I forgot my password” so that another could be generated and that it reached his own email, to change it later and activate the password again. two-step authentication. And we insist, it was already activated in the first instance.

Hence, this barsuchiy niktar, after having bought Mario’s account on a Russian website, could not access said account because he had a different password. And that is why he demanded Mario himself to tell him what the new password was because “he had just sold the account and it is unfair” that he could not play Fortnite with his new account, for something paid to have a hundred skins.

The conversation continued, Google Translator through, in an ironically civilized way, but between Mario’s disbelief at such a surreal situation, explaining to Barsuchiy Niktar that he had bought his account illegally, urging him to contact the aforementioned website Russian in case they returned the amount of your purchase. Because even barsuchiy niktar begged him to give him the password because he was “very fond” of said page. But not even with those, of course.

In the end everything was a scare for Mario, but it reminds us again of the need for security measures to be strengthened, even if we have two-step authentication activated. And no 123456, please.

Tags account, Epic, euros, Games, hacked, Russian, sold, website, Yesterday