Published: April 9th, 2021
Chip shortages are hurting auto manufacturers, Facebook isn’t going to notify the half a billion users whose data got leaked, and Verizon issues a recall for its hotspot devices due to a fire hazard.
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General Motors is the latest auto manufacturer to sound the alarm bells over the global semiconductor chip shortage. CNBC is reporting that GM is halting production at its plants in Tennessee, Michigan and Mexico later this month and expecting other plant shutdowns in Kansas and Canada through mid-May. Ford made a similar announcement last week, noting impacted plants are in Illinois, Ohio, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri and Ontario, Canada. Didn’t think that chip shortage was going to a big deal? Think again.
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Published: March 15th, 2021
Amazon says no to a Pickering warehouse opening while appealing orders to close a Brampton location due to a COVID-19 outbreak, and Google is accused of tracking users in ‘Incognito’ mode
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CBC is reporting that Amazon has decided to not put the largest retail warehouse in Canada on a protected wetland site in Pickering. The deadline for the Toronto Region Conservation Authority to grant permission to the property owner, the Triple Group of Companies, to begin destroying the wetland was Friday. It is not yet clear how Amazon’s withdrawal from the proposal will affect the developer’s plans to build on the wetland. Pickering Mayor Dave Ryan issued a statement saying he’s “truly disappointed for Pickering and its residents,” adding the city has lost a “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity” to bring 2,0