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If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. -- J.R.R. Tolkien
May 04, 2026
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☰ Spotify Canada
1=Ella Langley : Choosin' Texas
2=Noah Kahan : Doors
3=Justin Bieber : Beauty And A Beat
4=Olivia Rodrigo : drop dead
5=Dominic Fike : Babydoll
6=Justin Bieber : DAISIES
7+16Noah Kahan : Staying Still
8+3Olivia Dean : Man I Need
9-2Noah Kahan : Dashboard
10-2Noah Kahan : The Great Divide
11+3PinkPantheress : Stateside + Zara Larsson
12+4Ella Langley : Be Her
13=Bella Kay : iloveitiloveitiloveit
14+6Alex Warren : Ordinary
15-6Noah Kahan : End of August
16+3The Killers : Mr. Brightside
17-7Noah Kahan : American Cars
18-3Malcolm Todd : Earrings
19-7Noah Kahan : Porch Light
20+6Michael Jackson : Billie Jean
21-3Noah Kahan : Willing and Able
22-5Noah Kahan : Downfall
23+1Ella Langley : I Can't Love You Anymore
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☰ slashdot
- Roblox Blames Age-Verification Rollout for Lowered Growth. Stock Tumbles 22%
- NetHack 5.0 Released
- OpenAI Introduces AI-Generated Pets for Its Codex App
- AI Cameras are Being Deployed Across the Western US for Early Detection of Wildfires
- Carbon Pollution Is Making Food Less Nutritious, Risking the Health of Billions
☰ cbc sports
- Raptors eliminated from NBA playoffs after losing Game 7 to Cavaliers 114-102
- Habs hang on in Game 7, eliminate Lightning, move on to face Buffalo Sabres
- Maple Leafs hire Mats Sundin, former Coyotes GM John Chayka to lead front office
- Jerome Blake injured, Canada places 7th in men's 100m final at World Athletics Relays
- Summer McIntosh sizzles at Florida meet with pair of freestyle victories
☰ espn
- Cavs close out Raptors in 7 behind Allen's 22-19
- C's Brown says refs had 'agenda,' calls out Embiid...
- Pistons cap comeback with Game 7 rout of Magic
- Banchero unsure of Magic's makeup after collapse
- Avalanche overwhelm Wild in 9-6 Game 1 shootout
☰ global
- Toronto Raptors bounced from NBA playoffs
- NewsAlert: Cavaliers eliminate Raptors in Game 7
- Your May 2-4 checklist: Four outdoor maintenance jobs to tackle before the long weekend
- ‘Speedrun’ attempt at Vancouver’s Church of Scientology prompts police warning
- Hamilton man charged after allegedly shooting self in botched home invasion
☰ Ars Technica
- Research roundup: 6 cool science stories we almost missed
- Infrasound waves stop kitchen fires, but can they replace sprinklers?
- Study: AI models that consider user's feeling are more likely to make errors
- The RAMpocalypse has bought Microsoft valuable time in the fight against SteamOS
- Man dies covered in necrotic lesions after amoebas eat him alive
☰ nyt world
- Global Demand for Rare Earth Minerals Is Intensifying Criminal Threats in the Amazon Rainforest
- Crack Down? Close Ranks? U.S. Cartel Case Puts Mexican Leaders on the Spot.
- What to Know About Elections in West Bengal and Other Indian States
- How A.I. Is Transforming China’s Entertainment Industry
- ‘Wartime Relic’ Explodes Under Campfire in Austria, Injuring Five Children
☰ cbc
- Trump says operation will start Monday to help stranded ships leave Strait of Hormuz
- Suspected hantavirus outbreak on cruise ship kills 3, World Health Organization says
- Hundreds of youths descend on Vancouver's Scientology building as part of speedrunning trend
- Habs hang on in Game 7, eliminate Lightning, move on to face Buffalo Sabres
- Rudy Giuliani is hospitalized 'in critical but stable condition,' spokesperson says
☰ space
- A bright moon may dim the Eta Aquarid meteor shower made up of Halley's comet debris
- NASA Laser Terminal enhances views during Artemis II mission
- A new way to plan trajectories to asteroids
- Under crushing hypergravity, fruit flies adapt—and recover
- European rocket puts Amazon internet satellites in orbit
☰ science daily
- Powerful AI finds 100+ hidden planets in NASA data including rare and extreme worlds
- Weight loss drug Ozempic linked to lower depression and anxiety risk
- Are your memories real? Physicists revisit the Boltzmann brain paradox
- Physicists just found a tiny flaw in time itself
- Alzheimer’s drugs may not work and could raise brain risks
☰ new scientist
- Why dinosaurs lived much more complex lives than we thought
- Is consciousness more fundamental to reality than quantum physics?
- Our verdict on Red Mars: Mostly great, with a few quibbles
- Ann Leckie continues to shine with new sci-fi novel Radiant Star
- 2026 will be the hottest year on record, leading scientist predicts
☰ science alert
- One Type of Exercise Can Give You Better Results With Less Effort, Expert Says
- Investigations Begin After Suspected Outbreak of Rare Hantavirus Kills 3 People
- A New Atlas Reveals Hidden Details of The Human Body Like Never Before
- Scientists Solve The Mystery of How The Twelve Apostles Formed
☰ Weather Forecast
Mon 4 May

high: 17°C
A few showers
 Tue 5 May

high: 16°C
Chance of showers
pop: 60%
 Wed 6 May

high: 14°C
Chance of showers
pop: 60%
 Thu 7 May

high: 13°C
A mix of sun and cloud
 Fri 8 May

high: 13°C
Chance of showers
pop: 30%
Mon 4 May

high: 19°C
Mainly sunny
 Tue 5 May

high: 14°C
Chance of showers
pop: 60%
 Wed 6 May

high: 12°C
Chance of showers
pop: 40%
 Thu 7 May

high: 10°C
A mix of sun and cloud
 Fri 8 May

high: 12°C
Chance of showers
pop: 30%
Mon 4 May

high: 17°C
A few showers
 Tue 5 May

high: 20°C
Showers
 Wed 6 May

high: 9°C
Periods of rain
 Thu 7 May

high: 14°C
Sunny
 Fri 8 May

high: 14°C
A mix of sun and cloud
Mon 4 May

high: 11°C
A few showers
 Tue 5 May

high: 16°C
Rain
 Wed 6 May

high: 8°C
Rain
 Thu 7 May

high: 13°C
A mix of sun and cloud
 Fri 8 May

high: 12°C
Chance of showers
pop: 40%
Mon 4 May

high: 13°C
Chance of showers
pop: 30%
 Tue 5 May

high: 22°C
Sunny
 Wed 6 May

high: 20°C
Showers
 Thu 7 May

high: 12°C
Showers
 Fri 8 May

high: 11°C
Chance of showers
pop: 60%
Mon 4 May

high: 11°C
A mix of sun and cloud
 Tue 5 May

high: 16°C
Showers
 Wed 6 May

high: 9°C
Rain
 Thu 7 May

high: 12°C
A mix of sun and cloud
 Fri 8 May

high: 9°C
A mix of sun and cloud
Mon 4 May

high: 22°C
Sunny
 Tue 5 May

high: 20°C
Sunny
 Wed 6 May

high: 18°C
Sunny
 Thu 7 May

high: 18°C
Sunny
 Fri 8 May

high: 19°C
A mix of sun and cloud
Mon 4 May

high: 12°C
Mainly cloudy
 Tue 5 May

high: 12°C
A mix of sun and cloud
 Wed 6 May

high: 21°C
Sunny
 Thu 7 May

high: 18°C
A mix of sun and cloud
 Fri 8 May

high: 22°C
A mix of sun and cloud
☰ Stocks ⚙
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DOW 49,499.27 -152.87   -0.31%
NASDAQ 27,710.36 +258.24   +0.94%
AAPL 280.10 +9.10   +3.36%
GOOG 383.30 +1.30   +0.34%
MSFT 414.46 +7.00   +1.72%
AMZN 268.35 +3.37   +1.27%
META 608.68 -3.37   -0.55%
NVDA 198.41 -1.12   -0.56%
TESLA 390.98 +9.46   +2.48%
NFLX 92.10 -1.50   -1.60%
AMD 360.44 +6.09   +1.72%
INTC 99.67 +5.21   +5.52%
QCOM 177.04 -2.58   -1.44%
NXP 295.31 +1.77   +0.60%
AVGO 421.15 +3.68   +0.88%
IBM 232.24 +1.20   +0.52%
CSCO 91.86 +0.37   +0.40%
ORCL 171.86 +10.68   +6.63%
CRM 183.76 +7.24   +4.10%
ADBE 250.75 +4.69   +1.91%
CIEN 535.39 +6.80   +1.29%
JPM 312.48 -0.84   -0.27%
BAC 53.23 -0.24   -0.45%
GS 923.71 -0.06   -0.01%
VISA 328.07 -1.99   -0.60%
MA 495.31 -7.89   -1.57%
WMT 131.60 -0.31   -0.24%
KO 78.58 -0.19   -0.24%
PEP 157.38 -1.10   -0.69%
DIS 103.11 -0.67   -0.65%
MCD 286.63 -6.95   -2.37%
NKE 44.42 +0.05   +0.12%
BA 227.42 -1.57   -0.69%
XOM 152.77 -1.68   -1.09%
CVX 190.60 -2.71   -1.40%
☰ Word of the Day
métier

noun (MET-yay)

Métier, sometimes styled metier, is a formal word that refers to something that a person does very well.

☰ Thought of the Day
"Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears." - Les Brown
☰ Born on this day
- Alexander Walewski, French earl and Foreign Minister, born in Walewice, Warsaw, Poland (d. 1868)
- Frederick Edwin Church, American romantic landscape painter (Hudson River Sch), born in Hartford, Connecticut (d. 1900)
- Howard Da Silva [Silverblatt], American actor (1776, The Lost Weekend, The Blue Dahlia), born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 1986)
- Curt Conway, American stage and screen actor (A Touch of the Poet; Casbah; Raw Deal; The Twilight Zone), and acting teacher, born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1974)
- Fausto Razzi, Italian composer, choral director, and educator, born in Rome (d. 2022)
- George Tupou V, King of Tonga (2006-2012), born in Tongatapu, Tonga (d. 2012)
- Giovanni Mirabassi, Italian-French jazz pianist (Avanti!), born in Perugia, Italy
- Shaenon K. Garrity, American webcomics writer and artist (creator of Narbonic), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
☰ Weather News
- Environmental Literacy Program awards portfolio
- Dolphin or porpoise? How to tell the difference
- Artemis II returns: How NOAA helped protect astronauts during the 10-day NASA mission
☰ Today in History
- John Gordon Cashman publishes the first edition of the "Vicksburg Evening Post" in Mississippi
- Battle of Coral Sea begins (1st naval battle fought solely in air) between Japanese, US and Australian navies and air forces
- First Grammy Awards: Perry Como and Ella Fitzgerald win major awards
- The Soviet government signs an agreement with Fiat to build an automobile factory in the Soviet Union
- 145th Kentucky Derby: stewards disqualify first-across-the-line Maximum Security for interference; longshot Country House declared winner; first DQ in race history for race infraction
- Gillian Tindall, British historian and novelist (The Fields Beneath, Fly Away Home), born in London (d. 2025)
- Zal Cleminson, Scottish guitarist (The Sensational Alex Harvey Band), born in Glasgow, Scotland
- Barrie Masters, British pub-rock singer (Eddie and the Hot Rods), born in Rochford, Essex, England (d. 2019)
- Mariano Pernía, Argentine soccer left back (11 caps Spain; Independiente, Recreativo, Getafe, Atlético Madrid), born in Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Manjural Islam Rana, Bangladeshi cricket all-rounder (6 Tests, 1 x 50, 5 wickets, BB 3/84; Khulna Division), born in Khulna, Bangladesh (d. 2007)

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