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August 18, 2026
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☰ Top Movies
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84Toy Story 5$475,595,965
93One Night Only$9,863,925
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☰ Spotify Canada
1=Ella Langley : Choosin' Texas
2=STELLA LEFTY : Boston
3=Drake : Janice STFU
4=Tame Impala : Loser
5+1Ella Langley : Be Her
6+2Malcolm Todd : Earrings
7=Morgan Wallen : Been By Now
8-3Shakira : Dai Dai
9=Steve Lacy : oh yeah?
10+1The Killers : Mr. Brightside
11+2Ella Langley : weren't for the wind
12+2Temper City : Self Aware
13+2Ariana Grande : hate that i made you love me
14-2Olivia Dean : Man I Need
15+2Alex Warren : Ordinary
16+2Dominic Fike : Babydoll
17-1Shaboozey : A Bar Song (Tipsy)
18+1Fleetwood Mac : Dreams - 2001 Remaster
19-9Cameron Whitcomb : Kingdom of Fear
20+1The Goo Goo Dolls : Iris
21+1Olivia Rodrigo : stupid song
22-2KATSEYE : Animal
23+2Vance Joy : Riptide
☰ Standings
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☰ slashdot
- Sainsbury's Store Pauses Facial Recognition After False Shoplifting Claim
- Solar Power and Batteries Have Been Keeping Europe's Grid Stable
- 'Buy Now, Pay Later' Lenders Pitch Loans For Needs Like Electricity and Rent
- Supreme Court Rejects Verizon Bid For $47 Million Refund of FCC Fine
- Apple Wallet Driver's License Feature to Launch in Four More US States
☰ sportsnet
- NBA investigation into Clippers inches closer to finish line
- NBA refutes report it lacks evidence in Kawhi Leonard probe
- How sustainable is Blue Jays’ recent hot streak?
- American League wild-card roundup: 5 teams tied at 61 wins
- How Blue Jays used the trade deadline to reset for this season and next
☰ espn
- Which NFL teams are in the best shape for the next three seasons? 1-32 projections for 2027-29
- Jeanie contesting family's sale of stake in Lakers
- Source: WR Allen, 34, gets 1-year deal with Colts
- D-backs put Marte on restricted list after no-show
- PCA 1st since 2010 with leadoff, walk-off homers
☰ global
- B.C.’s provincial health officer to hold news conference amid wildfire smoke warnings
- Fewer people running for trustee in some of Ontario’s supervised school boards
- Manitoba beekeepers feeling sting of potential 50 per cent tariff
- Punished for dissent: top municipal officials speak out about working with Ford government
- Premier Ford met with Loblaw CEO 1 day after dismissing grocery pricing legislation
☰ Ars Technica
- As temperatures get hotter, pesticides are more dangerous to farmworkers
- Theban tomb reveals how Egyptian burial trends evolved in time
- US vaccination rates fall again as exemptions continue to rise, CDC data shows
- Former SpaceX engineers are building a robotic factory for making steel parts
- The Moon's shadow raced across the heart of Spain, and I was there to see it
☰ nyt world
- A Mother’s Quest to Rescue Her Son From Russian-Occupied Ukraine
- How Israel’s Financial Chokehold Is Stifling the West Bank Economy
- Chocó, Colombia, Faces Deeper Hardship After an Earthquake
- At Ex-Premier Zhu Rongji’s Funeral, China’s Past Shadows Its Present
- Six Years in Provence: An Ancient Castle and a Feud Over a Troublesome Bridge
☰ cbc
- 'Owners are afraid': New tariffs could cut sales in half for some Canadian businesses
- Hoekstra's missteps in Canada are mild compared to some of Trump's ambassadors
- Ambassador Bridge 'aggressively' pursued trucking clients amid Gordie Howe delay: industry rep
- Drug trafficker, associates convicted after investigation Winnipeg police feared was undermined by corrupt cop
- What the Churchill Falls deal means for Quebec – and the provincial election
☰ space
- The brightened night sky nobody actually wanted
- 'Starwashing': How space companies use the greenwashing playbook while causing environmental damage
- Constipation is common in astronauts—blood tests provide new answers
- Space travel doesn't affect the strength of heart muscle cells, study finds
- Skies darken as solar eclipse heads south from Arctic to Spain
☰ science daily
- Scientists turn DNA into a memory device that uses 100x less power
- The bacteria that make cheese taste so good may also benefit your gut
- Einstein’s biggest “mistake” came back — and changed cosmology forever
- Scientists reveal why walking gets so much harder with age
- Scientists may have finally proved that “empty” space isn’t really empty
☰ new scientist
- How to maximise the mental health benefits of your vacation
- Strange paraparticles could be reality’s missing ingredient
- Cloudy skies have slowed global warming – but that may be changing
- Hunter-gatherers introduced fish to a mountain lake 7000 years ago
- Using AI for creative pursuits? Moderation is key
☰ science alert
- A Molecule Found in Citrus Fruits Could Be a Secret Weapon to Rejuvenate The Liver
- The Quantum Internet Just Passed Its Toughest Real-World Test Yet – Over 38 Miles of Ordinary Cable
- Our Survival Might One Day Rely on Nuking a 'City Killer' Asteroid. Scientists Just Tested Whether It'll Work
- Review of Over 120 Trials Challenges The Advice to Always Finish Antibiotics
☰ Weather Forecast
Wed 19 Aug

high: 24°C
Chance of showers
pop: 60%
 Thu 20 Aug

high: 24°C
Chance of showers
pop: 30%
 Fri 21 Aug

high: 26°C
Sunny
 Sat 22 Aug

high: 25°C
Cloudy
 Sun 23 Aug

high: 22°C
Chance of showers
pop: 60%
Wed 19 Aug

high: 26°C
Chance of showers
pop: 60%
 Thu 20 Aug

high: 25°C
Sunny
 Fri 21 Aug

high: 28°C
Sunny
 Sat 22 Aug

high: 27°C
Chance of showers
pop: 40%
 Sun 23 Aug

high: 24°C
Chance of showers
pop: 60%
Wed 19 Aug

high: 22°C
A few showers
 Thu 20 Aug

high: 25°C
Sunny
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high: 26°C
Sunny
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high: 28°C
Sunny
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high: 21°C
Showers
Wed 19 Aug

high: 24°C
Chance of showers
pop: 60%
 Thu 20 Aug

high: 24°C
Sunny
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high: 23°C
Sunny
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high: 24°C
Sunny
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high: 19°C
Rain
Wed 19 Aug

high: 26°C
Chance of showers
pop: 30%
 Thu 20 Aug

high: 24°C
Chance of showers
pop: 30%
 Fri 21 Aug

high: 27°C
A mix of sun and cloud
 Sat 22 Aug

high: 27°C
A mix of sun and cloud
 Sun 23 Aug

high: 19°C
Showers
Wed 19 Aug

high: 21°C
Chance of showers
pop: 60%
 Thu 20 Aug

high: 21°C
Sunny
 Fri 21 Aug

high: 21°C
Sunny
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high: 21°C
Sunny
 Sun 23 Aug

high: 15°C
Periods of rain
Wed 19 Aug

high: 22°C
Mainly sunny
 Thu 20 Aug

high: 24°C
Sunny
 Fri 21 Aug

high: 25°C
A mix of sun and cloud
 Sat 22 Aug

high: 23°C
Chance of showers
pop: 60%
 Sun 23 Aug

high: 22°C
Cloudy
Wed 19 Aug

high: 26°C
Sunny
 Thu 20 Aug

high: 23°C
A mix of sun and cloud
 Fri 21 Aug

high: 25°C
Sunny
 Sat 22 Aug

high: 27°C
A mix of sun and cloud
 Sun 23 Aug

high: 25°C
A mix of sun and cloud
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MSFT 480.63 -14.58   -2.94%
AMZN 261.34 -1.30   -0.49%
META 568.91 -20.86   -3.54%
NVDA 225.05 -0.14   -0.06%
TESLA 339.34 -3.02   -0.88%
NFLX 76.04 -2.15   -2.74%
AMD 506.09 -8.40   -1.63%
INTC 103.48 +0.95   +0.92%
QCOM 162.18 -3.64   -2.20%
NXP 232.75 -1.83   -0.78%
AVGO 392.50 -0.56   -0.14%
IBM 228.86 -5.52   -2.36%
CSCO 112.92 +1.25   +1.12%
ORCL 146.68 -3.67   -2.44%
CRM 191.04 -5.15   -2.63%
ADBE 254.07 -9.95   -3.77%
CIEN 445.34 +16.76   +3.91%
JPM 361.17 -1.66   -0.46%
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XOM 161.52 +1.41   +0.88%
CVX 202.73 +2.70   +1.35%
☰ Word of the Day
hapchance

noun: 1. Luck or fortune. 2. An occurrence, especially a lucky one. verb intr.: To happen.
☰ Thought of the Day
"What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset." - Crowfoot, from Chicanos and Native Americans: the Territorial Minorities, 1973, p.70.
☰ Born on this day
- François, Marquis de Chasseloup-Laubat, French general and military engineer, born in Saint-Sornin, France (d. 1833)
- Willem Jan Frans Nuyens, Dutch physician and Roman Catholic historian, born in Avenhorn, Netherlands (d. 1894)
- Moura Lympany [Mary Johnstone], British concert pianist (OBE-1979), born in Saltash England (d. 2009)
- Marge Schott, American MLB owner (Cincinnati Reds), born in Cincinnati, Ohio (d. 2004)
- Louie Gohmert, American politician, born in Pittsburg, Texas
- Edith Frost, American psychedelic alt-country singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, born in San Antonio, Texas
- Sarita Choudhury, English actress (And Just Like That...), born in London, England
- Lee Seung-yeon, South Korean actress (The Secret House, 3-Iron), born in Seoul, South Korea
☰ Weather News
- NOAA Announces 2026 Small Business of the Year Award Recipient
- Madeline Yarkin
- David Winchester
☰ Today in History
- England regains Ashes with fifth Test cricket win to take series 1-0
- James E. Wilkins is the first Black person to attend a US cabinet meeting
- Fidel Castro delivers a speech on Radio Rebelde, the clandestine station founded by Che Guevara to broadcast news and revolutionary messages from the Sierra Maestra mountains
- Six people are killed by a bomb blast on a bus in West Bengal, India
- Leaders from across Europe join Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at a hastily arranged summit meeting with US President Trump at the White House
- Orestes Quércia, Brazilian politician (Governor of São Paulo, 1987-91), born in Pedregulho, Brazil (d. 2010)
- Molly Bee, American actress (Pinky Lee Show), born in Oklahoma City (d. 2009)
- Gustavo Charif, Argentine artist, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Mark Robinson, American politician, 2024 North Carolina nominee for Governor, born in Greensboro, North Carolina
- Clarence Benford, American football tight end (Seattle Seahawks), born in Windsor Forest, Georgia

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