About Jeff Belanger
I'm a Canadian, I like to write, I like to play video games, watch movies and read books and all that. Also interested in current affairs and comic books as well.
A new company called Bubl has created the Bublcam, which is a 360 degree camera, and have reached their funding goal on the popular start-up website Kickstarter. The goal of their campaign was to raise $100,000 and if they met thi...
The Canadian government has not allowed Lenovo, a company which has it’s home in Beijing, to place a bid to buy Blackberry because they view it as a security risk, one of potentially national security level. The security con...
A boy who lives in the Notre-Dame-de-Grace suburb of Montreal has just pled guilty to hacking websites and costing about $60,000 worth of “damage”. In a story that sounds somewhat similar to the beginning of the old 90...
Tim Cook, Apple’s Chief Executive Office, wrote in the Wall Street Journal about how he was in favor of the US government passing an anti-discrimination bill that would target discrimination that takes place in the work plac...
Rockstar is set to give players, who experienced the first month of GTA Online and it’s many problems, $500,000. No, not real $500,000 — in game $500,000. GTA 5, which was released in late September, was a massive succ...
Yesterday at Minecon, Mojang, who developed the incredibly popular Minecraft, and Twich, announced that players will be able to now stream Minecraft while they play. Minecraft will join a plethora of other games, such as League of...
The PayPal 14, as they have come to be known, are a group of loosely connected people who are being charged after they (allegedly) participated in a protest against PayPal and others. They have recently been given a plea deal, but...
In this past quarter Nintendo has suffered an 8 billion yen loss ($81 million), almost negating the 8.6 billion yen profit from the previous quarter. Much of this can be attributed to the poor sales of it’s newest console, t...
If you thought that the social network giant that is Facebook knew too much about you already, then you probably won’t be happy about this latest development of Facebook looking to gather even more information about you. Des...
The US government has been the target of a media storm these past few weeks over their monitoring of other countries and their leaders. John Kerry, US Secretary of State and former presidential candidate, believes that the surveil...
As part of an initiative to move towards energy that is renewable and clean, a new solar power plant has been completed in central California. The project was started back in 2011 and built by SunPower in San Luis Obispo County, t...
American police have a new ally when it comes to high-speed chases, one that allows them to stop the chase, save some lives and damage, and still catch the suspect they are after. This comes in the form of a GPS bullet. The bullet...
Turkey has just created the first underwater connection between Asia and Europe, to be used by rail, with the completion of it’s Marmaray project. The link is 13km, or 8 miles, long and is 60 meters underneath the Bosphorus ...
A new study seeks to determine who you are in a romantic relationship with, even if you don’t state who it is, based on mutual Facebook friends data. The focus question of this study is, “given all the connections amon...
Rebekah Brooks, who used to work for News Corp as an executive, as well as some of her former colleagues on News of the World, are going to trial this week for the phone hacking scandal they were hit with a few years ago. The form...