Thursday, July 12, 2018 at 8:02PM 
Apple just announced a $300 Million renewable energy fund in China to connect suppliers with renewable energy sources. Apple manufactures the majority of its products in China.
The fund will invest in and develop clean energy projects totaling more than 1 gigawatt of renewable energy in China, the equivalent of powering nearly 1 million homes.
Thursday, July 12, 2018 at 7:21PM 
After years of leaving its Notepad app on its own, Microsoft is giving the app a new lease on life. Some of the new features coming to Notepad include the ability to hold down the control key to zoom into text or use your mouse wheel to do that as well as wrap around find and replace. The app will also support extended line endings for both Unix/Linux and Macintosh. Its status bar will now be enabled by default in Notepad. You will also see display line and column numbers when word-wrap is enabled. Notepad is also getting Ctrl + Backspace support so you can delete a previous word in Notepad. You can even now look for words on Bing by right clicking on the word you want to look up. Performance improvements are also coming to large files. This update is coming later this year in an update codenamed Redstone 5.
Source: The Verge
Thursday, July 12, 2018 at 5:37PM 
Vehicles purchased on or before July 11 are eligible and still have 60 days to apply.
Ontario's new conservative government has shut down all incentives for electric vehicle charging stations according to the Ministry of Transportation. The timing of this comes just as the sales of EVs and hybrids are at an upswing with more models. The arrival of the more affordable Tesla Model 3 has generated a lot of sales but a lot of those buyers were counting on the provincial incentives to help defer the costs of their vehicles. This is a step back towards the adoption of EVs in Canada.
Thursday, July 12, 2018 at 1:32PM Adobe was looking for a way to showcase what Adobe XD could do, which is the company’s free UX/UI prototyping software, and an idea the company focused on was redesigning a few on-screen interfaces of Terminator 2. Adobe partnered with Territory Studios to bring this to life. The company is known for its design work for films like The Martian, Guardians of the Galaxy, Avengers: Infinity War, to name a few. The focus of the project was on the first-person heads-up display (HUD) used by Arnold Schwarzenegger’s T-800 and how it could be redesigned for this age.
Adobe licensed two specific frames to redesign, both featuring the red-tinted point of view the infamous killer robot. The redesigned frames feature tons of extra details. As Fast Company describes it, it’s like the Terminator got an HD upgrade. “This project definitely started to open up all kinds of new possibilities for XD,” said Talin Wadsworth, creative director and a founding team member of Adobe XD. “I started thinking about features that were really tailored to the work that Territory is doing—different features, different workflows, and maybe in the future more augmented reality prototyping, or virtual reality prototyping. It’s really shifted my perspective and what my hopes and dreams are for what XD can be in the future.” You can watch above the process of how this whole project came about.
