National telecom agency promises to connect all Canadians, from Quebec to Yukon, to high-speed broadband

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Businessman Mark Cuban says he would take 100 billion of the government's proposed $1 trillion dollars in infrastructure investment and invest it in robotics. Cuban believes the U.S. is falling behind China in the robotics industry and that we really need to invest in R&D.

In 2015, researchers discovered 163 new species in the Greater Mekong subregion, an area in Asia that covers 1 million square miles. The area is under constant threat of industrial development, so many of its species are in danger of going extinct, which could hurt both the ecosystem and humans.