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Scores of wildfires are burning across the Western Canadian wilderness, with more than 2 million hectares of woodland currently burning. 1,400 soldiers have been called into Saskatchewan alone, to relieve the 600 exhausted firefighters that have been battling the province-wide blazes. While fatalities are rare in instances such as this, one firefighter in British Columbia has been killed.

The resulting community evacuations are on a historic scale: the Red Cross in Saskatchewan hasn’t seen an evacuation of this scale in their history, of which has involved over 10,000 people in 50 communities. The refugees have been scattered across Saskatchewan and Alberta, now housed in community and recreation centers across the two provinces.
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As part of the planned release of a new batch of declassified UFO documents by the British Ministry of Defense next March, eighteen files referring to the Rendlesham Forest incident in 1980 are expected to be included. UFO investigators are hoping that these papers will be the evidence needed to prove that contact between aliens and USAF personnel from the nearby Bentwaters AFB occurred during that incident.

These files have been the focus of a campaign by UFO researchers, headed by Lord Black of Brentwood, to have them declassified and released to the National Archives. They were slated to have been released in 2013, but the MoD delayed them, citing the need for further "additional processing requirements."
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United Airlines and the New York Stock Exchange have both announced that they have shut down operations due to computer problems. United shut down on Tuesday, and the FAA said at 9 a.m. yesterday that an automation problem had been resolved and that it had given the airline permission to begin flying again. Delays are continuing as the airline works to reconstruct its schedules.
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Quantum computing’s elusive promise has always been computing power that approaches the infinite, and machines that are not just as intelligent as human beings, but far smarter. But building a computer that takes advantage of quantum indeterminacy has been difficult–until now.

A Canadian startup company is currently marketing a viable quantum computer system, aimed at solving complex problems for researchers.
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