If I tell Siri anything that might conceivably have an address it always says, “I can help you if you turn on exact location.” Even if I reword it carefully I get the same response. I don’t want locations.
Why can’t I get a simple clear response to, “Give me the phone number and nothing else for Acme Grocery on Main St.”
Is there a setting that can fix this?
I just saw a news report that a con is putting stickers over the existing QR codes. You are directed to a site to pay. At least just reading the QR doesn’t complete the whole scam effort to rip you off, but you’ll need to pull off the sticker to get to the legitimate BikeShare QQcode. BikeShare is also warning about this. The scam is being used in other places as well.
It is midge season in Toronto, which means one might spot more and more clouds of the tiny, winged insects.There are more than 10,000 species of Chironomidae and there are nearly 800 that have been spotted in Canada, according to an entomologist at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM).
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“What we’re seeing now is big swarms of them that are emerging from the water because the midges are in the larval stage,” Antonia Guidotti, entomologist and collection technician in the Department of Natural History at the ROM, said in an interview with CTV News Toronto on Tuesday. These bugs tend to live at the bottom of the lake (or river), as that’s where they feed, eating the organic matter found there. “They’re really an important part of the food chain,” Guidotti said. “They are fed on by fish, by frogs, by other insects in the water and waterfowl.”Midges emerge from the water as adults and typically live short lives, at most a week. The swarms typically seen are male midges waiting for females to come along, Guidotti explained.
“It’s one species that emerges at a time and they try to synchronize when they emerge so that there’s other members of the same species that are also present,” Guidotti said. They are commonly found roaming near bodies of water, like Lake Ontario, but Guidotti says clouds of midges can still be spotted a few kilometres north.This time of year, from the end of April through the beginning of May, yields a “big emergence” of midges, Guidotti said. Depending on the species, hordes of midges will be spotted periodically.