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For the first time in Jurassic World, humans actually interact with dinosaurs in the all-new game soon to be released by Montreal studio Behaviour. Jurassic World Primal Ops.

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Karim Benessaieh

Karim Benessaieh
The Press

Jurassic World Primal Ops

“It’s a bit of a junction between what we love about action-adventure games and Jurassic World”, explains Francis Elphick, creative director. In this free-to-download mobile game with in-app purchases, you have to save poor dinosaurs from unscrupulous mercenaries and collect the different species that will become weapons against these villains. “Dinosaurs are no longer our enemies, they are now everywhere on the planet and becoming our allies,” says Elphick. Designed in collaboration with Universal Games, the game is released alongside the new movie, Jurassic World: Domination.

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The first solution to limit the collection of location data is to go to Google Maps preferences, by clicking on your photo at the top right, then choosing “Your data in Maps”.

A letter signed by 42 elected US Democrats this week, asking Google to no longer collect data that could identify women who have had abortions, reminds us how this confidential information is too easily accessible. While waiting for Google’s response to this request, there are however known solutions for not disclosing your whereabouts. The first is to go to Google Maps preferences, clicking on your photo in the top right, then choosing “Your data in Maps”. But the collection of data, especially on an Android phone, is sprawling and affects half a dozen other functions. The PhoneAndroid site has an excellent guide on this subject.

Technovation


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Under the guise of an application to order pizza, Get Cheesy allows you to report an assault or request police assistance.

Reserved for teenage girls, the annual Technovation Montreal competition rewarded four applications in mid-May on themes such as women’s rights, anxiety and the environment. The winner in the juniors was the application Kram, which wants to counter the invasive use of Instagram between students with a more efficient organization of exchanges. The jury’s favorite is a brilliant application, Get Cheesy. It looks like an app for ordering pizza, but behind each menu choice hides an emergency message to report an assault, that you are being followed or that you need immediate help. police without further explanation. A $500 scholarship was awarded by Desjardins to each winning team.


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