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Canada has agreed to drastically reduce its tariffs on imported Chinese EVs from 100 percent to 6.1 percent as part of a new deal between the two countries. In return, China will be reducing tariffs on Canadian canola seeds from 84 percent to about 15 percent. The move is a break from the United States, which maintains a 100 percent tariff on EVs from China, effectively banning them in the country. Mexico currently tariffs the vehicles at 50 percent after increasing its rate last year. Under the agreement, which Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney called "preliminary," Canada will allow up to 49,000 Chinese EVs into the country, with that number rising to 70,000 after five years. Until now the three major North American trading partners had been aligned in trying to protect their domestic electric vehicle manufacturing. Chinese EV companies benefit from state subsidies, and as such can often be priced at a far better value than domestic alternatives. Our relationship has progressed in recent months with China. It is more predictable and you see results coming from that, Carney said to reporters. A warmer relationship may be forming in response to the Trump administration's tariff policies, with China hoping that alienated nations may seek a better relationship with the Eastern power. As to concerns that cheaper electric vehicles from China could hurt the Canadian auto market, the prime minister was unconcerned, saying "its still in low, single-digit proportion of the size of the Canadian auto sector," Carney added, Canadians buy about 1.8 million autos a year. China remains Canadas second-largest trading partner after the United States.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/transportation/evs/canada-cuts-tariffs-on-chinese-evs-as-part-of-new-deal-174241990.html?src=rss
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X is still struggling with an outage that has intermittently taken the service offline and made it slow to load for much of the morning. According to Xs developer platform page, there is an ongoing incident related to streaming endpoints thats caused increased errors. The incident started at 7:39AM PT, according to the page.That roughly coincides with a spike in reports at Down Detector. The issues seems to be somewhat intermittent. At some points, Xs website has loaded partially and only shown older posts. At other times, the app and website have failed to load at all. As of 9:30AM PT, Xs Explore and trending pages were loading, but the following tab wasnt showing posts and instead suggested users find some people and topic to follow (as shown in the screenshot below). Posts aren't loading.XX didnt immediately respond to a request for comment on the outage. As TechCrunch notes, this is the second time this week that X has experienced significant issues. The service also went down for many users around the world on Tuesday.But while the current issues are widespread, it does seem that some posts are still managing to go through. Rival Bluesky, which earlier in the week changed its profile picture on X to its butterfly logo in a bikini, to took the opportunity to throw some shade. Bluesky changed its profile photo earlier in the week.XDevelopingThis article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/social-media/x-has-been-down-for-most-of-the-morning-171843527.html?src=rss
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We already knew something Ocarina of Time-related was coming from Nintendo and Lego in 2026, and now we know exactly what that set will look like. Weighing in at a surprisingly modest 1,003 pieces, the typically word salad-y Lego The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - The Final Battle is the second Lego Zelda set, following the 2,500-piece Great Deku Tree set in 2024. While the latter lets you choose between building either a Breath of the Wild or OoT-themed replica of the wise old guardian of the forest, the upcoming set is aimed squarely at fans of the series debut 3D outing. As you can probably guess from the name, its a brick-built tribute to Link and Princess Zeldas climactic battle with Ganondorf in the seminal Nintendo 64 game, in what remains of the castle. Inside the rubble are three recovery hearts. Its hard to see how this works without a video, but Lego says you can release Links nemesis by pressing a button that raises him from the debris. As well as the minifigures for Zelda and Link complete with his Master Sword and Hylian Shield you also get a suitably transparent Navi to display. And then theres the large poseable Ganon (the pig demon version of Ganondorf), which is probably the highlight of the whole set. Interestingly, the new Ocarina of Time set is the first high-profile Lego announcement since unveiling its new Smart Brick at CES, but it looks like well be playing with regular dumb Lego only here. Youll just have to do the final Hyrule-saving "Hyah!" yourself, I guess. Lego The Legend of Zelda : Ocarina of Time - The Final Battle is available to pre-order from today and will be available from March 1, priced at $130. This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/gaming/nintendo/the-latest-legend-of-zelda-lego-set-pays-tribute-to-ocarina-of-times-final-battle-172212137.html?src=rss
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