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It's a Twitter user's worst nightmare: Wake up to find most of your followers gone. But that's exactly what will happen on Wednesday to the official presidential accounts on Twitter. No, not @realDonaldTrump -- he's already been banned for life. Source

Experts have uncovered the remains of a gigantic dinosaur in Argentina, and believe it could be one of the largest creatures to have ever walked the Earth. Paleontologists discovered the fossilized remains of a 98 million-year-old titanosaur in Neuquén Province in Argentina's northwest Patagonia, in thick, sedimentary deposits known as the Candeleros Formation. Source

SILVER SPRING, MD. -- General Motors is teaming up with Microsoft to accelerate its rollout of electric, self-driving cars. In the partnership announced Tuesday, the companies said Microsoft's Azure cloud and edge computing platform would be used to "commercialize its unique autonomous vehicle solutions at scale. Source

A British Columbia company that feeds food waste to insects to produce pet food has received $6 million from the federal government for a new plant just north of Calgary. Enterra Feed Corp. last year opened a 17,500-square-metre production facility, about the size of three football fields. Source

TORONTO -- Scientists say 2021 is expected to be a shorter year than normal with the Earth spinning at a faster rate than it has in the last 50 years. York University astronomy and physics professor Paul Delaney explained to CTV's Your Morning that as the Earth’s rotation speeds up, the shift means that time is slowing on the planet’s surface, making each day a "fraction of a second" shorter than 24 hours. Source

TORONTO -- Scientists say 2021 is expected to be a shorter year than normal with the Earth spinning at a faster rate than it has in the last 50 years. York University astronomy and physics professor Paul Delaney explained to CTV's Your Morning that as the Earth’s rotation speeds up, the shift means that time is slowing on the planet’s surface, making each day a "fraction of a second" shorter than 24 hours. Source

In most B.C. cities, cats can balance on bars and walk on wires without any municipal oversight. But some are looking at putting felines on a tighter leash. Richmond took the first step Monday of potentially regulating cats being outdoors, with a council committee endorsing a move to work with the SPCA and the Regional Animal Protection Society on new educational campaigns for owners. Source

Shaun Tobac loves to hunt. Between moose and caribou in the Sahtu region, Tobac takes what he needs for his own family and then provides meat for the elders in Fort Good Hope, N.W.T. But an unusually warm fall and winter has yielded a slow year for hunters and trappers in the N.W.T. Source

Shaun Tobac loves to hunt. Between moose and caribou in the Sahtu region, Tobac takes what he needs for his own family and then provides meat for the elders in Fort Good Hope, N.W.T. But an unusually warm fall and winter has yielded a slow year for hunters and trappers in the N.W.T. Source

For one Cape Breton teen, helping out his great-uncle has led to a blooming relationship with tech giant Google. A couple of years ago, Jack Mugridge's great-uncle started using some Google Home devices as part of a project launched by the company that allowed seniors to check in with someone and have daily interactions with people. Source