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An Alabama man is accused of helping to break into the SEC's account on X, allowing hackers to prematurely announce the approval of long-awaited bitcoin exchange-traded funds.
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Municipalities in Newfoundland and Labrador are taking action against radon, an invisible radioactive gas that causes lung cancer. In Conception Bay South, 30 per cent of homes tested had high levels of radon. Now municipalities are encouraging homeowners get a radon test kit.
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A massive space rock, estimated to be the size of four Mount Everests, slammed into Earth more than 3 billion years ago — and the impact could have been unexpectedly beneficial for the earliest forms of life on our planet, according to new research.
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SpaceX is leading the way in making space flight more affordable with their low cost reusable rockets.
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A federal judge on Friday delayed an order requiring Google to open up its Android app store to more competition until an appeals court decides whether to block the shake-up because of legal questions surrounding a jury's verdict that branded Google as an illegal monopolist.
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In the fight against cyber attackers, they reason AI can help just as much as it harms.
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A newly outfitted Canadian vessel loaded with fishery and coast guard officers has headed 12,000 nautical miles (22,200 kilometres) north to the Aleutian islands to patrol the North Pacific.
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A Newfoundland scientist known for identifying a gelatinous, rancid mass that washed up on the island's shores decades ago is hoping to get his hands on a slice of the strange white globs appearing on the province's beaches.
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The image of a sleepy Saskatchewan small town with 'not a lot going on' is a well-known anecdote. However, one Saskatchewan company is hoping to change that – and allow communities both on and off the beaten path to share their stories and advertise what they have to offer.
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The delay comes less than two weeks after U.S. District Judge James Donato issued a decision that would have forced Google to make sweeping changes to its Play Store for Androids.
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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration opened the probe on Thursday after the company reported four crashes when Teslas encountered sun glare, fog and airborne dust.
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Get ready to pull out your cameras: There's a geomagnetic storm underway and it could produce the northern lights across the country.
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The U.S. government's road safety agency is investigating Tesla's 'Full Self-Driving' system after getting reports of crashes in low-visibility conditions, including one that killed a pedestrian.
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One of the most widely spoken Indigenous languages in this country is now available through Google's translation service, the first time the tech giant has included a First Nations, Metis or Inuit language spoken in Canada on its platform.
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Already multitool smart devices, Apple Watches added another buzzworthy feature last month: an app to detect sleep apnea.
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A county in northwestern Alberta wants livestock producers to be compensated when coyotes prey on their animals, which would bring the province in line with the rest of Western Canada.
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Meta has launched a new campaign to protect teens and children from social media sextortion scams. It's designed to help teenagers and their parents easily spot online scammers, who trick young people into sending intimate photos and use financial blackmail, threatening exposure.
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Just weeks before the U.S. presidential election, TikTok approved advertisements that contained election disinformation even though it has a ban on political ads, according to a report published Thursday by the nonprofit Global Witness.
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The joint advisory released by the U.S., Canada and Australia says the actors have targeted the health-care, government, information technology, engineering and energy sectors.
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At the heart of the ancient city of Petra, Jordan, carved into pink sandstone cliffs, lies an elaborate monument known as the Khaznah, or the Treasury. And buried beneath that edifice, archeologists recently discovered, is a tomb with at least 12 human skeletons and artifacts that are estimated to be at least 2,000 years old.
ReadCBC - Technology (6 days ago)
Shane Gross of B.C. took home the top award in the annual Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition with his underwater photo of tadpoles, while 17-year-old Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas captured the top youth award a portrait of a two-millimetre-long insect.
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Turtles on Ottawa's Petrie Island face a host of challenges to their longevity. Here's an inside look at the pains taken to ensure the population thrives.
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Scientists in Brazil have announced the discovery of one of the world's oldest fossils believed to belong to an ancient reptile dating back some 237 million years that could help explain the rise of the dinosaurs.
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Christina Ernst of Chicago designed a functioning version of the rodent from the Pixar classic Ratatouille.
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Oysters are more than just a culinary delicacy. According to experts across Canada, they can also protect our coastlines and reduce climate change-related disaster risk.
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SpaceX on Sunday launched its fifth Starship test flight from Texas and returned the rocket's towering first-stage booster back to land for the first time, achieving a novel recovery method involving large metal arms.
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It was such an alarming breach that Langley Air Force Base officials cancelled their nighttime training missions and moved their F-22 jet fighters to another base.
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Expect to see more northern lights in unusual places as the sun continues to sizzle, space weather forecasters said Tuesday.
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As tech companies and scientists invest in technology that interacts with our brains, some experts say we're far from being able to map moods and thoughts in a meaningful way. Others, however, say brain data is the next frontier of privacy, and we need to pass laws to protect our brain data now.
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SpaceX is preparing once again to launch its 37-storey Starship as soon as Sunday, pending regulatory approval. And the big show will be the possible attempt at catching its booster back at the launch pad.
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One entomologist says the increase could be due to the amount of rain in the province. When it rains, mosquito and fly populations grow so spiders have more food sources.
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The British territory was allotted control of the .ai internet address in the 1990s. It was one of hundreds of obscure top-level domains assigned to individual countries and territories based on their names. Anguilla's earnings from web domain registration fees quadrupled last year to US$32 million.
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Hong Kong's oldest zoo is seeking answers in a monkey medical mystery after nine animals died in two days, including three members of a critically endangered species.
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Gary Ruvkun says microRNA, which are molecules that control how genes form our cells, could be the key to improving how humans fight diseases, and finding extraterrestrial signs of life.
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A NASA spacecraft rocketed away Monday on a quest to explore Jupiter's tantalizing moon Europa and reveal whether its vast hidden ocean might hold the keys to life.
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A so-called 'Moon Tree,' grown with seeds that were flown around the moon, was planted at a California school.
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Indian authorities are warning locals to be careful after a leopard was seen sauntering past a police station late last week.
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There's a new comet in the sky that has gained a lot of attention lately over its potential to become visible to the naked eye.
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NASA finally launched a spacecraft from Florida on Monday on a mission to examine whether Jupiter's moon, Europa, has conditions suitable to support life. The launch had been delayed a week due to Hurricane Milton.
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Indian authorities are warning locals to be careful after a leopard was seen sauntering past a police station late last week.
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As artificial intelligence continues to develop in seemingly all facets of life — including health care — experts say it's important for patients to know AI may be used in their care.
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The 15th-century explorer Christopher Columbus was a Sephardic Jew from Western Europe, Spanish scientists said on Saturday, after using DNA analysis to tackle a centuries-old mystery.
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Indian authorities are warning locals to be careful after a leopard was seen sauntering past a police station late last week.
ReadCTV - Sci-Tech (A week ago)
The 15th-century explorer Christopher Columbus was a Sephardic Jew from Western Europe, Spanish scientists said on Saturday, after using DNA analysis to tackle a centuries-old mystery.
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"Folks, this is a day for the engineering history books,” said SpaceX engineering manager Kate Tice.
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Another in a series of unusually strong solar storms hitting Earth produced stunning skies full of pinks, purples, greens and blues farther south than normal, including into parts of Germany, the United Kingdom, New England and New York City.
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SpaceX pulled off the boldest test flight yet of its enormous Starship rocket on Sunday, catching the returning booster back at the launch pad with mechanical arms.
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TikTok was aware that its design features are detrimental to its young users and that publicly touted tools aimed at limiting kids' time on the site were largely ineffective, according to internal documents and communications exposed in a lawsuit filed by the state of Kentucky.
ReadCBC - Technology (2 weeks ago)
What's as big as an alligator, with the body of a millipede, the head of a centipede and the eyestalks of a crab? That would be Arthropleura, believed to be the largest bug to ever exist. But fear not, it's been extinct for more 300 million years.
ReadCTV - Sci-Tech (2 weeks ago)
Rescue groups are busy each spring and fall when migrating birds fly into homes, small buildings and sometimes Chicago's skyscrapers and other hulking buildings. Chicago is a major migratory path in the U.S.
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New observations of Jupiter's Great Red Spot captured by the Hubble Space Telescope show that the 190-year-old storm wiggles like gelatin and shape-shifts like a squeezed stress ball.
ReadGlobal News - Technology (2 weeks ago)
Ecovacs robotic vacuums are quite easy to hack, according to cybersecurity researchers have been warning about the dangers for quite some time.
ReadCBC - Technology (2 weeks ago)
Concerns about air pollution in the area of southwestern Ontario dubbed Chemical Valley go back decades. And earlier this year, high benzene levels prompted Aamjiwnaang First Nation — which neighbours a petrochemical facility — to declare a state of emergency. Last week, some members of the First Nation left their homes due to an expected...
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Tesla's robotaxi, called the Cybercab, is an autonomous, shiny, two-seater vehicle with double gull-wing doors and no steering wheel or pedals.
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The northern lights could be visible across most of Canada this week.
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk unveiled on Thursday his vision of a 'a fun, exciting future,' an 'age of abundance' full of his company's self-driving cars without steering wheels, parking lots turned into parks and robots that will walk among the population – that he once again promised would be available within a few years.
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Tesla unveiled its long-awaited robotaxi at a Hollywood studio Thursday night, though fans of the electric vehicle maker will have to wait until at least 2026 before they are available.
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One reason why the current wave of AI research is so closely tied to the tech industry is that only a handful of corporations have the resources to build the most powerful AI systems.
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A new 3D scan has revealed previously unseen details of the wreck of Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton's HMS Endurance, which was found in 2022 – more than a century after the ship sank.
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Florida saw a record number of tornado warnings in a single day Wednesday. An expert says this phenomenon is not unheard of.
ReadGlobal News - Technology (2 weeks ago)
Elon Musk's X was blocked on Aug. 30 in the highly online country of 213 million people — and one of X's biggest markets.
ReadCTV - Sci-Tech (2 weeks ago)
Expectations are high for the long-awaited unveiling of Tesla's robotaxi at a Hollywood studio Thursday night. Too high for some analysts and investors.
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A severe solar storm is headed to Earth that could stress power grids even more as the U.S. deals with major back-to-back hurricanes, space weather forecasters said Wednesday.
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Federal prosecutors in Boston charged the four firms and their leaders and employees in a case that also involved charges of people overseas.
ReadGlobal News - Technology (2 weeks ago)
Those who enjoy the latest music on Spotify will see their cost go up in December as the company makes changes to their subscription plans.
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Three scientists who discovered powerful techniques to predict and even design novel proteins -- the building blocks of life -- were awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday. Their work used advanced technologies, including artificial intelligence, and holds the potential to transform how new drugs are made.
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As if the largest bug to ever live – a monster nearly nine feet long with as many as 64 legs – wasn't terrifying enough, scientists could only just imagine what the extinct beast's head looked like.
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As if the largest bug to ever live – a monster nearly nine feet long with as many as 64 legs – wasn't terrifying enough, scientists could only just imagine what the extinct beast's head looked like.
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Scientists Geoffrey Hinton from the University of Toronto and John Hopfield of Princeton University won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics for discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning within artificial neural networks, the award-giving body said on Tuesday.
ReadCTV - Sci-Tech (2 weeks ago)
The research that won Geoffrey Hinton a Nobel Prize for physics was the product of plenty of work carried out before artificial intelligence was the buzzword it is today.
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A device used by researchers with Fisheries and Oceans Canada appears to have been the victim of an attack by a great white shark 300 metres under water off the coast of Nova Scotia.
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The space rock is slinging toward Earth from the outer reaches of the solar system and will make its closest pass on Saturday. It should be visible through the end of October, clear skies permitting.
ReadCTV - Sci-Tech (2 weeks ago)
The research that won Geoffrey Hinton a Nobel Prize for physics was the product of plenty of work carried out before artificial intelligence was the buzzword it is today.
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The Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded Wednesday to three scientists for their breakthrough work predicting and even designing the structure of proteins, the building blocks of life.
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The Brazilian Supreme Court's Justice Alexandre de Moraes on Tuesday authorized the restoration of social media platform X´s service in Brazil, over a month after its nationwide shutdown, according to a statement posted on the court's website.
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Scientists David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, the award-giving body said on Wednesday, for work on the structure of proteins.
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A bipartisan group of 14 U.S. attorneys general from across the country filed lawsuits on Tuesday against TikTok, alleging that the platform has "addicted” young people and harmed their mental health.
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Geoffrey Hinton, the British Canadian computer scientist whose machine learning discoveries have proved so profound he's known as the 'godfather of AI,' has won the Nobel Prize in physics.
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T. haligoni, which is named after Halifax, is a type of bacteria known as a diazotroph. It has been identified in Bedford Basin.
ReadGlobal News - Technology (2 weeks ago)
The University of Toronto's Geoffrey Hinton was awarded the prize Tuesday morning, along with Princeton University researcher John Hopfield.
ReadCBC - Technology (2 weeks ago)
The federal government has released a proposed list of more than 30 chemicals and groups of substances Canadians encounter daily that it wants to prioritize for risk assessments.
ReadGlobal News - Technology (2 weeks ago)
The lawsuits filed separately 13 states and D.C. expand Chinese-owned TikTok's legal fight with U.S. regulators, and seek new financial penalties against the company.
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AI scribe technology holds the promise of removing some of that burden. However, uptake in Canada has been low due to privacy and cost concerns.
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Despite iffy weather conditions, the European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft blasted off to begin its two-year-long voyage to a double asteroid system beyond the orbit of Mars.
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The sun has produced two very strong solar flares and a resulting release of particles is heading our way, which could produce a great display of the northern lights.
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Two scientists won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine on Monday for their discovery of microRNA, tiny bits of genetic material that serve as on and off switches inside cells that help control what the cells do and when they do it.
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A spacecraft blasted off Monday to investigate the scene of a cosmic crash.
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The best minds in science will be thrust from academic obscurity into the spotlight this week when the Nobel Prizes in physics, chemistry, and physiology or medicine are announced. However, there is no shortage of Nobel-worthy discoveries: Here are five breakthroughs that haven't resulted in a life-changing call from Stockholm — at least not yet.
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The Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded Monday to Americans Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their discovery of microRNA, a fundamental principle governing how gene activity is regulated.
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In 2020, SpaceX agreed to work with the international astronomical community, which was facing research problems due to the brightness of the company's Starlink satellites. But the problems just keep mounting, frustrating astronomers.
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Fraudulent websites impersonating official businesses or services could creep up in online search results, leading users to view false information.
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Scientists announced on Thursday a milestone in neurobiological research with the mapping of the entire brain of an adult fruit fly, a feat that may provide insight into brains across the animal kingdom, including people.
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Alphabet's Google is testing showing check marks next to certain companies on its search results, a company spokesperson said on Friday, in a move aimed at helping users identify verified sources and steer clear of fake websites.
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For humans, flashing a smile is an easy way to avoid misunderstanding. And, according to a new study, bottlenose dolphins may use a similar tactic while playing with each other.
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Exactly 150 years ago, scientists first discovered that leaf-cutter ants were cultivating gardens of fungi inside their nests, feeding the fungi bits of leaves and in turn eating the tips of the fungal webs.
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Two male flamingos at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park recently started acting as if they were incubating an egg together, taking turns sitting on an empty nest. So staff gave them a real egg to hatch.
ReadCBC - Technology (3 weeks ago)
A census of endangered southern resident killer whales off the coast of British Columbia and Washington State shows the pods have lost three orcas, bringing the population to 73, excluding a new calf born after the survey.
ReadCTV - Sci-Tech (3 weeks ago)
A hacking group tied to Russian intelligence tried to worm its way into the systems of dozens of western think tanks, journalists and former military and intelligence officials, Microsoft and U.S. authorities said Thursday.
ReadCTV - Sci-Tech (3 weeks ago)
Google is pumping more artificial intelligence into its search engine.
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Playful large white beluga whales' happy chirps leap out in an environment and economy threatened by warming water that's melting sea ice, starving polar bears and changing the entire food chain.
ReadCTV - Sci-Tech (3 weeks ago)
It's tarantula mating season, when male spiders scurry out of their burrows in search of a mate, and hundreds of arachnophiles flock to the small farming town of La Junta, Colo. to watch them emerge in droves.
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Three years after the 30-year-old South Korean woman received a barrage of online fake images that depicted her nude, she is still being treated for trauma. She struggles to talk with men. Using a mobile phone brings back the nightmare.
ReadCTV - Sci-Tech (3 weeks ago)
Restaurant company SIR Corp. is investigating a cybersecurity incident that has impacted part of its information technology infrastructure.
ReadCTV - Sci-Tech (3 weeks ago)
Amazon Web Services' director of global artificial intelligence is encouraging Canada not to go it alone when it comes to regulating the technology.
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A medallion containing some of the original mould involved in the discovery of penicillin is expected to fetch up to US$50,000 when it goes up for auction later this month.
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A medallion containing some of the original mold involved in the discovery of penicillin is expected to fetch up to US$50,000 when it goes up for auction later this month.
ReadCBC - Technology (3 weeks ago)
The capsule rocketed toward orbit to fetch the test pilots whose Boeing spacecraft returned to Earth empty earlier this month because of safety concerns. The switch in rides left it to NASA's Nick Hague and Russia's Alexander Gorbunov to retrieve Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams.
ReadCTV - Sci-Tech (3 weeks ago)
The bracket for 2024's Fat Bear Week contest was revealed Tuesday night, but only after a deadly bear-on-bear attack at Alaska's Katmai National Park and Preserve on Monday delayed the unveiling.
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Archeologists in Denmark have unearthed more than 50 'exceptionally well preserved' skeletons in a large Viking-era burial ground in the east of the country.
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A new study by the scientist who discovered microplastics is looking back on 20 years of research and looking forward to what we need to solve the problem, once and for all.
ReadCBC - Technology (3 weeks ago)
Hurricane Helene poured a devastating deluge on the southeastern U.S. this past week, killing at least 130 people, leaving hundreds missing and causing record flooding and storm surges. Here's a look at just how bad it was — and a few reasons why.
ReadGlobal News - Technology (3 weeks ago)
Montreal fire officials are warning against charging your phone overnight after thousands of lithium ion batteries set a shipping container on fire.
ReadCBC - Technology (3 weeks ago)
It's far from typical for a camel to sport shoes around the yard, but then again, it's far from typical for a camel to be trotting around the United Kingdom. So when cobbler Stuart Moss got a call from a woman named Lady Chichester about making a shoe for a camel, he thought it was a prank.
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World leaders called superbugs, which are resistant to antibiotics, "an urgent global health threat" this week. Here's what patients and doctors say should change.
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A team from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada has been experimenting with adding kelp to cattle's diet in order to reduce methane from their burps.
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The skeletal remains of a crew member from Sir John Franklin's 1845 Northwest Passage expedition was identified in a joint study by researchers from the University of Waterloo and Lakehead University. They were found to belong to Capt. James Fitzjames, a senior officer on the HMS Erebus.
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The space rock — 2024 PT5 — was first spotted in August by astronomers at Complutense University of Madrid using a powerful telescope located in Sutherland, South Africa.
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A B.C. man stumbled upon a dino trackway last month by accident, and now he's pushing to preserve it through help from the local municipality and First Nations.
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The two astronauts stuck at the International Space Station since June welcomed their new ride home with Sunday's arrival of a SpaceX capsule.
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Large fires in the world's boreal forests flatten and blacken the ground, leaving it measurably warmer for more than a decade. However, a new study in the journal Nature shows this effect was not as pronounced in mixed forests, where broadleaf trees broke up the fires and helped heat dissipate.
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A new study about children trying valiantly to survive on crackers, air and your last wisp of gentle parenting suggests picky eating is largely explained by genetics — and the researchers say they hope the findings will help alleviate parental blame.
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Members of the Southern Georgian Bay OPP and the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre (CAFC) are sounding the alarm on a rising number of online and phone scams targeting residents.
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Canadian innovators and technical leaders gathered in Ottawa Thursday to demonstrate the latest cutting-edge technology.
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Trees haven't grown on the Falkland Islands for thousands of years. But tree trunks and branches preserved in peat suggest the islands were once home to a forest.
ReadCTV - Sci-Tech (3 weeks ago)
SpaceX launched a rescue mission for the two stuck astronauts at the International Space Station on Saturday, sending up a downsized crew to bring them home but not until next year.
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It's a dinosaur that roamed Alberta's badlands more than 70 million years ago, sporting a big, bumpy, bony head the size of a baby elephant.
ReadCTV - Sci-Tech (4 weeks ago)
For decades, video games have relied on scripted, stilted interactions with non-player characters to help shepherd gamers in their journeys. But as artificial intelligence technology improves, game studios are experimenting with generative AI to help build environments, assist game writers in crafting NPC dialogue and lend video games the...
ReadCBC - Technology (4 weeks ago)
A 3.8 magnitude earthquake was lightly felt in Victoria and Vancouver, Earthquakes Canada reports.
ReadCBC - Technology (4 weeks ago)
As the recovery continues in Jasper National Park after a devastating wildfire, researchers at Western University are looking into whether some of the damage was caused by another natural phenomenon: tornadoes.
ReadCTV - Sci-Tech (4 weeks ago)
A Canadian school photography company says it was hit by a ransomware attack that held about 3,500 photos of students in several Saskatchewan school divisions hostage, among others across the country.
ReadCTV - Sci-Tech (4 weeks ago)
Members of the Southern Georgian Bay OPP and the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre (CAFC) are sounding the alarm on a rising number of online and phone scams targeting residents.
ReadCBC - Technology (4 weeks ago)
The purported sighting caused a stir on St. Paul Island, a birding haven sometimes called the "Galapagos of the North" for its diversity of life. That's because stowaway rats can quickly populate and overrun remote islands, devastating bird populations.
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Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen feels 'extremely hopeful' about society's ability to push social media platforms into being safer but for change to come, she says these companies need to be motivated in a new way.
ReadCBC - Technology (4 weeks ago)
To some people, it may seem like kids are growing up faster than ever. But that's not the case, say researchers studying puberty in human remains from the Ice Age. They were able to determine that these humans went through puberty at the same age teenagers do today. They found this by studying the few known skeletons of long-dead adolescents. CBC's...
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The carbon fibre hull of the experimental submersible that imploded en route to the wreckage of the Titanic had imperfections dating to the manufacturing process and behaved differently after a loud bang was heard on one of the dives the year before the tragedy, an engineer with the National Transportation Safety Board said Wednesday.
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Since the provincial government announced it would assemble a pool of Albertans to act as "public wildlife management responders," permitting them to assist in selective hunts for "problem" elk and grizzly bears, about 7,000 people have applied for a spot.
ReadCTV - Sci-Tech (4 weeks ago)
For decades, video games have relied on scripted, stilted interactions with non-player characters to help shepherd gamers in their journeys. But as artificial intelligence technology improves, game studios are experimenting with generative AI to help build environments, assist game writers in crafting NPC dialogue and lend video games the...
ReadCBC - Technology (4 weeks ago)
Searching for polar bears where the Churchill River dumps into Canada's massive Hudson Bay, biologist Geoff York scans a region that's on a low-fat, low-ice diet because of climate change. And it's getting lower on polar bears.
ReadCBC - Technology (4 weeks ago)
Despite their reputation as loners, it turns out octopuses will happily hunt in groups with other species — as long as everyone knows who's boss.
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OpenAI Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati — who has been instrumental in the development of ChatGPT and the artificial intelligence image generator Dall-E — said Wednesday she is leaving the company.
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An executive at cybersecurity company CrowdStrike apologized in testimony to Congress for sparking a global technology outage over the summer.
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More than a third of children around the world were nearsighted in 2023, and this proportion will rise to almost 40 per cent in 2050, according to new research.
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A team at the University of Waterloo are developing a process to 3D-print bones, which could dramatically improve the quality of life for cancer and trauma patients.
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Questions are being raised over the use of body cameras on security guards in stores as a way to combat crime.
ReadCTV - Sci-Tech (4 weeks ago)
The smoke over the Port of Montreal has dissipated, but the fire in a container filled with 15,000 kilograms of lithium batteries prompted firefighters to issue a warning about how common these incidents have become.
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Astronomers have observed a massive pair of jets releasing from a supermassive black hole 7.5 billion light-years from Earth. The megastructure spans 23 million light-years in length, making these black hole jets the largest ever seen, according to new research.
ReadGlobal News - Technology (4 weeks ago)
The move marks the latest crackdown on China's EV industry by the Biden administration and would effectively bar all Chinese cars from entering the U.S. market.
ReadCBC - Technology (4 weeks ago)
OceanGate co-founder says he hopes submersible tragedy yields renewed interest in exploration
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Toronto conservation photographer Patricia Homonylo won the 2024 Bird Photographer of the Year award for a "beautiful and tragic" image that shows the massive scale of deadly bird-window collisions in the city.
ReadCBC - Technology (4 weeks ago)
A microscopic parasite that has the potential to wipe out entire populations of fish has made its way to B.C. Scientists are concerned because once whirling disease is present in an ecosystem, it's nearly impossible to get rid of.
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Scientists have discovered a new species of ghost shark that lives in deep ocean waters near Australia and New Zealand.
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A Soyuz capsule carrying two Russians and one American from the International Space Station landed Monday in Kazakhstan, ending a record-breaking stay for the Russian pair.
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Five bison died after two separate vehicles hit them in a national park east of Edmonton early Thursday morning, Parks Canada officials say.
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A new analysis of dozens of arrowheads is helping researchers piece together a clearer portrait of the warriors who clashed on Europe's oldest known battlefield 3,250 years ago.
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Scientists at UBC are trying to take the 'forever' out of some forever chemicals by developing a new treatment that removes harmful PFAS substances from drinking water.
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Finally, an emoji to represent us all is coming soon: An exhausted face with bags under its eyes.
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Ontario's Minister of Sport, Neil Lumsden, will donate his brain to research.
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