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A 2025 survey of over 1,000 US teens found 72% had tried AI companions and 52% used them regularly, but the detail that unsettled...

In 2025, a nationally representative survey of 1,060 US teens found that 72% had tried an AI companion at least once and 52% used one regularly. Buried inside those headline numbers is the detail that unsettled the researchers: a...

Researchers investigating how people recover after work identified four off-hours experiences that were linked to lower strain — detachment, relaxation, mastery and control

You finish work, you close the laptop, and you tell yourself the evening is yours. Then it’s one in the morning and you are still scrolling, still half-thinking about the thing you didn’t finish, and the day somehow ended...

A single standout trait — good looks, an impressive job title, the voice of authority — tends to bleed into how we judge everything...

Most of us think we judge people piece by piece. Her work is one thing, her warmth another, his honesty a third, and we weigh each separately like a careful juror. It is a flattering picture of how the mind...

‘Real-World Impact’ Lands Svante on Global List of Innovative Ideas

Fast Company released its 2026 list of world-changing ideas, and a clean energy innovator based out of British Columbia stands among them. Vancouver’s Svante Technologies is an integrated carbon management company founded in 2007 whose nano-engineered solid sorbent filter technology—which enables...

Sanctuary AI Evolves Model to Offer Software for Other Robotics Platforms

Sanctuary AI announced this week that it has achieved a new milestone toward deploying the Vancouver company’s proprietary Physical AI technology on existing and next-generation industrial robotic systems. Sanctuary says it achieved “world-class performance and innovation on a complex wire...

The people in their 60s who seem to have drifted from close friendships weren’t cold or indifferent — they were often the emotional anchor...

There is a particular person you meet in their sixties who seems to have ended up with fewer close friends than you would expect. Not friendless, exactly. But the standing dinners have thinned out, the group chats have gone...

Court-blocked: ASIC wins appeal against Block Earner over financial product regulation

The 7-0 ruling of the Full Bench ends four years of legal action and appeals, overturning last year’s decision by Full Federal Court, which previously found in favour of Web3 Ventures, the company behind the crypto platform. The wrangling involved...

GAMING: Release dates make a return, as GTA 6’s November debut haunts the industry

But there were a few differences this time around that perhaps only the keenest of observers may have noticed. For instance: did you pick that more games had a release date this time than at the previous Summer Game...

We tend to picture learning as something for the young, but a study of 416 Canadians over sixty found that those who kept taking...

Researchers at Brock University surveyed 416 Canadians aged sixty and over who were enrolled in general-interest courses, and what they found cuts against the way most of us think about later-life learning. The longer someone had stuck with a...

One question Gallup uses to gauge if people are engaged at work sounds too personal to belong – but it turns out to be...

The first time Gallup tested it, just 30% of employees said yes — and those who did turned out to be seven times as likely to be engaged at work. The question itself is Item 10 of Gallup’s Q12...
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News Wrap: Tropical Storm Arthur brings flooding threat

In our news wrap Wednesday, Tropical Storm Arthur formed along the Gulf Coast, becoming the first Atlantic storm of...
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