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7 startups share $15.6 million in the latest round of government-backed dementia research grants

The solutions in the second round of CUREator+ Dementia & Cognitive Decline grants, backed by government’s Medical Research Future Fund, range from gene editing for childhood dementia to tools for earlier detection. The program supports early-stage therapies, diagnostics, medical devices,...

GAMING: Indies in the classroom? Ludolio’s bid to reshape education with videogames

We were drafting poetry, and I pulled out and played with a line I heard in a near-end-game section of Final Fantasy X. “Will humanity ever attain such purity?” Lady Yunalesca asks the party, invoking an existential debate on...

Hiive Rebrands as Clarity to Expand Private-Market Ambitions

Vancouver fintech Hiive has rebranded as Clarity, reflecting its evolution from a marketplace for secondary transactions into a broader financial services platform for private companies and investors. The new brand arrives alongside an expanded platform designed to address the fragmented...

Researchers tracked the passwords 154 people used online for an average of 147 days and found them logging into 26 websites with fewer than...

For about five months, a browser extension sat quietly on the home computers of 154 people and watched them log in. The researchers never saw a password. Everything was hashed on the machine before it went anywhere, leaving them with...

A telemarketer refused to keep his webcam on for nine hours a day while working from home and was fired the next day —...

A camera that stayed switched off cost a Florida software company about 75,000 euros. It belonged to a telemarketer working from the small Dutch town of Diessen, employed since January 2019 by Chetu, an American software firm that at the...

Innovation UBC Invites Venture Community to Fall Social

Innovation UBC is bringing together researchers, entrepreneurs and ecosystem partners for a fall social at the University of British Columbia next month. The Innovation UBC Community Fall Social will take place on Thursday, October 8, from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30...

Lumicent Launches AI Platform to Turn Industrial Risk Into Action

Vancouver-based Lumicent has launched a decision intelligence platform designed to help industrial organizations identify emerging asset risks, understand their potential consequences and determine where action is needed most. Formerly known as CoGo, the company says its new name reflects an...

Dream Photonics Wins 2026 New Ventures BC Competition

Vancouver-based Dream Photonics has been crowned the winner of the 2026 New Ventures BC Competition, taking home the $110,000 Innovate BC First Place Prize. The UBC spinout is developing a platform that uses 3D-printed micro-lenses to automate the assembly of...

Loneliness and dementia: how technology can help

The result is not merely digital exclusion, it can be social isolation at precisely the time connection can be most important. This is Dementia Action Week (September 21–27 ), so it is worth asking how technology can help people living...

AI data centre startup Firmus gears up to raise $7 billion for an ASX IPO next month

Institutional bidding runs October 6–7, with a prospectus due October 8 and retail subscriptions opening October 12–19. An option to issue additional shares could lift proceeds to US$5.5bn (A$7.7bn). The infrastructure builder, similar NextDC, and AirTrunk, which sold two years...
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Jeffries outlines priorities as Dems prepare to take power

With Congress back this week, Republicans and Democrats alike are wasting no time preparing for the new session that...
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