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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...

Après Equipment Puts Your Winter Gear on Beautiful Display with Air Dock

In Canada’s realm of seasonal extremes, wildfire season becomes to ski season faster than you can say “Pumpkin Spice Latte.” The country’s winter-obsessed have a new toy to test out this year: the Air Dock. No, it’s not from Apple. The...

Agility’s 284-pound Digit 5 runs for 90 minutes and recharges in nine, a 10-to-1 work-to-charge ratio the company says can deliver more than 20...

Correction, 1 October 2026: An earlier version miscounted the number of charge cycles in a 24-hour day and said early access was more than a year away. The idealised 90-to-9-minute ratio implies about 21.8 hours of runtime and 2.2...

CENGN Expands Living Lab Services with IP Support from Key B.C. Orgs

Canada’s Centre of Excellence in Next Generation Networks has added two organizations based in British Columbia as its latest members. New Ventures BC and Innovate BC have joined CENGN, immediately adding benefits to the Centre’s Living Lab Initiative. Designed to help...

$1M Tech Project Targets Power for Emergency Response Aircraft in BC

Two companies based in British Columbia are receiving provincial support to deploy technology aimed at strengthening backup power reliability for general aviation aircraft in the region. Up to $1 million through B.C.’s Integrated Marketplace is earmarked for Abbotsford-based Fast Air...

At 19, an Estonian borrowed €5,000 from his family and recruited Tallinn taxi drivers face-to-face for an app he had built because the city’s...

Markus Villig was 19 in 2013, fresh out of high school in Tallinn, and frustrated with how hard it was to get a reliable taxi in his own city. He borrowed €5,000 from his family to build a first...

A country of fewer than 1.4 million people has produced ten billion-dollar startups — about 7 for every million residents, more than three times...

Estonia’s population stood at 1,360,745 at the start of 2026, according to Statistics Estonia. That is smaller than many single cities. Out of it has come ten companies that reached a billion-dollar valuation at some point in their history,...

In 2008 a woman in Vilnius was moving flat with more clothes than would fit, so a friend built her a website to swap...

Milda Mitkutė was changing apartments in Vilnius in 2008 and had more clothes than the new place could hold. Rather than throw them out, she wanted a way to pass them on to people she knew. A friend, the...

Research suggests the brain doesn’t process scrolling through a feed like settling into a book — the constant change repeatedly asks attention to reset...

An hour disappears into the phone and the honest inventory afterwards runs to three items: a man cutting marble, somebody’s strong opinion about interest rates, a dog on a skateboard. None of it is retained in any way worth having....
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