Vancouver healthcare technology company Cortico has launched a free, open benchmark designed to measure whether artificial intelligence models can safely support clinical decisions—not merely pass medical exams.
Called MedSafe-Dx, the benchmark evaluates how large language models respond when a patient...
A company based out of Coquitlam is aiming to combine the convenience of meal-kit delivery with the affordability of grocery store pricing.
Satiafy promises that, after a couple minutes of initial setup, everything after is “automatic” (except for the whole...
Innovation UBC is accepting applications for the spring 2027 cohort of Venture Founder, its flagship entrepreneurship program for UBC researchers, innovators and students ready to turn discoveries and ideas into new ventures.
The 16-week program provides participants with practical training,...
A woman in a Bangkok co-working space reached past my elbow last week to get her own laptop bag off the floor, and apologised. Then she apologised for apologising. I watched the second one land and thought, there it...
My father kept a spare tie in the glovebox of his car. Not for weddings. For the possibility that someone, somewhere, might need him at short notice on a Sunday. He didn’t want to arrive looking like a man...
A partnership between the University of British Columbia, Rogers Communications and Mitacs is developing a new model for moving promising university research beyond the laboratory and into practical use.
At the centre of the collaboration is Operation EInsTein, a commercialization...
The federal government is investing in British Columbia.
Specifically, Canada unveiled $11 million for 10 organizations in Northern B.C. to help upgrade technology, upskill workers, and improve operations in the face of “global trade pressures.”
The funding hails from PacifiCan’s Regional...
New York City’s noise cameras logged almost 16,000 loud-vehicle events last year, but the programme meant to police the city’s illegally modified exhausts is running at less than half the size the law says it should be. Twelve microphone-equipped...
For many trades contractors, the workday does not end when the crew leaves the job site.
Quotes still need to be prepared, schedules updated, invoices checked and customer reports written—often using information scattered across emails, text messages, accounting platforms and...
The alarm on my phone is set for six. I have not heard it go off in about three years. Most mornings I drift up at ten to, lie there for a minute doing nothing useful, and get up...
