Wednesday, November 11, 2026

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Photonic Proposes Ambitious $500M Semiconductor Facility in Canada

Photonic has unveiled intentions to establish a multi-tenant semiconductor manufacturing facility in Canada. The Vancouver-based company has raised nearly $500 million in venture capital to develop commercial-scale quantum computers and quantum networks using its proprietary Entanglement First architecture. Entanglement First architecture...

In September 2026, University of Utah scientists using TROPOMI saw Western US forest fluorescence fade two years before bark-beetle mortality showed in aerial surveys.

A satellite instrument built to track air pollution has turned out to be a useful early-warning sensor for dying forests. In work covered on 13 September 2026 by Scienmag and published earlier that month by the University of Utah,...

Quote of the day from Stoic philosopher Epictetus: “Men are disturbed, not by things, but by the principles and notions which they form concerning...

A man cut me off in traffic last week, and I spent the next twenty minutes building a psychological profile of someone I had seen for roughly one second. He was selfish. He had probably always been selfish. Somewhere,...

Psychology suggests adults who frequently use emojis when they text often aren’t simply more playful — they may be unusually sensitive to the emotional...

Some people can’t send a three-word text without decorating it. “Running late 😬”. “Sounds good 🙌”. “Sorry about earlier 🥲”. It reads as padding, or as someone who never quite left school. The research points somewhere else. Frequent emoji use...

SiteHive named Startup of the Year at the 2026 Best in Tech Awards

The Sydney-based company was named Startup of the Year at the annual gala event in Sydney on September 10, standing out in a stacked category that included sustainable textile manufacturer Xefco, quantum sensing startup Nomad Atomics and telehealth platform...

Why some people become quieter as they move through their 60s and 70s

Somewhere in the mid-sixties, a lot of people go quiet at the dinner table. They still turn up. They still laugh in the right places. But the long arguments about politics, or about who was actually right about the...

Heidi, SiteHive, The Laundry Lady, and UNSW Founders among 15 winners at the Startup Daily Best in Tech Awards 2026

The sold out awards dinner with 220 guests heard from entrepreneur turned federal MP Allegra Spender who discussed risk and purpose in building startups in Australia. “Startups are about two things – it’s taking a big risk, and that’s a...

Research suggests adults who were criticized for tiny mistakes as children often struggle to relax even when life is going well — part of...

Sunday afternoon, about four. Rent paid. Nobody sick. My dog asleep across one foot, in a patch of sun it took him twenty minutes to locate and claim. And there I was, running the audit. What have I forgotten. Who...

Psychology says adults who don’t truly know their worth will often accept far less than they deserve — because asking for more feels difficult...

Someone asks what you charge. There is a pause. Then a number leaves your mouth that is about thirty percent below the one you rehearsed in the shower, and you hear yourself adding that the rate is flexible before...

Psychology says people who were never celebrated themselves often find it difficult to celebrate others, not because they want you to fail, but because...

A thumbs-up emoji turns up four hours late at the bottom of a group chat that has already moved on. Someone announced a promotion that morning. Everybody else piled in with exclamation marks and offers of drinks, and one...
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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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