The pattern is familiar to anyone who has watched a layoff round move through a company. Someone gets the news in a glass-walled conference room, nods, shakes a hand, walks back to their desk, packs a box with the...
Fusion startup Xcimer Energy reportedly activated its Phoenix laser system in Denver, claiming the title of the world’s largest privately owned laser. The 38-metre-long machine is described as a deliberate step toward a commercial fusion power plant the company...
One World Lithium is developing proprietary extraction technologies and pursuing strategic partnerships to commercialize lower-impact, scalable production from brines and clay slurries.
Unlike traditional methods that tend to produce intermediates requiring additional downstream chemical processing, the Canadian firm’s objective is...
UBC’s HATCH Venture Builder is celebrating the graduation of six research-based startups, highlighting the depth and diversity of venture creation emerging from the university’s innovation ecosystem.
The accelerator, which supports established UBC research-based spin-off companies, celebrated the graduating ventures on...
Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC), a superconducting quantum hardware spinout from Oxford University, has closed a £260 million Series C. It is the largest private quantum computing round ever raised in Europe, according to Tech.eu. The round was led by...
A tardigrade dropped into liquid helium at -272°C, boiled in a beaker, irradiated with a dose that would kill a human a thousand times over, or exposed to the raw vacuum of low Earth orbit will, in most cases,...
Barcelona’s Factorial just closed a $150 million Series D at a $2.5 billion valuation, led by General Catalyst with participation from Atomico and Four Rivers. Sitting next to that equity cheque is a separate commitment of up to $540...
Open someone’s laptop on a Tuesday evening and you can sometimes catch the ritual. A tab for Notion, a tab for Todoist, the calendar app pinned. They are not doing work, exactly. They are tidying. A task gets dragged...
Somewhere a kilometer below the surface of the North Atlantic, in water just above freezing, a shark drifts. A copepod hangs from its cornea like a ragged streamer. The eye behind that fouled lens is still working, more or...
As the world arrives in Vancouver for seven FIFA World Cup 2026 matches this summer, British Columbia is preparing to turn global attention into economic opportunity.
BC Tech is partnering with the Government of British Columbia to help promote trade,...
