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Peter Evans on Xtract One’s PNE Deployment and the Future of AI-Powered Physical Security

As Vancouver continues to build its reputation as a host city for major international events, the technology protecting attendees is becoming just as important as the events themselves. Toronto-based Xtract One Technologies recently announced that its AI-powered SmartGateway screening system...

AI advocates have a big problem with Gen Z’s opposition

He said he would embrace AI for storyboarding – the practice of creating a visual outline in the early stages of developing a movie or TV show. The announcement was met with significant online backlash and sentiments about how AI...

Finland, a country long invaded and overshadowed by its neighbors, built the most trusted education system in the world by doing almost the exact...

Finland did build one of the world’s most admired education systems around trust rather than constant inspection, competition and high-stakes testing. It did not, however, win an objective global title for the “most trusted education system.” No authoritative international...

Psychology suggests memory is not a recording but a story we rebuild each time: in one experiment, a quarter of people came to ‘remember’...

Picture a memory you are sure of. Not a fuzzy one, a solid one. Say a childhood scene where you got separated from your parents in a big shop, felt that cold drop in your stomach, and then a...

Chasing happiness can be the thing that scares it off: research suggests those who prize being happy above all else often end up lonelier...

What follows is reading and reflection on published psychology research, not advice. We are writers, not psychologists or therapists. The studies here are observational and experimental work on group averages, and a pattern across a sample is not a...

Psychology says one cruel remark can drown out many kind ones: across love, money, learning and memory, bad consistently hits harder than good —...

Give someone five compliments and one insult in the same afternoon, and the insult is what they carry home. This lopsidedness seems like a glitch in the wiring. It is not. It appears to be one of the more...

Vancouver Tech Days Brings Scale-Up Leaders Together for Two-Day Summit

Vancouver founders and tech execs will gather downtown later this month for Vancouver Tech Days, a new two-day summit focused on the practical lessons behind building and scaling successful companies. Taking place July 27 and 28 at And-Co on West...

GroundedAI Raises $2 Million to Modernize Underground Construction

Vancouver-based GroundedAI has raised $2 million to accelerate the expansion of its underground intelligence platform into the tunnelling sector. The financing round was led by Stand Up Ventures, with participation from SOSV, Accelia, BoxOne, The51, LOI VC, and other investors. GroundedAI...

Here’s what Albo’s ‘Office of AI’ means for Australian tech

In a major speech at the University of Sydney, Albanese declared that AI “is a bigger challenge and a bigger opportunity than social media”, and that Australia must move now to determine its “social licence” and capture the opportunities...

Meta backs down on letting its AI generator, Muse, steal Instagram images after privacy backlash

Late last week, the tech giant unveiled Muse, the first image generator developed by its Superintelligence Labs division. Muse will use the Spark large language model to reason through user prompts, search the internet and generate an image based on the...
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Trump Killed the Truth, the Left Must Now Bury It

Let’s begin with this question: Why is the social media platform that’s so obviously filled with lies called “Truth...
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