Monday, September 7, 2026

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Psychology says adults who habitually slouch aren’t always just careless about their posture — under stress and social threat, the body can instinctively fold...

“Sit up straight” might be the least useful instruction in the English language. It frames a slouch as a discipline problem, solvable by nagging. Sometimes that is exactly what it is. Plenty of people fold forward because the chair...

Expert360 founder and early investors miss out in $16 million exit

As first reported by Capital Brief, Expert360, which connects companies and startups to consultants, board advisors, and fractional executives, is being acquired by AI job-matching platform Swipejobs. The deal values Expert360 at $16 million, according to media reports. Expert360 had raised...

Women’s health founders are heading overseas because local investors don’t prioritise them

Just 2% of all tech startup capital in Australia in 2025 went to all-female founded teams, according to the State of Australian Startup Funding report. Female health tech innovators came together in Sydney on Tuesday for a health summit, where...

Not all who wander are lost: the psychology behind why the scenic route is often the wiser one

Not all who wander are lost, Tolkien wrote, in a verse about a king travelling in disguise, and the line has since become a favourite of everyone who has ever taken the scenic route through life and been asked,...

UBC Surpasses 300 Spin-Off Companies with Latest Cohort

The University of British Columbia has crossed a major commercialization milestone, officially launching its 302nd spin-off company following the addition of 15 new ventures in 2026. According to Innovation UBC, companies created around UBC research have collectively raised more than...

Matching Your AI Bill To Your AI Value

A finance team member opens the latest AI invoice and sees the same thing as last month: another, even bigger overage. Perhaps that is to be expected given that the company is going all-in on using AI tools. Now,...

Metavista3D Secures $6M to Commercialize Next-Gen Visual Immersion Tech

In January, Metavista3D showcased spatial display innovations at the popular annual Consumer Electronics Show. For the Vancouver-based company, which specializes in glasses-free pseudo-holographic 3D display technology featuring movement tracking and real-time AI-powered 2D-to-3D content conversion, the event was “highly successful.” The...

Vancouver’s Mundo Raises $20M to Help AI Perceive the Real World

Vancouver artificial intelligence startup Mundo has raised a $20 million Series A round to build the data and evaluation infrastructure needed for AI systems to better understand real-world sensory experiences. The financing was led by GreatPoint Ventures, with participation from...

Psychology says people who get anxious when a text goes unanswered for too long aren’t simply afraid of being ignored — they’re often reacting...

My phone is face down on the table, which is the lie I tell myself about being present. I sent a message two hours ago. Nothing since. I have picked the phone up four times, and each time I framed...

Psychology says people who avoid eye contact in conversation aren’t necessarily aloof or disengaged — looking away can reduce the cognitive and emotional load...

A candidate in a job interview looked at the ceiling for four seconds before answering a question about her biggest professional failure. Two of the three people on the panel wrote something down. Afterwards, one of them described her...
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A new study suggests the person who left your message unanswered tends to feel worse about it than you imagine, and worse still when...

“What do you think of this?” That is the last message in one version of an experiment funded by the...
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