Thursday, June 18, 2026

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In 1991, researchers at Cambridge’s Computer Lab pointed a grey-scale camera at the department coffee pot and streamed the image to their desktops, because...

Quentin Stafford-Fraser was working in the Trojan Room of Cambridge University’s old Computer Lab when he and a colleague rigged a grey-scale CCD camera, pointed it at the communal Krups coffee machine, and wired it through a video-capture card...

Innovation UBC Taps Ian Bell To Build Out Research Partnerships

Innovation UBC has appointed Ian Bell as Associate Director, Innovation Partnerships, adding more than 25 years of international experience in technology transfer, research commercialization, partnership development, and intellectual property strategy to the university’s innovation team. Bell officially stepped into the...

Telus to Power Fast Internet for Small Communities in Thompson-Okanagan

A collaboration between the federal government and the government of British Columbia continues to equip households throughout the province with reliable access to high-speed internet. “High-speed internet is essential infrastructure for people to learn, work, connect, access healthcare, and grow...

Why Sovereign AI Could Give Vancouver Fintech Its Biggest Competitive Edge

Talk to any fintech founder in Gastown or a mortgage tech innovator downtown, and the conversation always circles back to the same two headaches: the terrifying cost of running AI models at scale, and the endless regulatory red tape...

Electric trucking startup raises $5 million

Twenty electric prime movers will hit Australian roads faster than expected after a first-of-its-kind project secured a $5 million boost. New Energy Transport on Monday revealed it would deploy a heavy-duty electric truck fleet months earlier than planned following the...

The US government locking foreign users out of Claude’s Fable 5, explained

The move came in response to an “export control directive” from the US government prohibiting use of the models by anyone who is not a US national. Mythos is Anthropic’s most powerful, or “frontier”, model. When first announcing the model...

WA government launches $10 million investment fund as bureaucrats embrace AI

The fund will be used attract industry and university partnership opportunities to pilot and scale initiatives that offer productivity or service delivery benefits. WA science and innovation minister Stephen Dawson said it will be supported by a buying mechanism...

Norway’s sovereign wealth fund owns roughly 1.5% of every listed company on Earth, and the team deciding how it votes at 9,000 annual shareholder...

It is a Tuesday morning in Oslo, and a small team inside Norges Bank Investment Management is working through proxy ballots for forty-odd companies before lunch. A Japanese chemicals firm’s succession plan. A Brazilian director slate. A Texas oil...

Britain just convicted four protesters as terrorists without a terrorism trial

In a Bristol courtroom this month, a judge reached for a sentencing tool that had never before been applied to protest-related criminal damage in British legal history. Four Palestine Action activists, already convicted only of damaging Israeli-made military drones...

People who keep every birthday card, every postcard, and every note their kids ever wrote aren’t sentimental hoarders, they’re building physical evidence that they...

A 2019 study tracking 520 people in the Netherlands over six years found that participants high in nostalgia kept larger close social networks as they aged, while those low in nostalgia watched theirs shrink. The effect ran in one...
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Midjourney goes from generating cat images to full-body ultrasound scans

“A scan of an imaging phantom, segmented to validate how cleanly structures separate under controlled conditions.“ | Image: Midjourney...
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