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Strix and DIGITAL are working together to accelerate technological innovation in Canada.
Based out of Montreal, Strix is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting innovation and research in Canada’s aerospace industry.
Headquartered in Vancouver since launching in 2018, DIGITAL brings together...
The Canadian Food Innovation Network is awarding more than $700,000 to eight food-tech projects through its Innovation Booster Program, the organization revealed this month, matched by industry funds for a total investment of nearly $1 million.
This round of capital...
British Columbia’s artificial intelligence companies and innovators have another opportunity to take their technology to the national stage.
The AI Network of BC has opened applications for its second annual Team BC delegation to ALL IN, Canada’s largest AI and...
ACE KineticsOrbital Gearmotor: Integrated Motor-Drive System for High-Performance Robotics & SpaceACE Kinetics will develop an Orbital Gearmotor MVP – a novel integrated motor-and-gear system that directly embeds the motor concept within the gearing architecture. Targeting 5-10x performance gains over...
Called Rakurai, the counter-uncrewed aerial system (C-UAS) can disrupt multiple radio frequencies (RF) simultaneously, thanks to custom-designed chips and antennas that overcome the weight and power limitations of existing handheld systems.
As Ukraine’s response to Russia’s invasion demonstrated, drones are...
Kindness takes a moment but means the world is the sort of line that ends up printed on a tote bag, agreeable and weightless. What is worth noticing is that psychologists have spent the last few years measuring the...
There is a particular kind of older person who can look, from the outside, as though they have simply stopped caring.
They no longer explain every decision. They let a minor misunderstanding remain minor. They wear what they like, decline...
Some people can stop a rude exchange without raising their voice, delivering a clever comeback or pretending nothing happened. They name the problem, draw a line and leave the other person with nowhere useful to take the performance.
I used...
People whose age ends in nine are 48 percent more likely than everyone else to be running their first marathon. That’s a strange, specific thing for a birthday to predict, and it comes from a real study, not a...
