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BC-Built Lemonade Lab Turns The Lemonade Stand Into A Tap-To-Pay Business

The next time a kid in your neighbourhood sells lemonade, you may be able to tap your phone instead of digging for change. That is the idea behind Lemonade Lab, a free BC-built platform founded by Dean Horsfield that helps...

The art of staying human in an AI age

The cursor blinks. The research is open in nine tabs, the coffee has gone lukewarm, and I have read enough to write a competent summary of the thing. What I do not have, yet, is the angle. That is...

Here are Labor’s Budget tweaks on CGT after startup backlash

A budget backlash has prompted Labor to announce new carve-outs for innovative firms from the capital gains tax, as well as a backdown on a minimum tax on testamentary trusts. The existing 50% capital gains tax discount would be dropped...

Australia is the world’s fastest-growing venture ecosystem of the past decade 

The Australia Venture & Startup Report 2026 by Sydney VC Side Stage Ventures with Dealroom, Vercel, AWS and the Australian Investment Council looked at the past decade of the local VC-backed ecosystem. It’s now grown 13.7 times faster than...

A 2025 survey of over 1,000 US teens found 72% had tried AI companions and 52% used them regularly, but the detail that unsettled...

In 2025, a nationally representative survey of 1,060 US teens found that 72% had tried an AI companion at least once and 52% used one regularly. Buried inside those headline numbers is the detail that unsettled the researchers: a...

Researchers investigating how people recover after work identified four off-hours experiences that were linked to lower strain — detachment, relaxation, mastery and control

You finish work, you close the laptop, and you tell yourself the evening is yours. Then it’s one in the morning and you are still scrolling, still half-thinking about the thing you didn’t finish, and the day somehow ended...

A single standout trait — good looks, an impressive job title, the voice of authority — tends to bleed into how we judge everything...

Most of us think we judge people piece by piece. Her work is one thing, her warmth another, his honesty a third, and we weigh each separately like a careful juror. It is a flattering picture of how the mind...

‘Real-World Impact’ Lands Svante on Global List of Innovative Ideas

Fast Company released its 2026 list of world-changing ideas, and a clean energy innovator based out of British Columbia stands among them. Vancouver’s Svante Technologies is an integrated carbon management company founded in 2007 whose nano-engineered solid sorbent filter technology—which enables...

Sanctuary AI Evolves Model to Offer Software for Other Robotics Platforms

Sanctuary AI announced this week that it has achieved a new milestone toward deploying the Vancouver company’s proprietary Physical AI technology on existing and next-generation industrial robotic systems. Sanctuary says it achieved “world-class performance and innovation on a complex wire...

The people in their 60s who seem to have drifted from close friendships weren’t cold or indifferent — they were often the emotional anchor...

There is a particular person you meet in their sixties who seems to have ended up with fewer close friends than you would expect. Not friendless, exactly. But the standing dinners have thinned out, the group chats have gone...
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I’m hooked on Peak Design’s new City bags

Integrated BagLev hooks keep Peak Design’s City Line crossbody bag and backpack off the dirty ground. | Photo by...
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