Thursday, November 12, 2026

Business

Venture Capital for Food-Tech Innovation is Shifting Flow, Report Finds

The Canadian Food Innovation Network today released its report covering the nation’s food-tech ecosystem. Across the first half of 2026, nearly 50 fundraising events have generated more than $60M in capital for food-tech companies nationwide. British Columbia saw the biggest raise...

Ideon Joins ‘Landmark’ Research Project to Advance Next-Gen Imaging Tech

Ideon Technologies has revealed that it intends to participate in a landmark international research-based consortium. An innovator of subsurface intelligence, Ideon uses energy from supernova explosions to see deep beneath the Earth’s surface, pioneering the development of cosmic-ray muon tomography...

Book review: Tech Bros, the Atlassian founders story, is big on detail, light on insight

But if you’re looking for startup inspiration, then this may not be the book for you. Ahead of the review, I admit I approached John Stensholt’s and Perry Williams’ book with a touch of unease, worrying the book would be...

‘Aussie AI’: assistant tech minister wants the data centre push to deliver higher up the ‘value chain’

In a lecture to be delivered at the ANU Crawford School Tuesday titled “Why Australia Needs to Turn Compute into Sovereign AI”, Charlton argues Australia needs to leverage its data centre advantage and translate that into benefits and growth...

When ByteDance moved to end its fortnightly six-day rota in 2021, a large share of its own staff objected rather than celebrated, because as...

A company scraps a schedule that forced its people to work an extra Sunday every other week, handing them back roughly 20 days a year. You would expect relief, maybe applause. Instead, a big share of the workforce pushed...

The claim that self-approval beats popularity sounds like a fridge magnet, but the research on where self-worth comes from is unusually pointed: staking it...

Self-approval beats popularity reads like a motivational slogan, the kind of line that is easy to nod at and then ignore. The psychology behind it is more specific, and more useful, than the phrasing suggests. The point is not...

Psychology says people who carry one mug to the kitchen instead of waiting to carry four aren’t tidy or impatient — they’re spending real...

It looks like the least efficient way to clear a table. One mug, one trip, back and forth, when waiting five more minutes would let the same person carry all four at once and cut the total number of trips...

A meta-analysis of 138 experiments found that tracking progress significantly improves goal achievement — and the effect becomes stronger when that progress is recorded...

Goals usually begin in the future tense: finish the proposal, save the deposit, train three times a week. Progress exists in the present tense. It asks a less inspiring but more useful question: what has actually happened since the...

GeoComply Extends Partnership with FanDuel to Deliver Tech Worthy of Trust

GeoComply is extending its partnership with FanDuel Group, a mobile gaming company based in the United States. Founded in Vancouver in 2011 by Anna Sainsbury and David Briggs, GeoComply offers a digital identity platform and trust engine that can detect...

UBC Researchers Are Turning B.C. Wood Waste into a Post-Plastic Opportunity

British Columbia has no shortage of wood—but much of what is harvested never reaches a mill. At the same time, industries worldwide are searching for practical alternatives to petroleum-based plastics. Researchers at the University of British Columbia believe these two...
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Ticket Alert: Kings of Leon, Fall Out Boy, and More Seattle Events Going On Sale This Week

The Coachella lineup may have dropped this week, but there’s a batch of talented musicians coming through the Pacific...
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