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Most people don’t realise the moment a long marriage actually deepens isn’t a milestone or a holiday, it’s the ordinary Tuesday when one of...

The cultural script for a deepening marriage gets the timing exactly backwards. It points at anniversaries, vow renewals, the trip to Lisbon for the twentieth, the surprise party with the slideshow. As if intimacy compounds during the moments designed...

On September 9, 1947, a technician on Harvard’s Mark II team taped a dead moth into the logbook beside the line ‘first actual case...

The moth was about an inch long, dead, its wings still intact when the operators of Harvard’s Mark II Aiken Relay Calculator found it wedged inside Panel F, between the contacts of Relay #70, at 15:45 hours on September...

DRIVE Hockey Lands AI Grant as Smart Arena Momentum Builds

Vancouver-based DRIVE Hockey is building momentum in the emerging field of sports AI. The sports tech startup, which is developing a smart arena network for hockey analytics, announced this week that it has secured a $100,000 grant from the National...

Bezos, Altman and Milner have poured billions into cell reprogramming as the new anti-aging frontier — and Life Biosciences just dosed the first human,...

Cell reprogramming — the technique of returning adult cells to a more youthful state using four genetic factors identified in Nobel Prize-winning research — has become the buzziest approach in longevity science, displacing earlier obsessions with telomere lengthening and...

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...
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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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