Monday, August 17, 2026

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TIME Names Vancouver Innovator as World’s Top GreenTech Company in 2026

A Vancouver company ranks as the world’s top green technology innovator. TIME partnered with data firm Statista on the second annual ranking of the World’s Top GreenTech Companies, naming 250 top performing companies operating within the green technologies wheelhouse. While only...

MIT Media Lab and OpenAI tracked nearly 1,000 ChatGPT users for four weeks, but the early finding cut against the comfort the chatbot promised...

Picture someone at the end of a long day. The apartment is quiet. They open ChatGPT, not to draft an email or debug a script, but to say something close to: here is how I am feeling, tell me...

NESI Secures $5.6M to Advance Clean Technology Targeting Battery Sector

NORAM Electrolysis Systems has attracted public capital, the Vancouver-based clean technology innovator known as NESI revealed this week. NESI secured a total of $5.6 million in funding from the Government of Canada and the Province of British Columbia, the Canadian...

Now Vinyl is taking Time Out

Vinyl Group (ASX:VNL), backed by Wisetech founder Richard White, was in a trading halt, and has raised an additional $2.4 million, at $0.054 per share, a 10% discount on the June 5 closing price. The company says the raise was...

Here’s what I told a Senate committee looking at Budget’s CGT changes – and why they’re a problem for startups

I support the Government’s objectives for improving housing affordability and a fairer, sustainable tax system and changes to negative gearing and also reforms to capital gains tax (CGT). I have been a small business owner, built businesses to successful exits,...

Gallup has found only about one in five workers worldwide feel engaged on the job, but the number that should worry economies is even...

A quick note: I am not an economist, a psychologist, or an organizational scientist. This is me reading Gallup’s data and thinking out loud about it. The figures here are estimates and population-level patterns, not a diagnosis of your...

Canadian Startups Attract Record Capital at Okanagan Angel Summit

The 2026 Okanagan Angel Summit Finale concluded with more than $400,000 committed to Canadian startups, the largest amount in the program’s history. The Summit, powered by Accelerate Okanagan, is designed to bridge the gap between entrepreneurs seeking growth capital and...

Victoria’s Sepura Sells Out First Batch of Food Waste Device

Victoria-based Sepura has sold out the first production batch of root, its patented under-sink food separator, marking an early traction milestone for the B.C. sustainable hardware startup. The company said its first batch of pre-orders is scheduled to ship in...

In 1981, two researchers proposed that burnout is not simple tiredness but three separate collapses

In 1981, two psychologists published a short paper in the Journal of Organizational Behavior that quietly influences how a lot of us talk about being worn down by work. Christina Maslach and Susan E. Jackson introduced something they called the...

People who spend their Sunday rebuilding their task system instead of doing the tasks aren’t procrastinating, many are trying to feel in control of...

It is 3:47 on a Sunday afternoon and Maya is in a new database. She has been in it for an hour and forty minutes. The old one, which she rebuilt in September, had grown a kind of digital...
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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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