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Many people assume those who build powerful AI must grasp how it thinks, but in an important sense they cannot: even a model’s own...

Here is a claim that sounds like it must be wrong: the people who build the most capable AI systems in the world often cannot give a complete, reliable explanation of why a model produced one answer instead of...

Koonkie Captures Capital for Innovation Supporting Ecological Restoration

A biological analytics and software company specializing in large-scale DNA data has garnered federal capital for a special project. Vancouver-based Koonkie works with mining companies, consultants, universities, and even NASA to solve complex data challenges in natural and industrial systems,...

People who keep the same four or five books on their nightstand for years without ever finishing them aren’t disorganised, they’ve built a small...

The books have been there for years. A memoir with a bookmark stalled at page 47. A novel someone gave you three birthdays ago. A collection of essays you keep meaning to finish. Something spiritual you read when you...

We picture loneliness as an old person’s burden, yet a global 2023 survey found this may not be the case: across 142 countries, adults...

There is a mental image most of us reach for without thinking. Loneliness looks like an elderly person in a quiet house, the phone that rarely rings, the empty chair across the table. It is the picture behind a...

In 1901, Greek sponge divers sheltering from a storm off the island of Antikythera stumbled onto a Roman shipwreck and hauled up a corroded...

Elias Stadiatis surfaced off the coast of Antikythera in the spring of 1900 wearing a copper diving helmet and canvas suit, and told his captain he had just seen a heap of rotting corpses on the seabed. The captain,...

The Atacama Desert in northern Chile has weather stations that have recorded no rainfall for centuries, and yet a fog rolls in from the...

Some weather stations in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile have recorded no measurable rainfall for centuries. Not a drizzle. Not a passing shower. And yet, in the same terrain where the soil chemistry more closely resembles Mars than...

Innovation UBC Taps Sauder Talent to Help Eight Startups Grow

Innovation UBC has introduced its 2026 cohort of Venture Development Specialists, pairing five UBC Sauder graduate students with eight early-stage companies working to bring university research to market. The specialists are Lisa Popplewell, Drew Blackmun, Nkemdilim Okwuchi, Mitchell Liebrecht, and...

BC Tech Finalist hyperlocal Is Building the Missing Layer for Real-Life Connection

This article is part of a series presented in partnership with BC Tech, profiling the finalists for the 2026 Technology Impact Awards‘ Company of the Year – Startup category. Cities do not lack activities or people looking for connection. What...

Sexual harassment case against Dovetail cofounder ends out of court

The case involved a four-month sexual relationship between the two in early 2022. Lo Russo, who joined the software scaleup in January 2022, after five years at Corrs Chambers Westgarth, commenced Federal Court proceedings for harassment and discrimination against...

The adults who stay genuinely happy in their 70s and 80s aren’t the ones with the most family nearby — they’re the ones with...

My grand-aunt sat at the head of every family table for as long as I knew her. She was the one you cleared the big decisions with, whose opinion could end an argument, the matriarch three generations arranged themselves around....
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What Huang’s resignation means for chipmakers and AI

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced his resignation after it was reported that he had an affair with a businesswoman...
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