Friday, November 13, 2026

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In a classic experiment, people preferred to repeat 90 seconds of painfully cold water rather than 60 seconds of the same pain because the...

There is the pain a person lives through, and then there is the pain their memory files away for later. The unsettling part of the classic cold-water experiment is that those two versions of an experience do not always...

The EU says Instagram and Facebook’s addictive design likely breaks its rules — and it wants autoplay and infinite scroll off by default

The European Commission said on 10 July that the design of Instagram and Facebook probably breaks European law, in a preliminary finding that Meta did not do enough to keep its platforms from being addictive. Regulators pointed to four...

Most of what you do all day runs on habit, not choice — but a new study found the habits are usually working for...

You woke up this morning and, somewhere between the alarm and the front door, made a few dozen small decisions you will never remember making. Which foot hit the floor. Coffee before the shower or after. The precise path...

How GroundedAI Is Bringing AI Below the Surface

Canada is preparing to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on transit, energy, mining, and other major infrastructure projects. But some of the biggest threats to delivering that work on time and on budget lie beneath the surface. Unlike above-ground...

An Expanding DMG Invests in Local Startups with ‘Tremendous Synergies’

DMG Blockchain Solutions this week unveiled multiple strategic investments aimed at supporting growth objectives. The B.C.-based vertically integrated digital asset and data centre technology company is investing in MeetAmi Innovations. Founded in 2019, MeetAmi is a Vancouver fintech company targeting digital...

Peter Evans on Xtract One’s PNE Deployment and the Future of AI-Powered Physical Security

As Vancouver continues to build its reputation as a host city for major international events, the technology protecting attendees is becoming just as important as the events themselves. Toronto-based Xtract One Technologies recently announced that its AI-powered SmartGateway screening system...

AI advocates have a big problem with Gen Z’s opposition

He said he would embrace AI for storyboarding – the practice of creating a visual outline in the early stages of developing a movie or TV show. The announcement was met with significant online backlash and sentiments about how AI...

Finland, a country long invaded and overshadowed by its neighbors, built the most trusted education system in the world by doing almost the exact...

Finland did build one of the world’s most admired education systems around trust rather than constant inspection, competition and high-stakes testing. It did not, however, win an objective global title for the “most trusted education system.” No authoritative international...

Psychology suggests memory is not a recording but a story we rebuild each time: in one experiment, a quarter of people came to ‘remember’...

Picture a memory you are sure of. Not a fuzzy one, a solid one. Say a childhood scene where you got separated from your parents in a big shop, felt that cold drop in your stomach, and then a...

Chasing happiness can be the thing that scares it off: research suggests those who prize being happy above all else often end up lonelier...

What follows is reading and reflection on published psychology research, not advice. We are writers, not psychologists or therapists. The studies here are observational and experimental work on group averages, and a pattern across a sample is not a...
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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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