The round for Flyweel was led by Ten13, with support from Antler, QIC, and several fintech leaders including Mollie CEO and former Klarna CTO Koen Köppen, Zip cofounder Larry Diamond, and Stake cofounder Matt Leibowitz, as well as a...
This is the opening statement from the Tech Council of Australia’s new CEO, Dr Kate Cornick, to the Senate Economics Legislation Committee inquiry into the federal budget’s changes to capital gains tax and other reforms.
I’m five weeks in as...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
