A study published in Nature Communications found that a 50 per cent chance of pain is more stressful than pain itself — which reframes premature decisions as a coping mechanism, not a personality trait.
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In late 2024, the Pew Research Center surveyed more than 5,000 employed Americans and found that 52 per cent were worried about how AI might be used in their workplace. Roughly a third expected fewer job opportunities for themselves...
Innovation UBC is taking science out of the lab and into the realm of entertainment with the launch of Beaker Banter, a new podcast hosted by Dr. Marissa Lithopoulos.
The podcast is designed to spotlight innovators who are changing the...
Light AI has completed a $5M private placement, the company announced this week.
The Vancouver-based digital healthcare technology company focused on developing health diagnostic solutions powered by artificial intelligence technology says the financing from MV Capital will support ISO 13485/QMS...
She is standing at the counter at five past five, and her hand has already opened the fridge before she has thought about dinner. Two chicken breasts come out. She sets them on the cutting board the way she...
As Vancouver welcomes the world this summer, one of the city’s busiest gathering places is turning to AI-powered screening technology to help keep crowds moving safely.
Xtract One Technologies announced that its SmartGateway system has been selected to support security...
When someone strikes us as classy, the first explanation that arrives is usually money. Good schools, a certain ease, the right clothes, parents who could afford all three. Class, in the everyday sense, gets treated as something you either...
I’m not sold and neither should startups. At first glance, it looks like the government listened as they’re keeping the 50% CGT discount for startups.
They’ve proposed the Innovative Business CGT Concession (IBCC) to preserve the 50% discount for...
A baby-prediction app takes two adult photographs, runs them through a generative model trained on faces, and returns what is, mechanically, a weighted composite nudged toward whatever its training data treats as a normal, healthy, appealing infant. It is...
Two numbers from McKinsey’s 2025 survey sit awkwardly next to each other. The first is 88 percent, the share of organisations now using AI in at least one part of the business. The second is 39 percent, the share that...
