Thursday, June 18, 2026

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BC Business House To Showcase Province During World Cup

As the world arrives in Vancouver for seven FIFA World Cup 2026 matches this summer, British Columbia is preparing to turn global attention into economic opportunity. BC Tech is partnering with the Government of British Columbia to help promote trade,...

You have until June 9 to tell politicians what you think of the Budget’s capital gains tax changes

On Tuesday, June 9, submissions close for a Senate inquiry into the government’s proposed changes to capital gains tax, announced in the federal budget last month. So rather than raging on LinkedIn with Albo memes, this is your chance to...

Cheque in: 7 startups kicked off June raising $17 million

This week, we counted seven Australian and New Zealand startups that raised a combined total of $17 million in new funding. This includes Nardo, which now has Cahill on board as an investor and advisor, and Alloovium and Gutgutgoose,...

Elon Musk is a week away from becoming the world’s first trillionaire

The company’s decision to publish a ‌price on Wednesday a week ahead of its landmark offering has few if any precedents among major US IPOs, and reflects Musk’s standing in the financial world ‌as an adventurer with a golden...

Australia’s lagging innovation metrics; a new owner for Fishburners

Fishburners has a new owner. And episode 60’s guest is Carolyn Breeze, CEO of the buyer, ASX-listed Scalare Partners. Scalare bought Fishburners from the voluntary administrators this week and the startup community and its members will leave the Tech Central...

Many people in their sixties realise on a quiet Sunday that they have been calling themselves a private person for thirty years when the...

For thirty years, calling oneself a private person sounds like a virtue. It sounds like depth, like discretion, like a quiet preference for keeping a small life intact. The honest version is harder: many people who describe themselves this...

A single aspen colony in Utah called Pando covers 106 acres, weighs 6,000 tons, and is genetically one organism connected by a root system...

Crouch down in the understory at Pando and the story is in the soil. Aspen suckers, finger-thin and pale, push up from the root mass and are immediately bitten off at ankle height. Then the next one. Then the...

The first U.S. insider trading case tied to a prediction market isn’t really about a Google engineer’s $1.2M — it’s about what blockchain pseudonymity...

Federal prosecutors in Manhattan have charged Michele Spagnuolo, a 12-year Google software engineer, with insider trading after he allegedly turned confidential internal search data into $1.2 million in profits on the prediction market platform Polymarket. The complaint alleges he...

People who keep the thermostat colder than everyone else prefers often aren’t just running hot — many grew up in houses where the heating...

It is 11.47pm and someone in a quiet kitchen is doing the small nightly thing they always do. A glance at the thermostat. A pause. A finger that hovers, considers, and then drops the temperature one degree before bed....

The world’s most advanced chips, from iPhones to AI supercomputers, depend on machines so complex that only one company has ever mastered them: ASML,...

The world’s most advanced chips, from the processor in an iPhone to the accelerators inside AI supercomputers, depend on machines so complex that only one company has ever mastered them. That company is ASML, in the Dutch town of...
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Midjourney goes from generating cat images to full-body ultrasound scans

“A scan of an imaging phantom, segmented to validate how cleanly structures separate under controlled conditions.“ | Image: Midjourney...
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