A lot of workplace software is complex, clunky, and not super intuitive. A Montréal startup is betting that most employees would rather ask an AI tool than their manager how to use it. The news: Montréal-based Solving.AI has raised a $1.1-million CAD pre-seed round from AQC Capital and Québec angel investors for its AI training…
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Sharing the last of my Japan posts! We had the most magical time in Kyoto and I’m excited to share the details with you if you’re considering adding this to your travel list! More posts from our incredible time in Seoul and Tokyo: Seoul recap Korean head spa experience Tokyo recap and why I love…
The footage is reportedly said to have been recorded over the Jequitinhonha Valley in Minas Gerais, Brazil, in 2009 by an American tourist traveling through the region. According to the claim, it was filmed using a Sony DCR-PJ5 camcorder, a model advertised with 60x optical zoom and 1800x digital zoom. However, there is a significant…
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM The story of women in art history is mostly a story of not getting seen. Not because women weren’t making art —they were—but because the structures that decided which art got shown, bought, and remembered were built by and for men. MAG The Women Gallery, launched in 2024, is…
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Conventional satellites can’t detect a wildfire until it’s roughly the size of a cruise ship. Greece just launched four that catch them when they’re four meters (about 13 feet) across. The four OroraTech nanosatellites, each smaller than a carry-on bag, went into low Earth orbit in May. Greece is…
A major Marvel rumor is making waves online, with reports claiming that Adam Driver is being lined up to play Magneto in Marvel Studios’ highly anticipated X-Men reboot. The casting rumor quickly gained traction after surfacing through industry scoopers before spreading across social media, Reddit, and several entertainment news outlets. While Marvel Studios has yet…
TouchBistro, which sells point-of-sale (POS) technology to restaurants, has been acquired by fellow Canadian firm Harris Computer, a subsidiary of Constellation Software. The news: TouchBistro had raised hundreds of millions worth of venture capital (VC) funding and debt from big-name investors to bring its POS and restaurant management software and hardware to market. Ottawa’s Harris…
For those interested, I was at the Roswell Festival over the July 4th weekend. I look at this as an opportunity to connect with other UFO researchers and those who had UFO experiences. This year, among those there were Don Schmitt, Travis Walton, Kathleen Marden, Ben Hansen, Thom Reed, Frank Kimbler, Marc D’Antonio and…
One of Canada’s quantum frontrunners announced another breakthrough in error correction on quantum computers, in an effort to make them useful in the real world. The news: Sherbrooke, Que.-based Nord Quantique, last valued at $1.4 billion USD ($1.9 billion CAD), published a research paper demonstrating that it achieved errors below 0.1 percent on a single-mode,…
