A Tesla running one of its self-driving modes was rear-ended after stopping in the middle of a Arizona highway, Electrek reports, with the driver found dead at the scene. Grimly, it’s not the first accident of its kind. The crash occurred on October 31, 2025. According to local reports at the time, the 2020 Tesla…
Aspiring Vancouver-based commercial robotics integrator NorBot Technology has secured $1 million CAD in pre-seed funding. The news: NorBot aims to act as “the bridge” between the world’s top robotics platforms and Canadian businesses, helping the latter source, integrate, deploy, and manage robots across their operations through its proprietary fleet-management and digital twin software. The startup…
After seven years in media and venture capital (VC) with Jason Calacanis’ Launch in Silicon Valley, Presh Dineshkumar has returned to Toronto to build a consumer healthtech business. Dineshkumar left Launch in 2024 and teamed up with childhood friend and software developer Dray Williams to found The Wellness Company (TWC) as a product studio that…
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Scientists can now draw a straight line from a single oil company’s emissions to a specific disaster. Not a rough estimate of the industry’s overall contribution, but a specific company, a specific event, a specific percentage. That’s what a new peer-reviewed study published in Earth’s Future has done, and…
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Most spice jars get rinsed and recycled. A few get left on the counter until someone throws them away. Almost none get a second life, and professional organizers say that’s worth reconsidering. Clean them first. Professional eco-friendly organizer Marie Potter recommends washing each jar in hot, soapy water, then…
When the long awaited role playing game “Fallout 4” dropped in 2015, it marked the first installation in the franchise in five years. The release quickly became a running joke, with working class gamers yukking it up over their plans to call in sick the day it hit store shelves, and the game’s developer even…
1996 was a big year for tech: Dolly the Sheep, Internet Explorer 3.0, and the launch of the app currently at the heart of Canada’s digital sovereignty battle. The news: Following US President Donald Trump’s trade tirade, Google Maps and Apple Maps have renamed Lake Ontario to Lake America for US users, prompting an exodus…
A traveling petting zoo has become the center of a mini health crisis in North Carolina. After recently hosting events for elderly people and schoolchildren, several of its adorable baby goats tested positive for rabies, The New York Times reported, in a situation that the zoo’s owner is calling a “nightmare.” Now, state officials are…
Former Republican congressman and ironic meme icon George Santos was just banned from Kalshi — for life. It’s the first lifetime ban that the prediction market has ever handed out, the New York Times reports, which is pretty incredible considering all the inside trading that’s suspected to happen on the platform. There was pretty much…
Vancouver-based Mundo AI has closed $20 million USD ($28 million CAD) in Series A funding to build “the data layer for perceptual intelligence.” The news: Mundo develops the data, evaluations, and applied research that other AI labs and companies need to train systems capable of processing sensory information (or what it calls “perceptual intelligence”). The…
