In November of last year, scientists warned of a “severe” solar storm, the strongest in over two decades, colliding with the Earth. Solar storms are the result of a surge in solar activity, with the Sun unleashing a barrage of charged particles that can trigger spectacular auroras — and wreak havoc with communications satellites and…
Executives from OpenText, MDA Space, and La Caisse joined a group of 23 businesses and organizations that met with Prime Minister Mark Carney for a closed-door economic update meeting Monday. The news: The Prime Minister’s Office notified the media of the meeting Monday evening, saying Carney convened the group of business leaders to discuss developments…
Emissions Reduction Alberta (ERA), the provincial public agency responsible for investing in clean technology, has pumped nearly $51 million into more than a dozen projects it says could lower greenhouse gas emissions by more than 100,000 tonnes by 2030. The news: On Monday, ERA announced it was investing just shy of $51 million in funding…
As backlash against surveillance grows, governments overseeing cities, townships, and counties around the US are dropping their Flock contracts at a record pace — a retreat so widespread that some say it could affect the company’s viability. The police tech company, known for its sprawling network of automatic license plate readers (ALPRs), has become one…
Montréal and Boulder, Colorado-based Landjourney has rebranded to Sweet Technologies and closed $7.4 million USD ($10.3 million CAD) to expand the reach of its agriculture-focused lending software. The news: Sweet announced the seed financing Monday. It was led by Montréal’s Diagram, San Francisco-based Builders VC, and Illinois’ Cooperative Ventures. The all-primary capital round, which consisted…
President Donald Trump sowed a fair bit of confusion after posting not one but two AI-generated videos of a supposed US strike on Iran’s Kharg Island. Trump, as it turned out, was simply hallucinating a fantasy, forcing a US official to clarify Monday that the depicted “attacks” on the island, Iran’s main hub of oil…
Tariffs were one of the factors that contributed to Ssense’s insolvency last year. Now, as the Montréal luxury e-commerce platform hopes to mount a comeback, it plans to open a new warehouse in the United States to avoid those charges to its largest customer base. The news: The embattled fashion company told The New York…
An Oregon man falsely posing as a professional football player and his young accomplice scammed roughly $1.3 million out of at least 26 women across four states, the FBI alleges. The duo’s efforts to bolster the con online eventually got sucked into Google’s misinformation-plagued AI Overviews feature, which parroted it back as fact — a…
It’s no secret that AI is becoming increasingly unpopular around the world, as the tech’s garbled output has become impossible for the average person to avoid. For a rising cohort of workers, AI is also becoming inescapable on the job. According to one piece of research, staffers aren’t exactly thrilled with that reality. The new…
Capturing the zeitgeist has never been actor Gal Gadot’s strong suit. The Israeli performer’s most recent appearances on the silver screen — two lauded starring roles as Wonder Woman not withstanding — have quickly garnered her a reputation for being the butt of the joke, from singing John Lennon’s “Imagine” in an infamous viral March…
