For the first time, users can access live market odds on future events directly in Google Search and Google Finance, elevating blockchain-powered forecasts into public view. What to know: Google will now display real-time prediction market odds from Polymarket and Kalshi in Google Search and Google Finance. The integration brings crowd-sourced forecasts into mainstream finance…
AI-image by Grok: Maduro has hostages, now. Five behind enemy lines. As the siege of Venezuela goes into overdrive with multiple strikes on drug boats and even the first reported attack on a land target associated with the Cartels, the Caribbean has become a veritable powder keg. In this context, it was first reported by…
In layman’s terms, Kitchener-Waterloo-based advanced materials startup Nfinite wants to make “paper that performs like plastic.” Technically speaking, it’s pioneering tech that seals flexible paper packaging using nanotechnology to extend its lifespan. The University of Waterloo spinout is ready to demonstrate that it can do this at scale and in a cost-effective manner with the…
Scale AI has revealed nearly $129 million CAD in fresh financing across 44 new Canadian applied artificial intelligence (AI) projects in what it claims is its largest group of commitments to date. The government-backed Canadian AI cluster is ponying up about $46 million, while private partners are coinvesting the remaining $83 million. “This is a…
How could there be no ectoplasm in physical mediumship? Back in the 1980’s, some very unusual physical mediumship phenomena was being reported by those lucky people who experienced séances with Leicester-based Physical Medium Rita Goold. Results included regular ‘materialisation’ of spirit personalities and evidential messages from those spirit ‘friends’ who visited Rita’s séances. Interestingly, although there…
“Sometimes people wound us because they’re wounded and tell us we’re broken because that’s how they feel, but we don’t have to believe them.” ~Lori Deschene Age and healing don’t make you invulnerable to moments that can bring you back to the kind of trauma you experienced as a child. It doesn’t mean that you’re…
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM It’s usually around this time of the summer season when you find out which plants you’ve been taking for granted. You stroll through your garden, and there it is: your favorite leafy friend, drooping like it’s given up. The instinct is to reach for the hose. More water, surely,…
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by Teresa Sahli: February is the month we recognize and celebrate love in any and all forms… It’s the perfect time to pay attention to how we can better care for our relationships with others. Healthy relationships with friends, family, and colleagues are an important part of a happy life and healthy emotional well-being. And…
We’re all in this race, whether we realize it or not. We’d better pick up the pace. Reading by Tim Foley: John F Kennedy was correct when he said “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” That’s why police robots are being aggressively normalized today. The empire managers want to make…
