If you’ve spent time outside in virtually any part of Canada this summer, you’ve likely been choked by wildfire smoke. But just how harmful is that smoke? Is it similar to inhaling, say, second-hand cigarette smoke, or is there something even more sinister wafting in those fumes? Researchers are trying to find out. “You’d think…
Winnipeg-based autonomous welding robotics company TetraGen Robotics has raised $1.8 million CAD in seed round funding. The news: The funding comes via an oversubscribed round led by Calgary’s StepChange Capital, with participation from Vancouver’s Emend Vision Fund, a VC firm with a focus that includes industrial modernization. TetraGen did not disclose cheque sizes or additional…
TBI’s ‘dual-track’ approach to govt spending is more like a ‘dual-track-and-trace’ approach to social credit that requires every person to have a digital ID pegged to their finances: perspective The Tony Blair Institute (TBI) for Global Change calls on governments to add an AI layer to digital ID to “rank taxpayers” and to target “discrenancies between taxpayer…
Date of sighting: August 6, 2026 Location of sighting: Poway, California, USA Source: NUFORC #199956 This just in from National UFO Reporting Center. A UFO was caught by accident when a person was taking a photo of the city night view. The trail behind it looks to be semi visible and weaving in a spinning…
Screencap of Twitter/X video. On Saturday, Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger (D) bragged about her participation at the Old Fiddlers’ Convention for its 90th annual celebration held in Galax, Virginia. Although she shared a video that made it seem as though the crowd was happy to see her. I’m in Galax to join the Old Fiddlers’…
Supergirl is flying into theaters, and DC fans have plenty of reason to rejoice. The spinoff from 2025’s Superman follows Kara (Milly Alcock), Clark Kent’s cousin from Krypton, as she pub-crawls across the cosmos. Her plans for devil-may-care merriment are disrupted, however, when she crosses paths with an orphaned girl named Ruthye (Eve Ridley) on…
New Orleans, home to more than 300,000 residents and an emergency system that handles thousands of calls each day, is turning to AI for help. The city recently confirmed that emergency services, overseen by the Orleans Parish Communication District, are deploying an AI triage tool to screen and sort incoming calls to assist human operators….
YouTube built one of the creator economy‘s biggest payment systems, but now it is raising the bar for who gets to share in it. Beginning Feb. 1, 2027, new creators will need 8,000 qualified watch hours over the previous year or 20 million qualified Shorts views within 90 days to earn advertising and YouTube Premium…
House of the Dragon closed out its third season with the Battle of Tumbleton, a massive set piece that combined a military siege with some serious dragon firepower. SEE ALSO: ‘House of the Dragon’ Season 3: How does the Battle of Tumbleton compare to the book? The first of these dragons is Daemon Targaryen’s (Matt…
Since Elon Musk‘s takeover of the former Twitter, now known as X, there have been plenty of criticism leveled against the platform and the changes Musk instituted. Regardless of one’s political background or general feelings on Musk, one of the main unanimous complaints has been the overall diminishing quality of content of the social media…
