Canada’s AI minister says Nokia’s Ottawa expansion is “what sovereign AI looks like.” Industry critics, however, say the federal government’s support of a Finnish multinational actually might hurt the Canadian economy. “This is what sovereign AI … looks like in practice. It means employing Canadians, building tech right here, [and] deploying the tech throughout the…
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM For decades, researchers looked for the seat of magnetoreception in all the obvious places: the eyes, the inner ear, the beak. A study just published in Science points somewhere none of them expected. The organ doing the magnetic navigation work in homing pigeons appears to be the liver. Iron…
Roommates, the internet is buzzing, wondering if Angela Simmons is stepping into a new era. The entrepreneur just dropped her first single, ‘Run To,’ with a music video, and social media is NOT holding back on their reactions. RELATED: Issa Kiii! Angela Simmons Has The Internet Crackin’ UP After Finessing Her Son In TikTok’s “Backup…
At Davos, Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s son-in-law and former White House adviser, unveiled a “master plan” for Gaza, a seven-slide spectacle of CGI skyscrapers, luxury apartments, data centres, and coastal resorts. Branded Project Sunrise, it promises to transform the bombed-out Gaza Strip into a high-tech Riviera. On screen, Gaza gleams. On the ground, it is a…
Float co-founder and CEO Rob Khazzam, Google DeepMind’s Amit Vadi, and Boardy founder Andrew D’Souza are among the latest speakers joining Toronto Tech Week’s official mainstage event. Homecoming returns for its second year on May 27, where it will anchor Toronto Tech Week’s days-long celebration of Canadian technology. Hosted at History, Homecoming aims to bring…
Credit: Jaimie Michaels/Flickr Something very sinister is happening at the supposed happiest place on Earth. A dead body was just discovered at Disney World and it’s the sixth one in just three months. It’s an obvious public relations disaster for Disney but it also raises all kinds of questions. What are the odds of so…
One of the selling points of Tesla’s much-hyped Cybercab — its purpose-built robotaxi — is that it doesn’t need manual controls. That’s why it doesn’t even come with a steering wheel or pedals. But an early passenger who got to ride one of the self-driving cars after they launched in Austin last week discovered that…
Apple Blythe Alison Martin is the daughter of Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin. She was born in London in 2004 and started at Vanderbilt in fall 2022. She majored in law, history, and society. She joined Kappa Kappa Gamma. She graduated this month. Apple Martin’s Nashville graduation. Photo by BACKGRID. She wore a white Vivienne Westwood dress under…
“Knowledge is not skill. Knowledge plus ten thousand times is skill.” ~Shinichi Suzuki I knew exactly what to say to my narcissistic mother. I just could never say it. For twenty years I studied every technique in the book. Gray rocking (becoming emotionally neutral and unreactive). Broken record (calmly repeating the same boundary). Don’t JADE…
Randon Alexander Sprinkle In December of 2025, The Gateway Pundit reported that Randon Alexander Sprinkle, 31, a former top Democrat Party official in Virginia, was charged federally with the distribution of child pornography. Sprinkle, a former finance chairman of the Virginia Democratic Party and former treasurer for the Metro Richmond Area Young Democrats, was convicted…
