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TechnologyMore than $50 million in contracts will be doled out to a group of Canadian companies involved in drone manufacturing and engineering, after the Canadian and Ukrainian governments signed deals to advance access to drones for both countries last week. The news: On Sept. 10, the Administration of ...
TechnologyWhen should one look a gift billion in the mouth? Prime Minister Mark Carney has once again cajoled the international spotlight onto Canada, and the nation’s financial sector responded in kind, committing some $100 billion CAD in new capital before the Canada Investment Summit has even begun. Th...
TechnologySnap is codifying behavior that’s already happening inside the app. Snap is codifying behavior that’s already happening inside the app. Snapchat is launching Plans, a new suite of features designed to help turn the plans already being made in group chats — everything from birthday celebrations ...
TechnologyMeta's new agent Muse is built to handle tasks on its own, from booking travel to shopping. It runs on its own virtual machine and you control it through WhatsApp. Users can hand Muse simple jobs like sending an email or booking a trip, but Meta also claims it can take on bigger goals. For those...
TechnologyThis is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. When Eli Regalado first heard God speak to him, he wondered whether he was hallucinating. In line with to Eli and his wife, Kaitlyn, He told them to get marri...
TechnologyThe commander and pilot of NASA’s Artemis II mission have gained a new distinction five months after splashing down from the Moon: They’re not fully retiring from the space agency. Reid Wiseman and Victor Glover are the first astronauts to join NASA’s emeritus program, enabling them to continue ...
TechnologyMore than 1,000 homes in a planned community near Winnipeg’s University of Manitoba campus will heat and cool their homes with geothermal energy after the Province revealed $4 million in funding yesterday. The news: On Wednesday, Manitoba unveiled its Net Zero Action Plan, a guiding document out...
TechnologyA San Francisco nonprofit has published a detailed road map of the experiments, studies, and infrastructure that it says would be needed to make informed decisions about the use of solar geoengineering, MIT Technology Review can reveal. Scientists have now spent half a century exploring the poss...
TechnologyThe US is hitting records for the rapid growth of its energy storage market. That’ll go a long way to shoring up the grid, increasing reliability and also cutting emissions, since batteries can help store energy from intermittent renewables like wind and solar. Crucially, this is all happening w...
TechnologyApple always makes a big show of the latest cameras in its phones, and the key talking point of the iPhone 18 Pro is about the new variable aperture. Both the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max have an adjustable mechanical iris in their main camera modules to let more or less light into the sensor, allow...
TechnologyWaterloo Tech Week is returning to Kitchener and Waterloo for its second year, from Sept. 12 to 17. The decentralized tech conference’s calendar lists nearly 60 events organized by students, venture capital companies, tech startups, and local tech organizations. The conference is run by the same...
TechnologyEven the Trumps can’t escape RAMageddon. Even the Trumps can’t escape RAMageddon. Bad news if you didn’t lock in a Trump phone at launch: It now costs $749, a $250 rise on its price at launch. The T1 Phone itself hasn’t changed. In a related development, trump Mobile didn’t announce the price ...