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Canadian celebrities, including TV chef Mary Berg, singer Michael Bublé, comedian Rick Mercer, and hockey star Sidney Crosby, are revealing their secrets to financial success—until the Bank of Canada tried to stop them. These ads aren't…

NASA’s 2024 Spinoff publication highlights NASA technologies that "benefit life on Earth in the form of commercial products." The 2024 version features 40-plus medical and other commercialized technologies using the agency’s R&D and new…

 “Mixed reality” AKA “spatial computing” headsets combine the real world with digital content. Using passthrough video that blocks out all light, users rely on headset cameras to take in the external world via real-time video playing on…

Zombies rejoice! This is the beginning of the end of chasing down humans for a meal. Soon, you'll be able to sit in the shed and play Timesplitters 2 with Shaun and Ed. (If you haven't seen Shaun of the Dead, it's a fun little romp.) In…

Researchers at MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, have posited that historical episodes of climate change triggered ancient pandemics. I found this fascinating as we are still feeling the effects of…

The Speech Accessibility Project is actively recruiting U.S. and Puerto Rican adults who have had a stroke or have Parkinson's disease, Down syndrome, cerebral palsy, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. This project, funded by big tech…

Large Language Models (LLM) like OpenAI's ChatGPT are AI types trained with vast amounts (trillions) of words that can return information in human-like text. So, when you ask ChatGPT to write you a haiku about children, it looks through its…

Bacteria isn't all bad. After all, the good bacteria are in our kombucha, yogurt, pickles, and sourdough bread. However, as "bad" bacteria become more resistant to antibiotics, the threat this poses grows. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR)…

2023 devastated Silicon Valley tech workers—representing the worst 12 months since the dot.com crash two decades ago. Reasons cited for layoffs in 2023 included over-hiring during the pandemic, rising inflation, and lower consumer demand.…

Having switched my major from geology to business, I’m still a sucker for all things USGS. The organization just turned to quantum technology to help with the next generation of geological challenges, establishing a Cooperative Research and…