Category: Science & Technology

Facebook said Friday that it will flag all “newsworthy” posts from politicians that break its rules, including those from U.S. President Donald Trump. CEO Mark Zuckerberg had previously refused to take action against Trump’s posts suggesting that mail-in ballots will Read more …

Amazon said Friday that it is buying U.S. self-driving technology company Zoox, which is developing an autonomous vehicle for a ride-hailing service that people would request on their phones. Seattle-based Amazon did not disclose how much it is paying for Read more …

Microsoft said Friday it is permanently closing its physical stores around the world. In Canada, seven locations in British Columbia, Alberta and Ontario will be closed.  Like other retailers, the software and computing giant had to temporarily close all of its Read more …

An incident report looking into North Atlantic right whale deaths in Canadian waters in 2019 shows vessel strikes continue to be a big threat to the endangered species. The report, compiled by the Marine Animal Response Society and Canadian Wildlife Health Read more …

A Calgary-born engineer is on a mission to take the stink out of sports gear — even the dreaded hockey bag. Aram Razouki has invented a duffel bag that removes bad smells and bacteria through a self-ionizing process, and he’s moved to Read more …

We have an opportunity to use the expansion of virtual health care resulting from COVID-19 to improve accessibility for people living in rural and remote areas of Saskatchewan.  Prior to COVID-19, Canada lagged behind other countries in the integration of virtual Read more …

NASA is naming its Washington headquarters after Mary Jackson, the space agency’s first African American female engineer whose story was portrayed in the popular film Hidden Figures. Jackson started her NASA career in 1951 as part of a segregated unit Read more …

Private docks around Yellowknife are bobbing off their pilings and kayakers can paddle from Great Slave Lake directly onto parts of the government dock in Old Town where people sometimes sit in vehicles watching the boats go by. “The big lake,” Read more …

New findings of earthquake recurrence on the Denali Fault line in southwest Yukon are helping researchers get closer to pinpointing when the next big one in the area might be. Large earthquakes with a magnitude of 6 or higher — the kind Read more …

Eating your veggies isn’t only good for you — it may someday protect you against COVID-19. That’s the hope of a plant biologist at the University of Ottawa who’s working to create an edible vaccine for the novel coronavirus. Allyson MacLean’s research involves injecting Read more …