Science & Technology

AI shows tremendous promise in discovering new patterns buried in mountains of data. Yet, some data remains isolated across various silos for technical, ethical and commercial reasons. A promising new AI and machine learning technique called amalgamated learning might help overcome these silos to find new cures for diseases, prevent fraud and improve industrial equipment.…

My first bicycle was not, in fact, a bicycle. I rode it in 1968, when I was two years old and as tubby as a bear cub. It had four wheels, not two, and no pedals: strictly speaking, it was a scooter. But Playskool called it a Tyke Bike, so I say it qualifies, and…

Kevin Cameron, whose father died last year and whose mother is in a nursing home, must now decide what to keep or toss from their cluttered home in Shelburne, N.S.Aaron McKenzie Fraser/The Globe and MailLast fall, Kevin Cameron stood in the doorway of his parents’ two-storey Saltbox home in the woods on the South Shore…

When it comes to stories of progress, there aren’t many environmental successes to learn from. We’ve seen massive improvements in many human dimensions in recent decades – declines in extreme poverty; reductions in child mortality; increases in life expectancy. But most metrics that relate to the environment are moving in the wrong direction. Although there…

The hottest DATE ever was TEMP in YEAR. Yesterday ranked Xth at TEMP. The bars represent YEARS of recorded daily high temperatures from every DATE since YEAR. When multiple days have the same temperature, the bar is brighter. Let’s highlight temperatures for the past WEEKS. almost had a record on FULL DATE. It was the…

From first principles Turn a misbehaving computer off and on, or stop a misbehaving program and then start it again. Often, the problem goes away. Most users don’t think hard about this, and just accept it as just another inscrutable fact about computers. However, as you learn more about how computers work, I suspect that…

Earlier this month Seth Green was scammed out of four NFTs, including a $200,000 Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT. There's more at stake than just Green's money. That Bored Ape was meant to star in an upcoming TV show Green is developing, but because IP rights to the cartoon ape are contingent on owning the…

Finally finished all three Yellowstone seasons on Peacock? We have you covered -- assuming you're still holding onto that subscription (I mean, season 4 is going to arrive eventually).Peacock's catalog offers tons of original TV programming on top of past and current shows from NBC. The streaming service has a free tier that offers access to select movies…

My fellow parents, I'm going to start by saying what we're all thinking: Kids are the worst. Engaging with them, talking to them, getting them to focus on anything for single second. Sometimes -- and I'm not judging -- you just need to sit them in front of the TV so you can find somewhere safe…

Imagine a winged dinosaur the size of a school bus casting a massive shadow over you as it swoops down to earth. Fossils of such a beast, dubbed the "dragon of death," have been unearthed by scientists in the Andes mountains region of Argentina, according to a report by Reuters. The ancient flying reptiles roamed the skies…