Science & Technology

EDMONTON -- An Alberta Fish and Wildlife officer played the role of cowboy when he wrangled a bull elk whose antlers were entangled in a cable near Grande Prairie. “It was probably wrapped ten to fifteen times around his antlers and had his ear pinned back,” said Fish and Wildlife Officer Cody Bruneau. Two officers…

Continuing humanity's race towards potential deepfake hell, researchers have developed a way of creating 3D models from 2D images using neural networks. The full title of the project is PIFuHD: Multi-Level Pixel-Aligned Implicit Function for High-Resolution 3D Human Digitization and here's some gibberish from the researchers: Recent advances in image-based 3D human shape estimation have…

This is a side by side comparison of what it's like to land an Airbus A320 at Los Angeles airport in real life compared to Microsoft Flight Simulator. It's one of those instances where the simulator looks more realistic than reality. If it wasn't labeled I think most people would have a tough time figuring…

LONDON — The British government has for years hoped that President Donald Trump would give them the post-Brexit trade deal they crave.But Democratic candidate Joe Biden made it clear Wednesday that he will not support any trade deal with London if it endangers peace in Northern Ireland — an issue that has dominated the United…

Sony’s upcoming PlayStation 5 video game console will cost $500 and launch Nov. 12, the company said Wednesday, setting up a holiday battle with Microsoft’s Xbox Series X over whose new console will turn up under more trees this year.Video game fans have been chomping at the bit for the new consoles, and not just…

WASHINGTON — Young voters are backing Joe Biden over President Trump by 20 points or more.They’re down on Trump’s job performance. They’re not fans of Biden, either.And maybe most revealing of all, these voters aren’t monolithic, with men and white younger voters much more supportive of Trump than women and younger voters of color.These are…

WASHINGTON — Former model Amy Dorris alleged in a new interview that President Donald Trump sexually assaulted her at the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York in 1997 by forcing his tongue down her throat and groping her body."He just shoved his tongue down my throat and I was pushing him off. And then…

Another 860,000 people filed for first-time unemployment benefits last week, a slight decline from the previous week amid a sluggish recovery in the labor market.The number of continuing claims, which represents people filing for ongoing benefits, fell by almost 1 million, to 12.6 million, according to new weekly data from the Department of Labor."Economic hardship…

LANSING, Mich. — Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said Wednesday that it is impractical for Michigan to try to enforce coronavirus restrictions at President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign rallies, while also pointing to people’s constitutional rights.Whitmer has expressed safety concerns with several thousand people, many maskless and close together, attending a Trump rally in the Saginaw…

President Donald Trump said he expects to get a report Thursday about Oracle’s bid for the Chinese-owned video-sharing app TikTok and admitted there is no legal path to letting the U.S. Treasury get a cut of the deal — a proposition experts had criticized as unprecedented and possibly illegal.“I’m not prepared to sign off on anything. I…