Technology

Chris Stokel-Walker Business Jun 3, 2023 7:00 AM Bluesky’s Custom Algorithms Could Be the Future of Social Media The option to choose the algorithms that power your feed is taking off on Bluesky—and there’s a good chance it will catch on elsewhere too. Illustration: Eugene Mymrin/Getty Images Social media algorithms …

Canada's boreal forest will look different in the years to come. Scientists say the changing climate and increased severity of wildfires are altering their makeup. Increased severity of wildfires and dryer, warmer weather means different species are growing back In 2015, scientist Ellen Whitman set out on a visit to …

Will Knight Business Jun 1, 2023 12:00 PM They Plugged GPT-4 Into Minecraft—and Unearthed New Potential for AI The bot plays the video game by tapping the text generator to pick up new skills, suggesting that the tech behind ChatGPT could automate many workplace tasks. Courtesy of Microsoft The technology …

Amanda Hoover Business Jun 1, 2023 7:00 AM An Eating Disorder Chatbot Is Suspended for Giving Harmful Advice A nonprofit that helps people with body image problems closed its human-run helpline. The chatbot that remained suggested things like losing weight. Illustration: Andrei Akushevich/Getty Images A nonprofit has suspended the use …

Scientists last year finished the momentous task of completely mapping the human genome. But that map was based on just a few individuals and didn't capture the diversity of the human population. Now, scientists have released a more diverse reference genome. New 'pangenome' based on DNA of people from Africa, …

Scientists last year finished the momentous task of completely mapping the human genome. But that map was based on just a few individuals and didn't capture the diversity of the human population. Now, scientists have released a more diverse reference genome. New 'pangenome' based on DNA of people from Africa, …

The discovery of another exoplanet in a binary star system more than 1,000 light years away may lead to discoveries of many more planets in these cosmic neighbourhoods first popularized by Star Wars. Exoplanet ‘BEBOP-1c’ orbits a binary star system A new discovery of a faraway planet, published today in …

A Saskatoon teenager is off to Japan for the world's most prestigious youth math competition. While taking the rest of his high school classes, Haozhe Yang moved on to university-level math. University of Saskatchewan math professor Steven Rayan says Yang scored a final mark of 100 per cent in a …

Alex Christian Business Jun 1, 2023 7:00 AM This AI Scouting Platform Puts Soccer Talent Spotters Everywhere A young player hoping to be spotted by a Premier League club typically relies on luck as much as talent, but artificial intelligence could change all that. Photograph: Paul Taylor/Getty Images It was …

Nova Scotia’s record-breaking fires came as a shock in a region known for relatively mild and wet weather. But rather than being an anomaly, they are a sign of things to come for Atlantic Canada, experts say. Experts identify 3 reasons why fires are going to get more intense and …