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Margaret Hamilton, the groundbreaking researcher who helped create the field of software engineering and whose code helped land NASA’s Apollo astronauts on the moon to win the 20th century space race, has died. She was 90.
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Margaret Hamilton, whose software helped land Apollo astronauts on the moon, has died | CNN
The groundbreaking researcher who helped create the field of software engineering and whose code helped land NASA win the 20th century space race, has died at 90.
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Curiosity landed in 2012 in Gale Crater near the Martian equator.
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NASA's Curiosity rover takes striking image of dawn on Mars | CBC News
NASA has released a striking image of dawn on the Martian surface taken by its Curiosity rover, showing sunlight bathing ‌jagged crags formed billions of years ago as the car-sized vehicle continues t...
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An Ontario-based company that’s building its own rockets says its first satellite in orbit is working well after hitching a ride on an American rocket.
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Reaching new heights. Canadian company’s first satellite exceeds expectations
An Ontario-based company that’s building its own rockets says its first satellite in orbit is working well after hitching a ride on an American rocket.
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In a cosmic first, scientists say they have detected a planet that may have formed from the burned remains of its dead host star.
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‘Phoenix planet’ may have formed from a dead star’s ashes | CNN
A second-generation planet might be orbiting a white dwarf, in an astronomy first, according to new research.
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You see how this looks... right? (Primetime Parody) | This Hour Has 22 Minutes
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Study calls for public health action on kids' screen time
Excessive screen time is taking a toll on young people's health, according to a major new study. Researchers warn it's linked to anxiety, depression and poor sleep. They're urging governments to inter...
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This cookie was made from a water bottle | The Moment
Lahiru Jayakody, a microbiology professor at Southern Illinois University, and his PhD student, Sandhya Jayasekara, tell The National about the moment they processed the chemicals in plastic water bot...
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The Wikimedia Foundation, which operates the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, says that heavy traffic from OpenAI rogue agents was possibly tied to disruption that its data service experienced in May.
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OpenAI rogue agent possibly behind Wikipedia disruption in May, operator says - National | Globalnews.ca
Wikimedia also said that the OpenAI agents made unauthorized edits to Wikimedia wiki sites, including "potentially malicious edits" to a citation tool.
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Norway's government is proposing parliament enact a temporary ban on AI glasses in some places.
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Norway seeks temporary ban on smart glasses | CBC News
Norwegian authorities say a ban on the use of smart glasses could apply to places where "privacy is particularly important," like health-care facilities or fitness centres with changing rooms and show...
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A trip to the park. A day at the beach. A workout session at the gym. All in public spaces where smart glasses can snap photos, record conversations or stream video online — without people in the line of their lenses and microphones knowing about it.
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Privacy concerns put smart glasses under scrutiny as Norway seeks temporary ban
A trip to the park. A day at the beach. A workout session at the gym. All in public spaces where smart glasses can snap photos, record conversations or stream video online — without people in the line...
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A 16-year-old boy was rescued from steep mountainous terrain in the B.C. backcountry on Saturday after Claude AI guided him to the wrong location, according to North Shore Rescue.
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Teenager rescued from B.C.’s ‘Widowmaker’ after getting stranded using AI instructions
A 16-year-old boy was rescued from steep mountainous terrain in the B.C. backcountry on Saturday after Claude AI guided him to the wrong location, according to North Shore Rescue.
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Air Force Secretary Troy Meink made headlines recently by confirming the United States has deployed weapons in space. He did not, however, detail what the weapons were, how they work or if they were targeting other objects in space.
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Lack of transparency in what space weapons nations are pursuing and even on what's already in orbit
Air Force Secretary Troy Meink made headlines recently by confirming the United States has deployed weapons in space. He did not, however, detail what the weapons were, how they work or if they were t...
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New study shows link between “doomscrolling” and negative health effects
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Wearable air quality warning vest shines light on pollution-related deaths
A York University computational researcher and artist has invented a vest loaded with colour-coded sensors indicating air quality levels in the wearer's vicinity, part of a project to raise awareness ...
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Can AI save the planet before it wrecks it
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Microsoft unveiled on Wednesday an AI coding model that can run directly on personal computers and new security technology to prevent AI agents from accessing data without permission, challenging Apple’s push to bring more AI into personal devices.
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Microsoft brings more AI to PCs as it challenges Apple
Microsoft unveiled an AI coding model that can run directly on personal computers and new security technology to prevent AI agents from accessing data.
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Artificial intelligence technology is being used to create sexualized fake media of children to extort them for money, according to a national tipline.
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Teens are being extorted for money with AI-generated deepfakes: tipline
Artificial intelligence technology is being used to create sexualized fake media of children to extort them for money, according to a national tipline.
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Some of the guardrails that OpenAI included in its ChatGPT for Teens product don’t work as intended and the chatbot poses an “unacceptable risk” to children, according to a report Wednesday by Common Sense Media.
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Some guardrails on ChatGPT for Teens don't work as promised, watchdog group says
Some of the guardrails that OpenAI included in its ChatGPT for Teens product don’t work as intended and the chatbot poses an “unacceptable risk” to children, according to a report Wednesday by Common ...
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The U.S. government is suspending Microsoft, Adobe and several large IT firms from a program that allows skilled foreign workers to gain permanent residency, senior U.S. officials announced on Thursday, citing alleged fraud, and as part of an effort to push companies to hire more Americans.
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U.S. freezes Microsoft, Adobe, Infosys green-card applications over alleged fraud
U.S. Vice-President JD Vance said that the federal government was suspending skilled foreign workers to gain permanent residency, citing alleged fraud.
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AI executives are betting big on biology. They say their large language models that have already dramatically changed the fields of coding and software development and mathematics can upend biological research in the same way.
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What to know about Anthropic’s ‘Claude-led’ biological discovery — and why scientists aren’t convinced | CNN
Anthropic’s claim its AI agents discovered an unusual pattern in viral DNA similar to what’s seen in the gene-editing tool CRISPR Cas-9 has set off a wave of skepticism and controversy. Here’s what to...
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Google clearing land to build India's largest data centre
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Carson, 76, has previously won several prestigious literary prizes.
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Canadian Anne Carson awarded Nobel Prize in Literature | CBC News
The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded Thursday to Canadian poet and essayist Anne Carson for her "bold and inventive oeuvre."
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Canadian Anne Carson wins Nobel Prize in Literature
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How Anne Carson and Rheostatics united for album The Great Lakes Suite
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Scientists Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg ‌Nagel won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or ​Medicine for "discoveries concerning light-gated ​ion channels and optogenetics," the award-giving body ​said Monday in Stockholm.
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German, U.S. scientists win Nobel in medicine for advancements in optogenetics | CBC News
Scientists Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg ‌Nagel won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or ​Medicine for "discoveries concerning light-gated ​ion channels and optogenetics," the award-givin...
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The Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded Monday to three scientists whose work led to a tool that uses light to help unravel how the brain works.
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Nobel medicine prize goes to 3 scientists for research into brain activity
The Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded Monday to three scientists whose work led to a tool that uses light to help unravel how the brain works.
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Optogenetics: 3 researchers win Nobel Prize in medicine for brain research
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The 2026 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to three scientists – Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel – for their work developing a technique to decode the inner workings of the brain.
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Nobel Prize in medicine awarded to trio for technique that helps decode mysteries of the brain | CNN
The 2026 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to three scientists – Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel – for their work developing a technique to decode the inner workin...
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Henri Kagan, Kenso Soai credited for advancements that help in design of pharmaceuticals.
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French, Japanese scientists share Nobel Prize in Chemistry | CBC News
Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday for their discovery of non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis.
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Francis Halzen helped develop the IceCube Neutrino Observatory in Antarctica.
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Francis Halzen, Belgian physicist based in U.S., awarded Nobel prize for pioneering work on neutrinos | CBC News
Belgian American particle physicist Francis Halzen was announced as the winner of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday in Stockholm.
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The 2026 Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to Francis Halzen, a pioneering Belgian astrophysicist whose work developing a massive observatory in Antarctica to detect “ghostly” cosmic particles laid the foundations for an “entirely new type of astronomy.”
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Nobel Prize in physics awarded to Francis Halzen for his work detecting ‘ghostly’ cosmic particles | CNN
The 2026 Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to Francis Halzen, a pioneering Belgian astrophysicist whose work developing a massive observatory in Antarctica to detect “ghostly” cosmic particles l...
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Nobel Prize awarded to physicist using massive ice cube to detect 'ghost particles' - The World from PRX
Francis Halzen, a Belgian-born scientist, has won this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics for “decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astro...
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The Plan International charity said Monday that global warming has increased the risk of child marriages, teenage pregnancies and violence against girls.
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NGO says climate change driving child marriages and teen pregnancies
The Plan International charity said Monday that global warming has increased the risk of child marriages, teenage pregnancies and violence against girls.
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Nolo has changed from a strong hurricane to a typhoon after it crossed the international date line.
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Nolo changes from a hurricane to a typhoon after crossing the international date line
Nolo has changed from a strong hurricane to a typhoon after it crossed the international date line.
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The Kelvin wave along B.C. may be 'strongest El Niño we've ever seen’ | Hanomansing Live
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The Kelvin wave along B.C. may be 'strongest El Niño we've ever seen’ | Hanomansing Live
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Tropical Storm Isaias formed Wednesday in the warm waters off eastern Mexico and forecasters predicted it will quickly strengthen into the first hurricane of the Atlantic season before striking the U.S. Gulf Coast later in the week.
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Isaias expected to become hurricane before hitting U.S. Gulf Coast, forecasters say | CBC News
Tropical Storm Isaias formed Wednesday in the warm waters off eastern Mexico and forecasters predicted it will quickly strengthen into the first hurricane of the Atlantic season before striking the U....
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Forecasters say Tropical Storm Isaias is gaining strength off eastern Mexico and should become the first hurricane of the Atlantic season before it strikes the U.S. Gulf Coast later in the week.
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Tropical Storm Isaias is forecast to strike the U.S. Gulf Coast as a hurricane
Forecasters say Tropical Storm Isaias is gaining strength off eastern Mexico and should become the first hurricane of the Atlantic season before it strikes the U.S. Gulf Coast later in the week.
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Isaias becomes 1st hurricane of Atlantic hurricane season
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This year’s El Niño will intensify before peaking in December and is nearly 100% certain to last until February 2027, the World Meteorological Organization said in its monthly climate bulletin on Thursday, with sea surface temperatures set to break records.
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UN weather body says El Niño set to intensify and last until February 2027
This year’s El Niño will intensify before peaking in December and is nearly 100% certain to last until February 2027, the World Meteorological Organization said in its monthly climate bulletin on Thur...
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A pair of kittens gazed up through the aquarium’s shimmering blue waters as a (relatively) enormous fish passed overhead. One kitten stared transfixed through the glass while the other, unfazed, was more interested in darting around playfully.
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‘The kittens just get so excited:’ Orphaned cats meet sharks and stingrays on an aquarium field trip
A pair of kittens gazed up through the aquarium’s shimmering blue waters as a (relatively) enormous fish passed overhead. One kitten stared transfixed through the glass while the other, unfazed, was m...
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A chimpanzee with a taste for pineapple had to make a choice: grab the fruit or leave it for a friend.
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Chimpanzee friendships may come with an unwritten rule
Chimpanzees are less likely to steal pineapple from friends than from non-friends, according to a new study. Researchers say the findings offer clues about how friendship, expectations and emotional r...
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An uninhabited volcanic island in the Southern Ocean used to be home to the largest penguin colony in the world — but not anymore. Scientists have discovered the staggering loss of more than half a million chinstrap penguins from the isolated outcrop.
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This island was home to the planet’s largest penguin colony. Here’s why it just lost that title
An uninhabited volcanic island in the Southern Ocean used to be home to the largest penguin colony in the world — but not anymore. Scientists have discovered the staggering loss of more than half a mi...
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Once a magnet for summer skiers and cherished by generations as a symbol of Slovenia’s Alpine heritage, one of the country’s last glaciers has dwindled to a few patches of ice that researchers say could disappear within days.
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Slovenian glacier could disappear in days, researchers say
Once a magnet for summer skiers and cherished by generations as a symbol of Slovenia’s Alpine heritage, one of the country’s last glaciers has dwindled to a few patches of ice that researchers say cou...
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The croc family tree may be getting a new branch. Analyzing fossilized remains discovered in the same bedrock that built the Great Sphinx, paleontologists newly identified a crocodilian species that once roamed a shallow sea in what’s now Egypt about 45 million years ago.
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Ancient crocodile species discovered in the same stone that built the Great Sphinx | CNN
Scientists say they have identified an extinct crocodile species from about 45 million years ago in the limestone formation used to sculpt the Great Sphinx of Giza.
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Forensic examination of human remains found around the funerary complexes of Ancient Egyptian kings has uncovered evidence that they belonged to servants who were sacrificed when the monarchs died, according to a new study.
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Ancient Egyptians sacrificed servants when kings died, forensic tests show | CNN
Forensic examination of human remains found around the funerary complexes of Ancient Egyptian kings has uncovered evidence that they belonged to servants who were sacrificed when the monarchs died, ac...
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Hollywood star also featured opposite Cary Grant in North by Northwest.
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Eva Marie Saint, star of North by Northwest and On the Waterfront, dead at 102 | CBC News
Eva Marie Saint, the pale, willowy actor who won an Academy Award for her first movie, On the Waterfront, and starred opposite Cary Grant in the Alfred Hitchcock thriller North by Northwest, has died....
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Eva Marie Saint, the graceful blonde who delivered two of the most notable film performances of the 1950s in “On the Waterfront” with Marlon Brando and “North by Northwest” opposite Cary Grant, has died at the age of 102.
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Eva Marie Saint, ‘North by Northwest’ movie star, dies at 102
Eva Marie Saint, who delivered two of the most notable film performances of the '50s in 'On the Waterfront' and 'North by Northwest,' has died at the age of 102.
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Eva Marie Saint, who won an Oscar in 1954 for her first film, On the Waterfront, and starred opposite Hollywood great Cary Grant in the Alfred Hitchcock thriller North by Northwest, has died at the age of 102.
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Eva Marie Saint, Oscar winner and star of ‘On the Waterfront’ dead at 102 - National | Globalnews.ca
Saint's acting debut in 'On the Waterfront' alongside Marlon Brando was one of the most successful in Hollywood history, propelling the then 34-year-old actor to stardom.
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