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An AI chatbot that nudges patients to book cancer screening can do more harm than good if it comes across as pushy, impersonal or evasive about being a machine, according to new research from the University of Surrey. The study…
Vancouver, put on your dancing shoes and get ready to learn some moves this summer! Rueda de la Vida, the dance community behind the long-running Sunday classes on West 6th, is running free salsa and bachata sessions all season, both…
A team of Finnish scientists has shown that bumble bees can work out how to solve a problem they have never seen before, improvising a way to reach a reward with no training to guide them. The finding, published this…
Vancouver's Latin dance scene is offering something a little different this Sunday: a free beginner Kizomba class, and we've got everything you need to show up and find your groove! Instructor Jeremy is hosting an introductory session at ANOMALY Dance…
Vancouver's favourite Latin dance community wants to teach you how to dance salsa and bachata for free this Sunday, and we've got everything you need to show up and hit the floor! Rueda de la Vida runs free beginner classes…
By Rohana Rezel I'm running the ongoing AI Coding Contest where I pit major language models against each other in real-time programming tasks with objective scoring. Day 12 was the Word Gem Puzzle . Ten models entered. The results were…
By Rohana Rezel OpenAI, the company most responsible for convincing the world that human creativity is obsolete, has been quietly hiring human writers, designers, and editors at salaries north of $200,000. 1 Meanwhile it shut down its Sora consumer app,…
By Rohana Rezel The pitch is seductive. Point an AI agent at your infrastructure, give it a task, walk away. No tickets, no on-call rotations, no waiting for an engineer to get around to it. The agent reads the codebase,…
By Rohana Rezel I've been running an ongoing AI coding contest, pitting six frontier LLMs against each other in live programming challenges. Each challenge works the same way: I give all six models an identical prompt spec describing a programming…
Pierre Poilievre spent April 2026 denouncing floor crossers as politicians who “betrayed the people who voted for them.” Fourteen years earlier, when Parliament had a straightforward chance to require those politicians to face those voters, he voted no. The crossings…