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Police no longer need court approval to keep data from seized phones and computers, B.C. judge rules
Police no longer need a judge’s permission to keep holding data copied from seized phones and computers, a B.C. Supreme Court judge has ruled. That applies even to data that was already under court supervision before the law changed this
B.C. judge certifies class action alleging Google paid Apple to stay out of search
A B.C. Supreme Court judge has certified a class action against Apple that alleges the company was paid to stay out of the search engine business, letting Google overcharge Canadian advertisers. The proposed class covers every Canadian resident who bought
Less rain, worse floods: Study finds a quarter of urban land faces drier climate but fiercer downpours
A warming climate could leave some cities with less rain overall but worse floods, according to a new study from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The researchers found that about a quarter of the world’s urban land is on track
Health Canada finds bacteria in injectable peptides sold online, seizes 11,400 vials
Health Canada is warning Canadians not to buy or inject unauthorized peptide drugs sold online, after lab tests found bacteria in vials linked to a Chinese supplier. The department says it seized more than 11,400 vials and shut down two
Elections Canada’s Perrault urges AI labels, chatbot sourcing rules to protect voters
Canada’s chief electoral officer, Stéphane Perrault, has asked MPs to make transparency the top priority as artificial intelligence reshapes how voters find and judge political information. The recommendations include mandatory labels on AI-generated election content and a rule that chatbots
Mapped: Where Pete Fry beat Ken Sim, and where Sim held on
Pete Fry won Vancouver’s mayoralty on Oct. 17 by more than 31,000 votes, but the city did not vote as one. Results from all 144 in-person voting places show a city split roughly in two. Fry ran up large margins
Light-powered AI: Tokyo researchers cut computation with a new way to train optical hardware
Researchers in Japan have demonstrated a way to run AI on hardware that computes with light instead of electricity, using a simplified training method they say cuts the amount of computation needed. The work, by a team at the University
Swapping dairy for unfortified plant-based alternatives could leave people short on iodine, study finds
Swapping even part of the milk, yogurt and cheese in your diet for unfortified plant-based alternatives could leave you short of key nutrients, especially iodine, according to a U.K. modelling study published in The Lancet Planetary Health. Researchers at the
Ultrasound catches a disappearing English ‘r’ in the act
Linguists have used ultrasound, the same technology used to scan babies in the womb, to watch a centuries-old change in English pronunciation happening inside people’s mouths. Researchers at Lancaster University in England studied speakers from Blackburn, Lancashire, one of the
What makes a ‘beautiful’ classical voice? Judges reward vibrato, resonance and ring, not loudness
What makes judges love a classical singer’s voice? A study from Keio University in Japan suggests it comes down to vibrato, resonance, expressiveness, and a particular “ring” in the voice. Singing louder and hitting every note in tune made less
