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Google can keep Chrome but needs to give up some data, judge rules in antitrust case
03 Sep 2025
The ruling orders the company to share some of its prized data with competitors — a big win for artificial intelligence companies in particular that seek to overtake Google's web searching dominance.
York police confirm 46-year-old killed in Vaughan home invasion died by gunfire
03 Sep 2025
In an update Wednesday on several recent violent crimes in York Region, police said Abdul Aleem Farooqi confronted home invaders and was fatally shot. Political leaders and family friends had previous
Alberta girl awarded damages in lawsuit over infection leading to quadruple amputation
03 Sep 2025
The Alberta girl, identified in a court decision only by the initials KB, suffered irreversible damage to her limbs as a baby due to complications from a bacterial infection. Doctors had to amputate h
Why N.S. might ban social media for some children
03 Sep 2025
Screen time for kids in Nova Scotia could soon look different as social media might be banned for children under 16. CBC’s Puneet Nijjar on why advocates and parents are calling for the age restriction.
At 86 she started an art gallery. Now almost 98, she's not stopping any time soon
03 Sep 2025
A Londoner about to celebrate her 98th birthday, Audrey Cooper continues to run the Art With Panache Gallery in downtown London.
After 'horrendous' smash-and-grab robbery, Hamilton jeweller invests in new defence — fog
03 Sep 2025
Months after robbers raided Ancaster Jewellers, held the owner at gunpoint and beat him with a hammer, he says he's stepped up security in a new way.
Assembly of First Nations annual general assembly begins in Winnipeg
03 Sep 2025
First Nations chiefs and delegates from across the country are gathering in Winnipeg for the Assembly of First Nations annual general assembly starting Wednesday.
How Thunder Bay, Ont., climbers rescued a Tennessee hunter's dog, who fell off a cliff
03 Sep 2025
After being stranded on a cliffside for two nights, Boomer the dog has been reunited with his owner — who has left northwestern Ontario with a newfound appreciation of Thunder Bay, Ont.'s climbing com
Back to school looks different for displaced families, communities hit by Sask. wildfires
03 Sep 2025
Denare Beach kids typically attend school in nearby Creighton. The K-12 school there brought in extra counsellors and offered staff trauma-informed training to help students affected by wildfires.
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Typewriters, the office machines that preceded computers
By Kiron Kasbekar | 10 Apr 2025
You see office tables today equipped with desktop computers or laptops. But think of the 1970s, and what would you have been seeing?
Wishful thinking about cars
By Kiron Kasbekar | 05 Apr 2025
Donald Trump may be many things, but a good economist he is not. Accustomed to dictating terms to people he has worked with,
The history of safety glass
By Kiron Kasbekar | 26 Mar 2025
You probably already knew that the world’s VIPs move around in cars with bullet-proof glass windscreen and windows. But did you know that ‘bulletproof glass’ is not really bulletproof?
German silver: used in cutlery, music, electricals - but it’s not silver
By Kiron Kasbekar | 20 Mar 2025
This material, which was first developed in China, not Germany, and is an alloy of copper, nickel and zinc, has lost its sheen in home uses, but finds favor in electrical engineering.
Pioneers – the Wrights and Glenn Curtiss launched the aircraft industry
By Kiron Kasbekar | 17 Mar 2025
First Orville and Wilbur Wright flew their plane, the ‘Wright Flyer’, from near a small town called Kitty Hawk. Then Glenn Curtiss built planes with a very different system of controls, which has lasted until now.
What do aircraft have in common with bicycles and motorcycles?
By Kiron Kasbekar | 17 Mar 2025
From chains and sprockets to direct drives—If someone asked you what aircraft have in common with bicycles and motorcycles, how would you respond?
Radar’s ancestors: From sound mirrors to modern detection technology
By Kiron Kasbekar | 11 Mar 2025
Radar has become a well-settled technology today, especially in the field of navigation.
Nokia Bell Labs: innovations in communication, computing, technology
By Omar Almeida | 08 Mar 2025
Bell Laboratories, or Bell labs, which has now become Nokia Bell Labs, is one of the most renowned research and development organizations in the history of science and technology.
Company story – Quaker Oats
By Kiron Kasbekar | 08 Mar 2024
Quaker Oats is a company whose products I remember from my childhood days. Years before a foreign exchange crisis caused the Indian government to impose curbs on consumer product imports, we used to see a host of foreign brands in the Indian market. Including Quaker Oats, which I remember eating when I was a child, and which has been available for the past two decades or more.
