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Fans around the world queue up in long lines for the highly anticipated Nintendo Switch 2 launch

Eager customers lined up outside electronics stores in Tokyo hours in advance to collect their pre-ordered Nintendo Switch 2 video game consoles.

New Zealand PM floats privacy laws after staffer accused of filming women

New Zealand’s prime minister floated new privacy laws on Thursday after his own press secretary was allegedly caught taping sex workers without consent.

Google’s DeepMind CEO says there are bigger risks to worry about than AI taking our jobs

Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google’s AI research arm DeepMind and a Nobel Prize laureate, isn’t too worried about an AI “jobpocalypse.”

Researchers discover vertical ball drop at University of Waterloo

Balls usually roll horizontally but researchers at the University of Waterloo have done it on a vertical surface without applying any external force.

Reddit’s services restored after global outage that affected thousands

Social media platform Reddit was back up after an outage that affected nearly 31,000 users on Tuesday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.

Meta becomes the latest big tech company turning to nuclear power for its AI needs

Meta has cut a 20-year deal to secure nuclear power to help meet surging demand for artificial intelligence and other computing needs at Facebook’s parent company.

An accidental discovery at a planetarium opens a window into the universe’s inner workings

Scientists have unlocked one of the solar system’s many secrets from an unexpected source: a planetarium show opening to the public on Monday.

A long-running experiment finds a tiny particle is still acting weird

Final results from a long-running U.S.-based experiment announced Tuesday show a tiny particle continues to act strangely -- but that’s still good news for the laws of physics as we know them.

When to see the Strawberry Moon in June

A Strawberry Moon will be visible across Canada on June 10 and 11.

Milky Way may not be destroyed in galactic smash-up after all

The Milky Way may not have a catastrophic collision with another huge galaxy as has been predicted, computer simulations revealed Monday, giving our home galaxy a coin-flip chance of avoiding destruction.

Musk’s Neuralink raises US$650 million in latest funding as clinical trials begin

Elon Musk’s Neuralink said on Monday that it had raised US$650 million in its latest funding round as its brain implant deviceenters clinical trials.

Archeologists find new evidence of ancient slave labour in southern Iraq

A system of thousands of ridges and canals across a floodplain in southern Iraq has long been believed to be the remnant of a massive agricultural system built by slave labour.

Most of Canada could see northern lights on Monday night

The northern lights could be visible across most of Canada on Monday night, including nearly all of B.C., Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba.

Researchers urge caution when using ChatGPT to self-diagnose illnesses

As Canadians increasingly turn to artificial intelligence for quick answers about health problems, a new study warns relying on tools like ChatGPT for self-diagnosis could be risky.

The face isn’t real, but her story is: Why W5 used AI on an interview with a rape survivor

W5 explains why they used AI to digitally reconstruct faces of rape survivors in their documentary, Sleeping With the Enemy, that puts the spotlight on a global online network of men who secretly drug, rape, film and share videos of their unsuspecting wives and intimate partners.