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14 articles from CBC - Technology & Science News
Check out the world's tiniest gingerbread house — and you'll never guess what it's on top of
Travis Casagrande's microscopic creation is a home for the holidays — a gingerbread house complete with a wreath over the door, a cheery brick chimney, Christmas tree details carved into the walls and a patriotic Canadian flag...
'Let there be light': Solar power means church no longer pays a power bill
Thanks to 140 solar panels, installed a year ago, those who worship at Dartmouth, N.S.'s Woodlawn United Church can now put a dollar figure on just how good that light was for the congregation last...
Prairie insurance and financial brokerage failed to disclose ransomware attack
A Manitoba-based insurance and financial brokerage catering to clients across the Prairies has fallen victim to a ransomware attack that it hasn't publicly...
Police unfazed by app feature pinpointing speed traps
Ontario police forces aren't concerned by the fact that drivers can use navigation apps to pinpoint and broadcast their location to other...
Miawpukek First Nation to study genetic links with ancient Beothuk
A DNA testing project will look for possible descendants of the ancient Indigenous people, who have long been thought to be...
Satellite launches to study planets in other solar systems
A European spacecraft launched from South America Wednesday on a three-year mission to study planets in other solar systems and determine if any are capable of sustaining...
'You just want to crawl into a corner and disappear': How this tech worker was duped by a gift card scam
Dennis Thisner works at a tech company, but that didn't protect him from a scammer who impersonated his boss in an email and walked away with...
Fish boom prompts energy conglomerate to spend $14.5M to bury subsea cables
The parent company of Nova Scotia Power disclosed this week to the Utility and Review Board that it spent almost $14,492,000 this summer to bury its Maritime Link cables lying on the floor of the Cabot Strait between Newfoundland and Cape...
Makers of ring-removal gadget aim to slide into global market
Ring Rescue, a device that was once a Dalhousie University project, was instantly sold out when the company launched in August. Now, the founders have their sites set on the international...
N.S. won't protect land with 'globally rare' ecosystem that company eyes for golf resort
The Nova Scotia government quietly removed the pending protected land status from Owls Head provincial park last March. A company is looking to build two or three golf courses on the Eastern Shore...
Canada needs anti-aircraft tech for the modern battlefield, says army commander
The audacious assault on Saudi Arabia's Abqaiq refinery and the Khurais oil field last September sent shivers down the spines of some Canadian military planners - because it exposed how vulnerable Canadian soldiers would be to battlefield attacks from the...
Oil pumpjacks and the changing Alberta landscape
The oil producing equipment is not going extinct like the traditional grain elevator, but just as technology changed how agriculture companies built their terminals, innovation is altering the number, size and placement of...
Australia experiences hottest day on record — and it's expected to intensify
Australia experienced its hottest day on record and temperatures are expected to soar even higher as heatwave conditions envelop most of the...
Calgary police investigate Twitch video that shows woman slap, bite child while playing Fortnite
Calgary police are investigating a video posted to live-streaming website Twitch that appears to show a woman abusing a...