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6 articles from CBC - Technology & Science News
Commons committee probes Boeing 737 Max crash following damning reports out of U.S., Ethiopia
On the one-year anniversary of an Ethiopian Airlines crash that killed 157 people — including 18 Canadians — MPs are looking to dig deeper into the federal government's decision to approve the Boeing 737 Max as safe to...
Jury deadlocks on espionage charges in CIA 'Vault 7' leaks case
A former CIA software engineer accused of stealing a massive trove of the agency's hacking tools and handing it over to WikiLeaks was convicted of only minor charges Monday, after a jury deadlocked on the more serious espionage charges against...
RCMP says it will limit its use of facial recognition tech — but won't stop using it entirely
The RCMP says it will now only use Clearview AI “in very limited and specific circumstances" as concerns mount about the police force’s use of the controversial facial recognition...
Emissions from power generation take biggest fall since 1990
Global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from the power sector fell by two per cent last year, the biggest fall since at least 1990, owing to reduced coal usage in Europe and the United States, a study showed on...
Business success of paperless papers may signal next step in mainstream news: Don Pittis
Quebec's La Presse and Britain's Independent have proved that the most important thing about a paper is not paper. Could printless broadsheets may be the next media...
Canada needs to address risks of aging IT to fend off threats that come with digital government
Requiring all departments to do a detailed cybersecurity analysis would help address the reality that while digital government has big potential benefits, it also paints a bigger target on Canada's aging federal IT systems, writes Alexander...