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11 articles from CBC - Technology & Science News
PM, health officials warn Canadians against believing COVID-19 'internment camps' disinformation
Canadians will not be forced into COVID-19 internment or containment camps, a spokesperson for Health Minister Patty Hajdu said Tuesday — taking aim at a disinformation campaign that has been circulating on social media for...
U.S. Justice Department files antitrust lawsuit against Google
The United States Justice Department filed a lawsuit Tuesday alleging that Google has been abusing its dominance in online search to stifle competition and harm...
Thermal-imaging drone footage of police response to shooting at homeless camp raises privacy concerns
The footage, obtained by CBC News through a freedom of information request, shows Vancouver police officers entering tents as they search Oppenheimer Park after the December 2019...
Kitchener YouTuber and engineer creates hyper-realistic lightsaber prototype
Kitchener based YouTuber and engineer James Hobson spent hundreds of hours with his team at Hacksmith Industries to create a working hyper-realistic lightsaber that extends and...
Peruvian archeologists unveil giant cat carved into Nazca Lines UNESCO site
Peruvian archaeologists have uncovered a 37-metre-long (120-foot-long) cat etching in a little-explored area of the country's celebrated Nazca Lines UNESCO heritage site, home to hundreds of gigantic geoglyphs dating back more than 2,000...
Elon Musk's satellite internet plan gets green light from Canadian regulator
The CRTC has approved an Elon Musk-owned company's application to provide low Earth orbit satellite internet to rural...
Geologist eager to examine 'spectacular' fossilized tracks found on P.E.I.
The recent discovery of a set of fossilized footprints could put P.E.I. on the world stage in the annals of ancient...
Ontario's new blue box plan will recycle more, but it'll cost you more as well, experts say
With the Ontario government proposing a new recycling system that relieves municipal governments of running blue box programs, experts are expecting to see the cost passed on to consumers in the form of higher prices for packaged...
OSIRIS-REx mission to collect asteroid sample to return to Earth thanks to Canadian technology
On Tuesday, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission will make history as it attempts its first collection of material from an asteroid to be returned to Earth in...
Police, conservation officers search for a black bear suspected of killing a llama in Saanich, B.C.
Saanich Police and the B.C. Conservation Service are searching for a black bear which killed a llama on a farm on the 4700 block of West Saanich Road on south Vancouver Island Monday...
'Tyra the T-Rex': World's largest dinosaur receives name for 20th anniversary
The "world's largest dinosaur" in Drumheller just celebrated its 20th birthday by getting a new name: "Tyra."