- CBC - Technology & Science News
- 08/4/17 00:05
Yellowknife Mayor Gordon Van Tighem says he's pushing ahead with his goal to build a scientific "centre of excellence" in the N.W.T. capital.
Yellowknife Mayor Gordon Van Tighem says he's pushing ahead with his goal to build a scientific "centre of excellence" in the N.W.T. capital.
WEDNESDAY 16. APRIL 2008
Researchers who teamed up with Canadian Rangers on a patrol around Ellesmere Island this month say they've found cracks in ice shelves are worse than they originally thought.
U.S. President George W. Bush has announced a new target in the fight against global warming, saying he wants U.S. emissions of greenhouse gases to stop growing by 2025.
The story of NASA changing its estimates on an asteroid colliding with Earth in response to a 13-year-old German boy's science fair entry is not true, NASA said.
More than a third of the residents of Kitchener-Waterloo in southern Ontario have joined a pilot project to test out a more-secure way of making credit and debit card payments, the industry group running the trial said Wednesday.
French media giant Vivendi SA won permission from the European Commission on Wednesday to merge its video game unit with Activision in a $9.85-billion US deal.
TUESDAY 15. APRIL 2008
Stock in Intel Corp., the world's biggest maker of semiconductor chips, rose in after-hours trading Tuesday on the strength of a rosy outlook that topped analysts' expectations.
Comcast Corp., under investigation by U.S. authorities for interfering with the traffic of its internet subscribers, is proposing a "bill of rights and responsibilities" for users of file-sharing technology in an attempt to stave off government regulation.
Hard-drive giant Seagate Technology has filed a lawsuit against STEC Inc., accusing its smaller competitor of infringing on patents.
Deregulation was the constant refrain repeated by Quebecor executives on Tuesday morning, as they appeared before the CRTC panel considering changes to Canada's television broadcasting industry.
A brain researcher at the University of Calgary has won one of the world's most prestigious medical science awards for his work on stem cells in the adult brain.
Extinct ancestors of elephants lived in freshwater swamps and rivers like modern-day hippos, according to a fossil study published Tuesday.
A group of mobile phone industry giants has agreed to keep patent royalties on the next-generation of wireless technology down, paving the way for the introduction of advanced wireless networks and devices.
A study published Monday in the Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences journal suggests that high testosterone levels in the morning in a male financial trader could translate into a bigger-than-normal profit that day.
MONDAY 14. APRIL 2008
An Ottawa scientist has identified what he believes to be the world's largest beaver dam in Wood Buffalo National Park in northern Alberta.
Representatives from U.S.-based Alliant Techsystems Inc. are meeting with government officials Monday to see if the company's proposed $1.3-billion purchase of a part of Canada leading space robotics firm can be salvaged after the government blocked it last week.
Dave Williams, the former astronaut who holds the record for most hours of spacewalking by a Canadian, has landed a new job as the director of a medical robotics centre in Hamilton, Ont.
John Wheeler, who helped invent the theory of nuclear fission and who coined the phrase "black hole," died Sunday at the age of 96.
New Brunswickers will be able to vote in their hometown's municipal elections in May from anywhere in the province.
There have been mixed messages over the last few weeks about federal funding for the Wind Energy Institute of Canada, says its director.
FRIDAY 11. APRIL 2008
Windows is "collapsing" and Microsoft Corp. must make radical changes to the way it does business if it wants to remain viable, a pair of Gartner analysts say.
Alberta's Court of Appeal has ordered a new trial for an Edmonton man aquitted of trying to lure a 12-year-old Ontario girl over the internet into sexual acts.
China has unblocked the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's websites a week after the broadcaster's president formally complained to Chinese officials.
THURSDAY 10. APRIL 2008
O'Leary is perfectly placed to be the home of a centre for climate change research announced in the P.E.I. government's throne speech Friday, says the chair of the community council.
Polar bears in the southern Beaufort Sea are starving as they struggle to adapt to a warming Arctic climate, according to the latest research by a Canadian polar bear expert.