Montreal police dismantled a synthetic drug laboratory in a Griffintown condominium building Wednesday, leading to the arrest of two people and the temporary evacuation of residents from two floors. The operation took place near the intersection of Wellington and Shannon streets and stemmed from a targeted investigation by the Montreal police force’s narcotics division. Police…
Google Research and UNSW Sydney have released GlucoFM, a self-supervised foundation model for continuous glucose monitoring. Its core move is a split. Existing CGM models — CGMformer, GluFormer, CGM-JEPA — encode a glucose trace as one entangled sequence. GlucoFM decomposes it into a slow physiological “state” stream and a transient “event” stream, keeps the observation…
Descrease article font size Increase article font size A wildfire burning north of Castlegar was estimated to have grown to 250 hectares in size on Wednesday afternoon, but that has since been corrected to 116 hectares, as of 8:30 p.m. The Ezra Creek wildfire was discovered on Tuesday, but residents in the area say it…
Meta reached an $18 billion settlement on Wednesday over a lawsuit brought by 29 U.S. states concerning children’s safety. The settlement is historic in scale as Meta agrees with a group of 52 attorneys general to implement sweeping changes to how minors use Instagram and Facebook. The settlement “gives the AGs what they want, which…
All remaining tenants of the Luugat SRO Hotel on Granville Street have now moved out, the Ministry of Housing and Municipal Affairs confirmed to Global News. As of mid-August, B.C. taxpayers were still paying to keep the building open for one remaining resident. The B.C. government promised to close the Luugat by the end of…
Dan Osborn was ending up his fourth city corridor final Sunday, he says, when a “hardcore MAGA” man approached him. Osborn, who’s operating for the US Senate in Nebraska as an unbiased against Republican incumbent Pete Ricketts, stated that he and the person didn’t have a lot frequent floor—at first. “Then I stated, ‘Hey, what’s…
The City of Calgary is seeking a third party to explore the potential of a new outdoor stadium as questions continue over the future of McMahon Stadium. Global News has learned the City of Calgary has been seeking bids on a pair of contracts for a firm “assess the feasibility and planning of a proposed…
Amazon and Nvidia just got a lot closer. The two companies announced Wednesday an expanded partnership that includes a deal to add another 2 million Nvidia GPU chips to Amazon’s data centers. These GPUs, which are designed to handle the heavy compute demands of training and running AI models, include Nvidia Blackwell Ultra, Rubin, and…
Dhyan Jeny Enterprises Ltd. pleaded guilty in Moose Jaw Provincial Court on Aug. 11 to charging a foreign worker for employment making the first conviction under the Saskatchewan Foreign Worker Recruitment and Immigration Services Act (FWRISA). While this is the first conviction under the legislation, some experts say it is one example of a larger…
Intuition, a startup based solely final yr and helmed by a 23-year-old, has managed to journey the wave of AI enthusiasm towards a gargantuan valuation over the course of the summer season. The corporate, which presents an AI assistant that has impressed enthusiasm amongst its early customers, told the Wall Avenue Journal on Wednesday that…
