A wildfire fanned by 115 kilometre per hour winds razed homes along the west side of British Columbia’s Okanagan Lake, forcing many residents to escape to safety. Video and photos posted online show flames in the night sky, and later, the charred remains of buildings along the northern end of the lake, near Vernon. The…
West Indies batter Brandon King scored quickly at the start on August 02, 2026. — AFP Rain shortens play on opening day of the second Test in Trinidad. Greaves survives a dropped catch after passing his half-century. Chase stands unbeaten on 36 in 66-run partnership with Greaves. PORT OF SPAIN: Justin Greaves made an unbeaten…
The worldwide reminiscence chip scarcity is affecting the provision of Apple’s hottest Mac, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. Gurman stated the scarcity — attributable to the calls for of chip-hungry AI corporations — had already affected Apple’s extra area of interest computer systems, the Mac mini and Mac Studio. But it surely appears the corporate…
The Saskatchewan Government is stepping in to keep a police-run Human Trafficking Response Team (HTRT) operating after the federal government’s support agreement expired. The funding comes as a big relief for the Saskatoon Police Service (SPS), which had been paying out of its own pocket to keep the service afloat over the last five months….
Thinking Machines Lab has released Inkling-Small, an open weights Mixture-of-Experts model with 276B total parameters and 12B active. That is about a quarter the size of Inkling, which carries 975B total and 41B active parameters. The model was trained on NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 systems. It reasons natively over text, images and audio. The context window…
More than 5,000 people across British Columbia are estimated to have been put under evacuation orders in the last 24 hours as the number of active wildfires surged past 100. “We are currently in a complex and rapidly evolving emergency response here in B.C.,” said Kevin Dunbar, executive director of provincial response and recovery operations….
An aerial view ahead of the inauguration ceremony of the newly renovated National Bank Stadium in Karachi. — Facebook/@PakistanCricketBoard/File LAHORE: Karachi is unlikely to host Pakistan’s upcoming home series against Sri Lanka and the tri-nation ODI tournament also featuring England, with Lahore and Rawalpindi emerging as the frontrunners to stage the matches, sources said on…
In this tutorial, we design a complete GeoAI workflow for extracting building footprints from high-resolution NAIP aerial imagery. We begin by configuring the geospatial deep learning environment, downloading raster imagery and vector labels, and inspecting their spatial properties before generating georeferenced image chips and segmentation masks. We then train a U-Net model with a ResNet-34…
Research has shown the many benefits people gain while working with therapy dogs, but have you ever stopped to wonder what this work is like from the dog’s perspective? At the Pawsitive Connections Lab at the University of Saskatchewan, Dr. Colleen Dell is flipping the script and uncovering how dogs feel while performing their therapy…
Pakistan handed Test debuts to fast bowler Ubaid Shah and middle-order batter Awais Zafar. Pakistan handed Test debuts to fast bowler Ubaid Shah and middle-order batter Awais Zafar as they made four changes for the second and final Test against West Indies at Queen’s Park Oval in Trinidad on Sunday, with the hosts winning the…
