As India’s quick-commerce platforms race to deliver everything from groceries to smartphones in minutes, electric mobility startup Yulu has seized the boom, raising $93 million in fresh funding. The Bengaluru‑based startup offers electric two‑wheelers on weekly subscription plans, so delivery drivers can jump straight into the gig economy without buying their own vehicles. With around…
The city is taking a closer look at how and where e-scooters and e-bikes should operate in Edmonton. Councillors heard Tuesday that safety and parking still remain a top concern for Edmontonians, so they’re looking at ways to address that. Those concerns ring a bell for Kyrie Herman and her daughter, as they are part-time…
Object removing fashions have improved sooner than the metrics used to evaluate them. Diffusion erasers now reconstruct shadows, reflections and occluded construction convincingly, but PSNR, SSIM, LPIPS, ReMOVE and CFD incessantly rank their outputs the flawed method. The foundation trigger is structural: erasure is an ill-posed, one-to-many job, so no single floor fact exists to…
New documents show that more than 300,000 acres of land could be transferred to Vancouver Island First Nations, which are currently finalizing treaties. Approximately 30 parcels of Crown land would be given to five First Nations, which are located from Parksville to Victoria. The list includes Hatley Castle, Royal Roads University, waterfront in Victoria, property…
Brad Lightcap, one of the longest-serving executives at OpenAI, is leaving the powerful AI lab to “start something new.” In an internal message that Lightcap shared online Tuesday, the outgoing executive told OpenAI staff that it was “bittersweet to share that I’ll be moving on from OpenAI to start something new.” Lightcap, who joined the…
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Forget the European summer lull: Startups can’t afford to stay still, and Brussels is following suit. In the middle of peak vacation time, the European Commission announced that the Scaleup Europe Fund was fully operational, with investments “expected in the coming weeks.” But its first deal was actually made public the very next day. ICEYE,…
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Global News has learned that one guest has been staying at a former hotel on Granville Street, despite the B.C. government promising to shut it down. The Luugat, now owned by the B.C. government, still has one last resident — Ryan Donnelly. He was also still living…
In a significant milestone for Google, CEO Sundar Pichai announced via X that the Gemini app has become one of the company’s fastest-growing products, recently surpassing 1 billion monthly active users. Pichai also noted it was the 14th Google product to hit the 1 billion mark. With this rapid growth, Gemini is keeping pace with…
By Hannah Sangster Global News Posted August 11, 2026 9:44 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Two people are in hospital after a workplace incident in Regina’s downtown. Police arrived on scene along with fire and EMS and found two men injured. They were taken to hospital with what…
