A steady stream of voters turned out at Parkinson Recreation Centre on Wednesday, the third day of advance voting ahead of Kelowna’s Oct. 17 municipal election. The city says turnout on the first day of advance voting, October 7, was roughly double what it was on the same day during the 2022 election. “On day…
Ricursive Intelligence founders Anna Goldie and Azalia Mirhoseini imagine extra environment friendly AI chip design might assist clear up the compute disaster. The founders took the stage at TechCrunch Disrupt on Wednesday to element how their startup is creating AI that may design chips, be taught from every iteration, and enhance subsequent designs, all with…
The Vancouver Aquatic Centre cannot be rebuilt as a 50-metre pool because of unsettled land claim issues with the city’s First Nations, according to the Park Board Chair. Tom Digby is running for re-election as a Park Board commissioner with the Vancouver Green Party and was the Park Board chair when the decision was made…
This week, Fish Audio released Fish Audio Drama 3. Drama 3 is a text-to-speech model from Fish Audio that takes plain-language acting direction. It is a 35B mixture-of-experts model with about 3B parameters active per token. The weights are on Hugging Face, and the model is also live in the Fish Audio API. For developers,…
By Andrew Kitchen Global News Posted October 14, 2026 8:58 pm Updated October 14, 2026 9:08 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size A motion for information and reporting on Bell’s AI Data Centre’s impacts on Regina residents sparked lengthy discussions from residents, experts and the President of Bell AI…
Datalab has released OmniParseBench, an open OCR benchmark for document parsers. It scores parsers with 16,288 yes/no tests on 2,937 pages from 2,343 documents. The pages span 92 languages. The dataset and code are public. It helps engineers answer a sharper question than a leaderboard does: which parser handles documents like mine? Datalab sells a…
SURREY – A shaky start to the CFL season didn’t dim the B.C. Lions’ big aspirations. Inside the locker room, there’s always been a belief that the team could achieve great things this year, said defensive lineman Casey Sayles. “Sometimes good things take time to kind of develop,” he said. “But we knew the team…
ITIA confirms that the French seed has been on their retired gamers record since October 5 PARIS: Gael Monfils, the final of his technology’s French musketeers, has formally retired from tennis, the Worldwide Tennis Integrity Company (ITIA) confirmed to AFP on Wednesday. The 40-year-old had signalled his intention to go away the game on the…
Drug development has long relied on animal models, but differences between species mean what works in animals doesn’t always translate to humans, and most drugs still fail during development. Intero Biosystems, a Denver-based startup, is developing human intestinal organoids, lab-grown tissue that mimics the gut, as another way to study how drugs and other compounds…
Descrease article font size Increase article font size A 21-year-old man is dead and three other people including a baby are seriously injured after a motorcycle hopped a curb and crashed into a bus shelter in Edmonton. Police say an 18-year-old motorcyclist was racing his 2004 Yamaha YZFR6 motorcycle at a high rate of speed…
