technology
New data from the ASGC Games Industry Layoffs Tracker projects game industry job losses will reach 14,259 by the end of 2026, marking a 78% increase from initial forecasts. Confirmed layoffs have climbed to 9,781 through late July, driven by major workforce reductions across North America and Europe. The video game industry’s multi-year employment crisis … Read more
NASA’s Psyche spacecraft successfully completed a high-speed gravity assist flyby of Mars, capturing detailed time-lapse imagery of the Red Planet while testing its scientific instruments and deep-space optical communications system on its multi-year journey toward the metal-rich asteroid 16 Psyche. The encounter harnessed the planet’s orbital momentum and gravity to accelerate the probe and slightly … Read more
A Canadian man spent 18 months behind bars for child pornography charges due to a police typo involving usernames. Meanwhile, in New York, a Buffalo-area priest was arrested and charged with receiving and possessing illicit files following an FBI investigation into cloud storage. A Canadian Injustice Built on a Typo in Usernames Six years ago, … Read more
Visa plans to cut 7% of its workforce, totaling about 2,600 jobs, primarily targeting technology and product teams. Announced ahead of its quarterly earnings report, CEO Ryan McInerney stated the efficiency push aims to reinvest in high-growth opportunities as artificial intelligence reshapes daily operations across the payments giant. Visa Workforce Reductions and the Technology Restructuring … Read more
NASA researchers examining data from the MAVEN mission have uncovered a local process akin to Earth’s Dandy cycle above magnetized Martian crustal regions. Simultaneously, the Psyche spacecraft captured a time-lapse of Mars during a planetary flyby, providing scientists a rehearsal for its 2029 asteroid arrival. A lost NASA spacecraft has handed scientists the key to … Read more
Researchers at the University of Calgary and the National Research Council of Canada have captured ultraweak photon emissions from living mice and plants, revealing a faint biological glow that vanishes immediately upon death. The findings offer new potential for non-invasive medical and agricultural diagnostics. Life leaves a subtle light signature, and death quietly turns it … Read more
Illustrator Isabelle Arsenault and publisher Frédéric Gauthier have opened Leporello in Lac-Brome, creating a vibrant boutique, gallery, and creative workshop space designed to celebrate illustration and provide artists with a liberating environment away from generative artificial intelligence and daily commercial pressures. A New Creative Sanctuary in Lac-Brome Right in the heart of Lac-Brome, an extraordinary … Read more
Environmental groups and scientists have submitted a petition to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) warning that plans to launch millions of orbital data centers could be “catastrophic” for the planet and permanently alter the Earth’s atmosphere, according to reports from NewsNation and The Guardian. The push for space-based computing comes as big tech companies face … Read more
Landwirtschaftsminister Norbert Totschnig (ÖVP) presented the draft bill for a new centralized „Wasserentnahmeregister (water abstraction register) during the second Trinkwasser-Gipfel. The draft legislation, which was initially announced at the beginning of June, was formally transmitted to the coalition partners. The proposed system aims to track high-volume water consumers across sectors such as industry and agriculture, … Read more
Researchers have discovered that sperm whales blow bubbles while resting vertically just beneath the ocean surface, a mechanism that helps these breath-hold divers counteract expanding lung gases and maintain neutral buoyancy during short 10- to 15-minute napping bouts. Sperm whales are known for their dives into the deep ocean. But when it is time to … Read more