Google and Nasa unveil superfast quantum computer that can cure diseases, stop global warming and ...
Source: Mail Online UK
Toronto :: Canada | updated 2013-05-16 03:41:29 -0700 | technology-news
16 May 2013 Google has teamed up with Nasa to buy only the second commercial quantum computer ever made. It can perform tasks 3,600 times faster than normal computers and the two organisations are hoping to use it to find...
With no middle managers, travel agency loses its way
Source: The Globe & Mail
Toronto :: Canada | updated 2013-05-16 02:56:50 -0700 | technology-news
EDT Alexandre Handa is managing partner of Handa Travel Student Trip Ltd. (S-Trip), which sells spring break, adventure and other trips to young people. (Rosa Park For The Globe and Mail) S-Trip was the quintessential family business. Alexandre Handa and...
Bright ideas
Source: The Beacon Herald
Toronto :: Canada | updated 2013-05-15 23:16:33 -0700 | technology-news
Split Stick, from crowd-sourced gadget lab Quirky, has a 4 GB drive built into each end -- one for work and one for play. Follow the little graphics on each side, and you won't accidentally load your vacation slideshow onto...
Residents of rustic Belcarra cottages fight eviction
Source: Vancouver Sun
Vancouver :: Canada | updated 2013-05-15 23:02:59 -0700 | technology-news
It was the summer of 1964 when Jo Ledingham first set foot in a rustic cottage on the Belcarra waterfront. She loved that there wasn't running water, electricity or a flush toilet. That came later, along with new roofs, decks...
Herbicide ‘nukes the hell' out of White Rock: Pitcairn
Source: Vancouver Sun
White Rock :: Canada | updated 2013-05-15 23:02:55 -0700 | technology-news
Don Pitcairn, the Green party candidate for Surrey-White Rock, said he was astonished to find a stretch of dead grass along the waterfront while collecting his signs late Tuesday after the election. I came down Marine Drive and I was...
Race to the End of the Earth
Source: The Globe & Mail
Victoria :: Canada | updated 2013-05-15 20:21:55 -0700 | technology-news
EDT A life-sized re-creation of Roald Amundsen's underground workrooms. (Denis Finnin/American Museum of Natural History) It was a race that has captured imaginations for more that a century. At the end of 1911, two teams one British and one Norwegian...
Vancouver council green-lights a new-housing ‘game changer'
Source: The Province
Vancouver :: Canada | updated 2013-05-15 18:50:35 -0700 | technology-news
Vancouver council unanimously approved a game changer social housing project on a grand scale that has been attempted in the city since the 1970s. The city was able to leverage a $76-million private investment from non-profits by granting $22-million in...
Want to find good marketing ideas? Ask your dad
Source: The Globe & Mail
Toronto :: Canada | updated 2013-05-15 16:23:37 -0700 | technology-news
EDT Father and son reading book (Jupiterimages/Getty Images/Polka Dot RF) We already know that dads are the original hipsters . But in a marketing world obsessed with digital innovation, and everything new, your dad might not seem to be the...
$17M lotto winner retires immediately
Source: Delhi News-Record
Toronto :: Canada | updated 2013-05-15 14:52:16 -0700 | technology-news
Bruce Willman said he retired as soon as he found out he and his wife won more than $17 million. Willman and his wife Monique were introduced Wednesday as Manitoba's newest lottery winners accepted a prize of $17,026,623.50 after winning...
What's in store for Internet as 'the next five billion' join up
Source: The Globe & Mail
Toronto :: Canada | updated 2013-05-15 13:39:42 -0700 | technology-news
Google Ideas think tank, visited some 30 countries with Mr. Schmidt to collect information for a book titled, The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business . Amid a sea of books predicting the myriad ways...
Can white wines really come from red grapes?
Source: The Globe & Mail
Toronto :: Canada | updated 2013-05-15 13:39:33 -0700 | technology-news
EDT (Medioimages/Photodisc/Getty Images) The question Is Champagne really made from pinot noir?...The answer You can make white wine, including Champagne, from red grapes. Real-deal French Champagne relies on three varieties, pinot noir, pinot meunier and chardonnay.
Internet Broadcasting Expands Video Capabilities
Source: PR Newswire
Saint Paul :: Canada | updated 2013-05-15 12:37:55 -0700 | technology-news
IB is committed to its media clients who embrace a content-driven strategy and regularly releases innovative new capabilities for the ibPublish platform. This release, along with other enhancements to ibPublish, not only expands capabilities, but simplifies user workflow to allow...
Cellphone app helps save trapped ducklings in Windsor
Source: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Toronto :: Canada | updated 2013-05-15 12:14:52 -0700 | technology-news
A cellphone app is being credited for helping save the lives of a pair of ducklings in Windsor, Ont. more » Chris Hadfield's fall from space May. PM The final segment of Canadian Astronaut Chris Hadfield's mission, the return to...
Real Estate Tip: Your checklist for moving day
Source: Canadian Free Press
Toronto :: Canada | updated 2013-05-15 09:50:09 -0700 | technology-news
The key to keeping calm under pressure is being organized and prepared for the chaos that will likely ensue. Following are a few reminders for how to handle the big day with ease...If you can't remain personally, authorize someone to...
Restaurateur doesn't want to share washrooms
Source: Star Phoenix
Saskatoon :: Canada | updated 2013-05-15 07:42:53 -0700 | technology-news
Saskatoon has a recipe for a new food truck policy, but one ingredient may still be missing: namely, a place for people dining on the street to answer calls of nature. "My question, which I haven't seen answered in any...
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