Metals firms Alcoa Inc. and Rio Tinto Group are teaming up with tech giant Apple and the Quebec and federal governments to commercialize a process that eliminates harmful emissions from smelting by instead producing oxygen
Google has unveiled a computer assistant that makes convincingly human-sounding phone calls, technology which presents a number of sticky legal and moral issues
The $170.8 million project, for local firm SOTI Inc., is expected to create 725 new jobs and support 410 existing positions
The City of Montreal says it is preparing to unveil the first three of a planned 12 high-tech, self-cleaning, free-to-use public bathrooms
NASA’s Mars InSight lander departed from California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base May 5. It is expected to reach the red planet in six months and begin unprecedented geologic excavations
Following a record first-quarter loss of nearly US$710 million, the mercurial Elon Musk brushed off financial questions during a conference call as boring and “not cool”
A Boston restaurant is using automated cooking pots to make grain bowls. The fast food industry has already undergone significant automation in recent years, but the advent of chef bots could be a sign of what’s on the horizon
The southwestern Ontario-based Build a Dream Amazon Warriors were among the thousands of young people from nearly four-dozen countries competing recently for the biggest prize at the FIRST Championship in Detroit
The Mars InSight spacecraft, set to launch this weekend, will take the planet’s temperature and pulse. The US$1 billion U.S.-European mission is the first dedicated to studying the innards of Mars
A star-studded U.S. delegation led by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer touched down in Beijing May 3
