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Does WiFi scare you?
Parents from across Alberta will decide next month if they feel schools should put new restrictions on wireless networks to protect children’s health.
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Columnists The Right Chemistry: Answers about PVC blinds, 'Liquid Oxygen'
Joe Schwarcz addresses questions about what effects, if any, two products have on human health. -
Local News The humidex: Canadians didn't invent humidity, but we labeled it
If engineer and inventor Willis Carrier was the Thomas Edison of air-conditioning, then J.M. Masterton and F.A. Richardson were the Archimedes of the humidex. -
Local News I reached out and touched the moon at the Montreal Science Centre
The lunar rock from Apollo 17 mission is 3.8 billion years old — and we mere mortals are allowed to touch it. -
Space Canadians who paid out-of-this-world ticket prices could soon be space-bound
Space tourists considering buying extra flight insurance, meanwhile, may be out of luck. -
Columnists The Right Chemistry: I'll level with you; asphalt is problematic
It's important for workers to take safety measures. Here's why -
World Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos just became the richest person in modern history
His net worth broke $150 billion today — that’s $55 billion more than Bill Gates. -
Business 9 years after Nortel's fall, addresses for 1,000 claimants owed $8.5M still missing
Cheques totalling $4.1 billion have already gone to more than 15,000 creditors representing former Nortel employees, suppliers, lenders, pensioners and survivors. -
Columnists The Right Chemistry: Are proponents of 'hydrogen water' all wet?
As always, it's prudent to be skeptical. But there is a surprising amount of research on the potential therapeutic uses of hydrogen.
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Bose SoundLink Colour Bluetooth Speaker review: Low price for a great speaker
It’s kind of a funny thing when it comes to reviewing Bose products of any kind. They simply don’t put their name on anything that isn’t of a real high quality, so when I first saw the Bose SoundLink Colour […] -
How Toronto-based Nymi wants to replace passwords with heart rate authentication
Whether it’s logging into a work computer, bank account or even something as simple as unlocking a smartphone, passwords are a necessary and often highly frustrating complication of everyday life. Toronto-based Nymi, formerly known as Bionym, wants to simplify the password-entering […] -
Sony closing Music Unlimited, forges partnership with Spotify
On Wednesday Sony revealed plans to launch a new Spotify-powered music streaming service on the PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, and on Xperia smartphones and tablets. The new streaming music platform – called PlayStation Music – will require a paid Spotify premium membership […] -
Apple Watch will start shipping in April, says Tim Cook
Adam Satariano Apple Watch is coming in April. Apple Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook said on a conference call that the much-anticipated wearable gadget will be shipped starting that month. The company hadn’t previously announced what specific month the watch […] -
New Snapchat Discover feature delivers news, entertainment content with ‘gorgeous advertising’
Snapchat’s new Discover feature is set to allow users to see content posted by brands like ESPN, CNN, Vice and Warner Music, moving the disposable image-sharing platform in a new advertising-focused direction. According to a recent blog post on the […] -
Pirate Bay torrent sharing website may be returning Feb. 1
The popular torrent indexing website, The Pirate Bay, could be returning on Feb. 1, after going offline roughly a month ago following a police raid on the website’s servers in Sweden. Cryptic messages, such as a skull and crossbones and […] -
Logitech Type+ and Keys-To-Go review: Typing with your iPad just got easier
So you got a new iPad for Christmas – lucky you. But now you think that it’d be a good thing to have a keyboard other than the one on the iPad screen. The screen version works perfectly well, but […] -
Nexus 6 review: Is Google’s big, pricey smartphone worth buying?
Google’s Nexus 6 smartphone is gigantic. It’s bigger than the iPhone 6 Plus’ 5.5-inch screen and the Galaxy Tab’s 5.6-inch display, measuring in at an astounding 5.96 inches. Make no mistake, the Nexus 6 is for people who don’t mind looking a […] -
Rogers and Shaw sign deal to stream original Amazon video content to shomi
Rogers Communications Inc. and Shaw Communications Inc. announced on Thursday that the two companies have signed a deal to stream Amazon.com Inc.’s original TV content via their jointly-owned streaming platform, Shomi. The deal includes shows like “Transparent,” which won two […] -
Bell Media says it would love to have a CraveTV app but Apple hasn’t allowed ...
Michael Oliveira TORONTO — Read through the tweets posted by CraveTV and Shomi and you’ll see suggestions that users might finally get Apple TV apps to access the Canadian streaming services. If it was up to Bell Media, CraveTV would’ve […]