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Photo by: Alberta Newsroom, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, via Flickr TORONTO — Rachel Doran, executive director at Clean Energy Canada, made the following statement in response to the Canada-Alberta Memorandum of Understanding regarding a new energy deal:   “Today’s MOU with Alberta will require the federal government to negotiate firmly in the months ahead. Canada must work diligently to ensure it is not trading future climate promises that, as history suggests, could be reneged on in exchange for higher oil- and gas-related emissions today. “Prime Minister Carney’s government risks trading certainty for expediency as it puts regulations with hard pollution limits—in this…

I wrote an app called SwiftUI View Lifecycle. The app allows you to observe how different SwiftUI constructs and containers affect a view’s lifecycle, including the lifetime of its state and when onAppear gets called. The code for the app is on GitHub. It can be built for iOS and macOS. When we write SwiftUI code, we construct a view tree that consists of nested view values. Instances of the view tree are ephemeral: SwiftUI constantly destroys and recreates (parts of) the view tree as it processes state changes. The view tree serves as a blueprint from which SwiftUI creates…

Across the world, infrastructure engineers and contractors are rethinking how projects are planned, built, and reimagined. There are so many macro factors impacting the built environment—from climate pressures, to growing urbanization, to new community expectations, and to the need for greater sustainability. We are seeing the rise of new projects, new technologies, and new methods for bringing smarter, more sustainable infrastructure to market. One recent example is GeoStruXer’s seismic rehabilitation initiative in Saudi Arabia, which uses a sustainable micropiled PTRaft system to stabilize creeping ground. While this project was recognized through the Bentley-Envision Award for Sustainable Infrastructure from Bentley Systems,…

As promised, Realme today introduced the Realme P4x as the third member of the P Series. The Realme P4x has a 6.72″ FullHD+ LCD on the front with a 144Hz refresh rate and 1,000 nits of peak brightness. The display is also advertised with a 96.9% touch accuracy when operated with wet hands. Furthermore, it has a centered punch hole for the 8MP selfie camera. Around the back is a 50MP primary camera, joined by a 2MP auxiliary unit. Under the hood is the Dimensity 7400 Ultra SoC, with up to 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage. The Realme…

Researchers have developed a new way to model dephasing in attosecond experiments Artistic impression of light-matter interaction and the many complex processes that follow (Courtesy: iStock/Sakkmersterke) Attosecond science is undoubtedly one of the fastest growing branches of physics today. Its popularity was demonstrated by the award of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics to Anne L’Huillier, Paul Corkum and Ferenc Krausz for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter. One of the most important processes in this field is dephasing. This happens when an electron loses its phase coherence because of interactions with its…

Despite companies wanting to implement AI and reap the benefits of it, a majority don’t have the underlying foundations in place to make it work well. According to CData’s latest report, The State of AI Data Connectivity: 2026 Outlook, there is a clear link between data infrastructure maturity and AI maturity. The report found that 60% of the companies who have achieved AI maturity had invested in advanced data infrastructure, such as centralized, semantically consistent integration layers. One hundred percent of respondents agree that access to real-time data is necessary for AI agents, but 20% still lack real-time integration capabilities.…

Welcome to the world of user-centric design, where every click, swipe, and scroll is given the utmost importance. At Better Lives, we believe that the key to creating impactful digital experiences lies in putting our users at the heart of everything we do. In this blog post, we’re diving deep into why user-centric design is a non-negotiable priority for us – and why it should be for you too! So fasten your seatbelts as we explore how this game-changing approach can transform not just your product but also the lives it touches. Get ready to witness how designing with empathy…

When AI systems were just a single model behind an API, life felt simpler. You trained, deployed, and maybe fine-tuned a few hyperparameters.But that world’s gone. Today, AI feels less like a single engine and more like a busy city—a network of small, specialized agents constantly talking to each other, calling APIs, automating workflows, and making decisions faster than humans can even follow.And here’s the real challenge: The smarter and more independent these agents get, the harder it becomes to stay in control. Performance isn’t what slows us down anymore. Governance is.How do we make sure these agents act ethically,…

Ergo, Ireland’s leading IT solutions provider, has been named Microsoft Ireland Azure Partner of the Year 2025. Ergo received this prestigious award for its consistent excellence in leveraging Microsoft Azure technologies to drive transformative results for organisations. This recognition highlights Ergo’s leadership in cloud migration and digital transformation, emphasising the company’s exceptional Azure expertise and its ability to deliver innovative and impactful cloud solutions. Ergo was distinguished by its ability to lead large-scale Azure migrations and deliver Azure AI solutions that address complex business challenges while prioritising security, cost efficiency, and agility. Microsoft commended Ergo’s technical depth and its year-on-year growth with a strong focus on helping customers modernise their IT environments. The company’s track record of supporting organisations in migrating to the…

I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 DeepSeek has unveiled two new experimental AI models DeepSeek-V3.2 is designed to match OpenAI’s GPT-5’s reasoning capabilities. (Bloomberg $)+ Here’s how DeepSeek slashes its models’ computational burden. (VentureBeat)+ It’s achieved these results despite its limited access to powerful chips. (SCMP $)2 OpenAI has issued a “code red” warning to its employeesIt’s a call to arms to improve ChatGPT, or risk being overtaken. (The Information $)+ Both Google and Anthropic are snapping at OpenAI’s heels. (FT $)+ Advertising and other initiatives will be pushed back to accommodate the…