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VICTORIA — Evan Pivnick, associate director of public affairs at Clean Energy Canada, released a statement in response to BC Hydro’s release of its new energy efficiency strategy, Power Smart 2.0:“BC Hydro has a strong history of using energy conservation to reduce electricity use in B.C. as well as prepare for the growing demands for electrification. However, while this new plan makes meaningful investments and continues in this tradition, it falls short of fully harnessing the opportunities that household technologies have to save families—and BC Hydro—money.“A recent study from Dunsky Energy + Climate Advisors found that distributed energy resources (electric…

Smart buildings are no longer just about connected devices, sensors, and automation. The bigger opportunity is using workplace data to make buildings more efficient, more responsive, and better aligned to the people and businesses that depend on them. The need is clear. Buildings accounted for about 28% of global energy consumption and 37% of global carbon dioxide emissions in 2024, according to a 2026 report from the UN Environment Programme. For businesses, workplace environments offer a practical place to reduce energy use, manage operating costs, and improve the experience of employees and visitors. Achieving that requires more than isolated building…

The revamped Google Health app (formerly Fitbit) has landed alongside the new Fitbit Air, and while not everyone is happy with the changes, my experience has been pretty positive.I’ve been using the new UI for six months, staring with the Health Coach preview launches toward the end of 2025, and while the upgrade to Google Health has brought in some useful changes and features, there are still some improvements I would like to see. These are my biggest highlights after spending some time with the new Google Health app.Today’s best Fitbit Air and Google Pixel Watch 4 dealsA welcome redesign…

Every team has had this sprint review. The team worked hard. The most important story got plenty of attention. Everyone agrees progress was made. But there’s not much to show. The backend is done, but the UI isn’t connected. The main flow works, but the edge cases aren’t tested. The feature is close, but no one is comfortable calling it done. So the story moves to the next sprint. When that happens occasionally, it may just be bad luck. When it happens regularly, start by looking at story size. Big stories are hard to finish. They stay in progress for…

QUANTUM MAGAZINE – ISSUE #3 (MAY 2026) The Magazine for Quantum Tech SPECIAL FEATURE: Post-Quantum Cryptography Issue #3 delivers an authoritative special report on post-quantum cryptography (PQC) — the global effort to replace the world’s vulnerable encryption before a cryptographically relevant quantum computer arrives. This comprehensive feature explains why “harvest now, decrypt later” attacks make the migration urgent today, even though no machine capable of breaking RSA yet exists, and lays out the practical roadmap organisations must follow to reach quantum safety. The feature includes: The Quantum Threat Explained: Why Shor’s algorithm collapses RSA and elliptic-curve cryptography from infeasible to…

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a global leader in IT services, consulting and business solutions, who operate a Global Delivery Centre in Letterkenny, Co. Donegal, today announced a landmark strategic partnership with Mistral, one of world’s leading AI companies. As part of this collaboration, TCS has become the first global systems integrator partner for Mistral Forge, Mistral’s advanced system for enterprises to build frontier-grade AI models grounded in their proprietary enterprise knowledge and domain-specific data. The partnership combines Mistral’s frontier AI capabilities with TCS’ deep context of enterprise customers, domain knowledge and engineering excellence, to help organisations scale enterprise AI responsibly…

Press Release When we watch videos on our phones, we expect them to load instantly and play smoothly – even in the busiest places or at peak times. But as demand for video continues to grow, mobile networks can sometimes come under pressure, leading to buffering or drops in quality. Keeping videos smooth on the UK’s best mobile network  That’s why we’ve introduced a range of tools across our industry-leading EE network to ensure seamless performance for customers – from capacity-boosting small cell mini-masts to our world-first implementation of Advanced RAN Coordination (ARC) technology. This helps improve everyday experiences like streaming video, scrolling social media and watching live content on the…

We are happy to announce that torch v0.9.0 is now on CRAN. This version adds support for ARM systems running macOS, and brings significant performance improvements. This release also includes many smaller bug fixes and features. The full changelog can be found here. Performance improvements torch for R uses LibTorch as its backend. This is the same library that powers PyTorch – meaning that we should see very similar performance when comparing programs. However, torch has a very different design, compared to other machine learning libraries wrapping C++ code bases (e.g’, xgboost). There, the overhead is insignificant because there’s only…

Key Takeaways 96% of organizations are already investing in location intelligence and third-party data enrichment, but near-universal adoption does not equal maturity AI amplifies the consequences of incomplete or ungoverned context data – confidently wrong outputs are far more dangerous than mediocre ones. The question for data leaders has moved past “are we using enrichment?” to “is it governed, fresh, integrated, and truly AI-ready?” Here’s one thing I’ve learned after three decades in location data: nearly every organization has had a version of the same blind spot. They invest heavily in understanding their own operations – transactions, interactions, customer records…

Authorities in the Netherlands have arrested the co-owners of two related Internet hosting companies for operating IT infrastructure used by Russia to carry out cyberattacks, influence operations and disinformation campaigns inside the European Union. The two men were the focus of a 2025 KrebsOnSecurity story about how their hosting companies had assumed control over the technical infrastructure of Stark Industries Solutions, an Internet service provider sanctioned last year by the EU as a frequent staging ground for cyber mischief from Russia’s intelligence agencies. An investigator with the Tax Intelligence and Investigation Service (FIOD), the Dutch financial crimes agency, during the…