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VICTORIA — As B.C. households, businesses, and industries electrify and electricity demand grows, a new resource is taking shape: distributed energy resources, or DERs, which if prioritized could meet more than 10% of B.C.’s total peak electricity demand by 2040, saving ratepayers money by avoiding more expensive infrastructure build-outs while improving grid reliability.  So finds a new analysis from Dunsky Energy + Climate Advisors commissioned by Clean Energy Canada, which examines the role DERs can play in meeting B.C.’s energy needs over the next 15 years. DERs are technologies—like EVs, heat pumps, and efficient hot water heaters—that are connected to…

Last week at ConExpo‑Con/Agg 2026, industry leaders, contractors, technologists, and equipment manufacturers gathered in Las Vegas to discuss the evolution of how the construction jobsite continues to evolve. The focus was on big equipment, as it always is, but this year the conversations around AI (artificial intelligence), connectivity, automation, and workforce development were impossible to ignore. The bottomline is worker‑centric innovations are reshaping how construction gets work done—and much of this progress is built on more than a decade of IoT (Internet of Things)‑enabled equipment, sensors, and connected workflows that quietly laid the foundation for today’s data‑driven capabilities. We are…

OpenAI offers app integrations in ChatGPT to allow you to connect your accounts directly to ChatGPT and ask the assistant to do things for you. For instance, with a Spotify integration, you can tell it to create personalized playlists that will show up right in your Spotify app. To get started, make sure you’re logged into ChatGPT. Then type the name of the app you want to use at the start of your prompt, and ChatGPT will guide you through signing in and connecting your account. If you want to set everything up at once, head over to the Settings…

Researchers at the University of Cambridge have created a new technique that uses light instead of toxic chemicals to change complex drug molecules. The discovery could speed up drug development and make the process of designing medicines more efficient. The study, published on March 12 in Nature Synthesis, introduces what the team calls an “anti-Friedel-Crafts” reaction. Traditional Friedel-Crafts chemistry requires powerful chemicals or metal catalysts and harsh laboratory conditions. Because of these requirements, the reaction normally takes place early in drug manufacturing and is followed by many additional chemical steps to produce the final medicine. The new Cambridge method turns…

The ground rule for any lender is to check whether a borrower is creditworthy enough to receive a loan. Banks and financial institutions have long been successfully using various credit scoring models for that. However, the financial sector faced significant challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic, including declining ROE and reduced loan investments. These disruptions accelerated the adoption of more flexible lending approaches and encouraged financial institutions to invest in advanced credit scoring software. Credit scoring software allows banks and financial institutions to effectively expand their client bases while keeping lending risks low. Therefore, more and more companies are considering utilizing…

“I never started out wanting to win 23 Grand Slams. I wanted to win the US Open, and then I made that scalable,” joked Serena Williams, managing partner of investment firm Serena Ventures, at SXSW.Typically, panels made up of venture capitalists focus on profits and returns on investment. But with tennis legend Serena Williams as Reckitt Catalyst’s entrepreneur-in-residence, the conversation centered on how funding tech startups could drive tangible community impact. Another panelist included Mika Eddy, the co-founder of Malama Health, a community-based telehealth company that connects pregnant people with local doulas and remote-monitoring tech to support them during their pregnancy…

Everest Group has released its Top GBS Employers™ 2026 and Top Employers for Tech Talent™ 2026 reports, offering an independent, outside-in perspective on how employers are perceived by current and prospective talent across key global markets.  As Global Business Services (GBS) organizations evolve into strategic hubs and companies compete for increasingly specialized digital skills, employer brand perception is emerging as a structural business priority – not merely an HR metric.  According to Rohitashwa Aggarwal, Partner at Everest Group: “In a talent market where “good enough” gets ignored, Everest Group’s Top Employers research cuts through the noise with an outside-in read of how your employer brand is really landing. It shows where you’re winning, where you’re leaking talent,…

In our last benchmarking post, Clarity in complexity: New insights for transparent email security,1 we shared why transparency matters more than ever in email security and how clear, consistent benchmarking helps security teams cut through noise and make confident decisions. Today, we’re continuing that conversation. With the latest Microsoft benchmarking data, we’re sharing what real-world telemetry reveals about how effectively modern email threats are detected, mitigated, and stopped by Microsoft Defender, secure email gateway (SEG) providers, and integrated cloud email security (ICES) solutions. This is part of our ongoing commitment to openness: regularly publishing performance data so customers can see…

Twenty years ago today, on March 14, 2006, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) quietly launched with a modest one-paragraph announcement on the What’s New page: Amazon S3 is storage for the Internet. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers. Amazon S3 provides a simple web services interface that can be used to store and retrieve any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web. It gives any developer access to the same highly scalable, reliable, fast, inexpensive data storage infrastructure that Amazon uses to run its own global network of web sites. Even…

As the needs and complexity of organizational networks expand, there is a greater need to provide threat protections that span diverse use cases, architectures, and attack vectors. These new capabilities found in our latest firewall software release, Cisco Secure Firewall version 10.0, expand the scope of protection to include previously unidentified threats, more accurately match security rules to users and applications, and offer better threat detection capabilities for clustered firewall architectures. You can test drive these capabilities today with Secure Firewall Test Drive, an instructor-led course that will guide you through the Secure Firewall and its powerful roles in cybersecurity for your organization. Expanded Protections for ML-based Intrusion Prevention  SnortML complements the…