The solution? Lock up the screens and read to your kids If you're thinking of plopping your infant in front of a screen to get some peace and quiet, you might want to reconsider - higher screen exposure in infancy was linked to longer decision times later on and higher anxiety symptoms in the teenage years.…

The most popular desktop browser is festooned with Google AI, but you can make at least some of it go away Most of today’s desktop web browsers come with a ton of built-in AI features, but the good news is that, in most cases, no one is forcing you to use them, and you can at least hide them from view. Removing the most egregious AI tools from Chrome is pretty simple, but it requires a few steps.…

Friday’s trade starkly reinforced the organization’s failure over six years and two managerial regimes to build a lasting contender around a generational defenceman like Hughes.

“We cannot afford this level of dependence on foreign tech,” lawmakers say in letter obtained by POLITICO.

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Meteorologists have a historical penchant for giving names to atmospheric phenomena which, in today’s world, sound rather like phrases made up to fit a dramatic headline than real scientific …

Andre McKechnie argues the Vegemite ban in Victoria's jails denies him the right to "enjoy his culture".

Ander Louis has written a new version of Leo Tolstoy's classic Russian novel in Australian slang.

The government is pleading with Iranians to save water as reservoirs dry up and rainfall is at a record low.

Infosec agency warns hacktivists broke into critical infrastructure systems to tamper with controls Hacktivists have breached Canadian critical infrastructure systems to meddle with controls that could have led to dangerous conditions, marking the latest in a string of real-world intrusions driven by online activists rather than spies.…

Citizen! You are falling short in your AI usage targets! Strive harder for the revolution! Opinion  The quantum theory of management includes an analogy for the physical law of the observer effect, where observing a system changes its state. When you make a metric a target, it is not useful as a metric. Instead of reflecting whatever underlying behavior it was intended to measure, the metric becomes a measure of how well the benchmark is being gamed.…

Kessler syndrome is bad; atmospheric incineration may be worse, says astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell If you had to guess how many Starlink satellites burn up in Earth's atmosphere on an average day, how many would you pick? This isn't a trick question - SpaceX is deorbiting about one or two satellites daily, and that number is only going to grow. …

SCRD to request meeting with province over active transportation funding

These ten features would make users more productive OPINION  From desktop alerts begging you to sign up for Xbox Game Pass to a second-chance out-of-the-box experience that insists you need Microsoft 365, Windows has a hard time taking "no" for an answer. The operating system's corporate parent isn't a good listener either, festooning the OS with useless features no one asked for.…

A Microsoft Exit strategy isn’t just a good idea, it’s vital. It must go a long way beyond a farewell to Redmond Opinion  One of the dangers of stories based on big cash numbers is distraction. The numbers get all the attention, the bigger story behind them gets missed.…

They want you to use a Microsoft account, but we'll show you how to get around it hands on  Redmond really – and I mean really – wants you to log into Windows 11 with a Microsoft account.…

There was a 14-fold increase in the total number of ships employing scrubber technology in coastal waters between 2018 and 2022, according to Canadian government data.