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  • Company that created ChatGPT is thrown into turmoil after Microsoft hires its ousted CEO

    November 20, 2023 - 3:03 PM

    LONDON - The company that created ChatGPT was thrown into turmoil Monday after Microsoft hired its ousted CEO and many employees threatened to follow him in a conflict that centered in part on how to build artificial intelligence that's smarter than humans.

  • Tennis ball wasteland? Game grapples with a fuzzy yellow recycling problem

    September 06, 2023 - 5:20 AM

    NEW YORK (AP) — Tennis has a fuzzy yellow problem most players don’t think about when they open can after can of fresh balls, or when umpires at U.S. Open matches make their frequent requests for “new balls please.”

  • Canada's stockpile of ventilators up from 500 to 27,000 after push to procure them

    March 22, 2023 - 1:00 AM

    Canada's race to procure ventilators for COVID-19 patients in the early days of the pandemic had researchers, scientists, industry and a notable astrophysicist working "night and day"to design machines that could be quickly manufactured domestically.

  • Fusion breakthrough is a milestone for climate, clean energy

    December 13, 2022 - 1:18 PM

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists announced Tuesday that they have for the first time produced more energy in a fusion reaction than was used to ignite it — a major breakthrough in the decades-long quest to harness the process that powers the sun.

  • Mariupol's dead put at 5,000 as Ukraine braces in the east

    April 06, 2022 - 6:31 PM

    ANDRIIVKA, Ukraine (AP) — The mayor of the besieged port city of Mariupol put the number of civilians killed there at more than 5,000 Wednesday, as Ukraine collected evidence of Russian atrocities on the ruined outskirts of Kyiv and braced for what could become a climactic battle for control of the country's industrial east.

  • A breakdown of federal spending in response to the COVID-19 outbreak

    March 11, 2020 - 9:42 AM

    OTTAWA - The federal government unveiled a $1 billion response package to mitigate the effects of COVID-19 on the Canadian health-care system, the economy, and workers. Here is the breakdown of the spending announced Wednesday:

  • US brings new charges against Chinese tech giant Huawei

    February 14, 2020 - 4:26 AM

    WASHINGTON - The U.S. Justice Department has added new criminal charges against Chinese tech giant Huawei and several subsidiaries, accusing the company of a brazen scheme to steal trade secrets from competitors in America, federal prosecutors announced Thursday.

  • U.S. vaping concerns loom as Canada legalizes pot devices

    September 10, 2019 - 12:37 PM

    TORONTO - A wave of illnesses and deaths in the U.S. linked to vaping products may dampen demand for soon-to-be-legal cannabis vapes in Canada later this year, industry watchers say.

  • Made-in-Canada lab-grown meat a possibility after grant from U.S. non-profit

    February 21, 2019 - 7:00 AM

    A group of Toronto scientists will soon attempt to develop a less-expensive way to grow lab-made meat after securing a grant from an American non-profit aiming to boost advances in cultured protein.

  • Correction: Lithium Ion Batteries-Recycling story

    February 16, 2019 - 7:12 AM

    CHICAGO - In a story Feb. 15 about a Department of Energy lithium-ion battery research and development project, The Associated Press reported erroneously the amount that would be spent over three years and the name of Hans Eric Melin's company. The correct amount is $15 million, not $15 billion. Melin's company is called Circular Energy Storage, having changed its name from Creation Inn.
  • iN RESPONSE: Readers have their say
    Following are emailed reader responses to stories or letters to the editor for the first week of May 2024. They have been edited slightly for readability.  Got something you want to add? Send an email to editor Marshall Jones at mjone

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