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Chatty robot helps seniors fight loneliness through AI companionship
December 22, 2023 - 12:48 PM

CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. (AP) — Joyce Loaiza lives alone, but when she returns to her apartment at a Florida senior community, the retired office worker often has a chat with a friendly female voice that asks about her day.
Stars not aligned for astrologers during COVID-19, as horoscopes dish outdated advice
March 25, 2020 - 5:48 AM

The stars haven't aligned for astrologers in the age of COVID-19.
Data-driven Valentine's: What Facebook knows about love
February 14, 2014 - 10:50 AM

NEW YORK, N.Y. - With 1.23 billion users in all the flavours and up-and-down stages of romantic relationships, Facebook knows a thing or two about love.
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A look back at the glory days of celery production in the Okanagan
Celery isn’t grown commercially locally these days, but once upon a time there were acres of it growing in the Okanagan. Kelowna resident Domenic Rampone’s family immigrated from northern Italy to Kelowna in 1893 where they grew

North Thompson woman refused home insurance over cannabis plants loses human rights case
A North Thompson woman has lost a legal battle against more than a dozen insurance companies after she was refused coverage because she grew medical cannabis on her property. According to a May 2 BC Human Rights Tribunal decision, form

Dispute between Vernon neighbours over tree pruning ends with legal challenge
A neighbourly dispute about overhanging tree branches has left a Vernon senior housing society in the red after it failed in its legal challenge to get its neighbour to pay for pruning. According to a May 27 BC Civil Resolution Tribunal dec

Chatty robot helps seniors fight loneliness through AI companionship