News Items tag as: technology Kelowna

The advantages and limitations of robot servers in Kamloops and Okanagan restaurants
February 21, 2025 - 7:11 AM
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Customers can find a cute kitty robot whizzing around serving food at a handful of Kamloops and Okanagan restaurants, but one restaurateur in Kelowna predicts it will take time before the bots become regular fixtures in the industry.
Avatars to the rescue: Kelowna company takes on Zoom with virtual reality
August 31, 2020 - 6:30 PM

Kelowna-based Apex VR Holdings is launching a virtual meeting/social gathering platform that will offer all that Zoom does and much more.
Dragon's Den for techies coming to Kelowna
March 31, 2016 - 6:30 PM

KELOWNA - It’s a bit like Dragon’s Den for techies and it’s coming to the Okanagan for the first time ever.
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iN RESPONSE: Readers have their say
Following are a collection of reader responses to stories or letters to the editor for the fourth week of March 2024. They have been edited slightly for readability. Got something you want to add? Send an email to editor Marshall Jone

$145,000 fine for Kelowna orchardist previously involved in tractor death
A Kelowna company that grows, processes and exports cherries was fined last year following a fatal tractor incident has again been fined after a tractor driver was seriously injured. According to a recently published Feb. 6 WorkSafeBC

Marijuana gummies send 11 New York middle-schoolers to hospitals
MORICHES, New York (AP) — Police and a middle school in suburban New York are looking into how a student got hold of marijuana gummies and gave them to about a dozen schoolmates, sending 11 of them to hospitals. The episode happened M

Okanagan’s first ‘net-zero’ home is insulated with hemp
In an effort to make construction more sustainable a Kelowna developer has built a home insulated with hemp. The 5-bedroom, 3.5-bathroom, 2,430 square foot home at 278 Summer Wood Drive in the Echo Ridge development in Kelowna meets the pro

The advantages and limitations of robot servers in Kamloops and Okanagan restaurants