China accuses U.S. hackers of targeting its websites

China's military says overseas computer hackers targeted two of its websites an average of 144,000 times per month last year, with almost two thirds of the attacks originating in the United States. The comments by Defense Ministry spokesman Geng Yansheng...

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Computer scientist wins Canada's top science prize

University of Toronto computer scientist Stephen Cook receives $1 million in research funding over five years. (NSERC) A Toronto researcher who has dedicated his career to proving whether certain types of problems are solvable by computers has won this...

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Mars voyage in 2018 planned by U.S. non-profit

A man and a woman will make a privately funded, 501-day trip to Mars and back in 2018 under a plan unveiled Wednesday. The Inspiration Mars Foundation plans to launch the carefully selected middle-aged American couple into space on Jan. 5 of that year,...

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Satellite imagery could help flood fight in Manitoba

Pictures from space could help flood fighters on the ground in Manitoba. The Canadian Space Agency has awarded a grant to University of Winnipeg geography professor Joni Storie, who will study radar images that could allow flood forecasters to identify...

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Carbon storage project at U of R may be wound up, Premier Wall says

A Saskatchewan science project that developed what was hailed as the first guidelines in the world for safe carbon capture and storage is on the verge of shutting down. Funding is running out for the University of Regina-based International Performance...

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Computer scientist wins Canada's top science prize

University of Toronto computer scientist Stephen Cook receives $1 million in research funding over five years. (NSERC) A Toronto mathematician and computer scientist has won this year's Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering,...

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Professional cellphone contract negotiators haggle for customers

Discussing cellphone bills, contracts and plans with their wireless provider is something many Canadians would rather not do — so a number of entrepreneurs are offering to haggle with service providers on their behalf. Companies such as mybillsarehigh.com...

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Alberta's CO2 capture target falls after project scrapped

Another carbon capture and storage project has been scrapped in Alberta, raising questions about the province's ability to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions. Only two of four government-funded carbon capture projects remain on track in the province...

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Young people overshare financial info, Visa warns

Many young Canadians are "oversharing" their financial information, says a new survey that found nearly half of 18- to 34-year-old respondents admitting they take risks like texting their credit or debit card numbers. The poll by Visa Canada found that...

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Samsung takes on Apple with new tablet

Samsung Electronics is beefing up its tablet range with a competitor to Apple's iPad Mini that sports a pen for writing on the screen. The Korean company announced on Sunday in Barcelona, Spain that the Galaxy Note 8.0 will have an eight-inch screen,...

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Tiny 'lunch-box' satellites carry huge Canadian hopes into space

They are no bigger than a lunch box or a big suitcase respectively, but small high-tech satellites that will blast into space aboard an Indian rocket on Monday carry significant expectations for Canada's future in space. The BRITE and NEOSSat satellites...

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'Social reading' the next phase of e-book revolution

"Wait a minute! Wait a minute! Ya ain't seen nothing yet!" -- Al Jolson, The Jazz Singer (1927) Those were the opening words spoken in the first feature-length talking picture. They proved prophetic for the movies, which have gone through constant,...

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Tiny 'lunch-box' satellites carry huge Canadian hopes into space

They are no bigger than a lunch box or a big suitcase, but the small high-tech satellites that will blast into space aboard an Indian rocket on Monday carry significant expectations for Canada's future in space. These satellites will try to spot asteroids,...

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Lazy eye cured by total darkness

Canadian researchers have found out how to restore normal vision to kittens with a lazy eye without using an eye patch. The cure was relatively simple — putting the kittens in complete darkness for 10 days. Once the kittens were returned to daylight,...

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Samsung takes on Apple with new tablet

Samsung Electronics is beefing up its tablet range with a competitor to Apple's iPad Mini that sports a pen for writing on the screen. The Korean company announced on Sunday in Barcelona, Spain that the Galaxy Note 8.0 will have an eight-inch screen,...

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Evolution takes a similar course each time, study suggests

E. coli bacteria prefer to eat glucose, but once it is all gone, they can switch into a different metabolic mode to eat acetate. (Rocky Mountain Laboratories/NIAID/NIH) Evolution is surprisingly predictable and its course seems relatively unaffected...

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Lazy eye cured by total darkness

In the study, kittens with normal vision developed lazy eye after wearing a patch for seven days. (iStock) Canadian researchers have found out how to restore normal vision to kittens with a lazy eye without using an eye patch. The cure was relatively...

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Tiny 'lunch-box' satellites carry huge Canadian hopes into space

They are no bigger than a lunch box or a big suitcase, but the small high-tech satellites that will blast into space aboard an Indian rocket on Monday carry significant expectations for Canada's future in space. These satellites will try to spot asteroids,...

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OK for police to search cellphone if no password, says court

Ontario's highest court has signalled that the right of police officers to look through someone's phone depends on whether there's a password. The Court of Appeal for Ontario says it's all right for police to have a cursory look through the phone upon...

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Internet pricing ruling may mean better options for consumers

Rates for wholesale business internet services will be the same as residential, rather than higher as originally proposed. (CBC) Independent internet providers say a new internet pricing ruling from Canada's telecommunications regulator may result in...

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Greg Weston: Anti-hacking agency slow to learn about Chinese cyberattack

Confidential documents obtained by CBC News show that when Chinese military spies hacked into the control systems of Canadian pipelines and power grids last fall, this country's official cyber-response agency sprang into action – exactly 10 days later....

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Could muzzling federal scientists be illegal?

"Federal civil servants in Canada, and in particular scientists, are being muzzled by the federal government," alleges a report by Democracy Watch and the University of Victoria's Environmental Law Clinic. (iStock) The Information Commissioner of Canada...

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OK for police to search cellphone if no password, says court

Ontario's highest court has signalled that the right of police officers to look through someone's phone depends on whether there's a password. The Court of Appeal for Ontario says it's all right for police to have a cursory look through the phone upon...

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Seals offer glimpse into human sleep

Scientists are learning more about how sleep works by studying seals. Researchers from the University of Toronto and the University of California say that fur seals sleep with half their brain at a time. "The left side of their brain can sleep while...

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Officials shocked by flow of money in U of R carbon dioxide project

When IPAC was announced in 2008, it received $5 million from Royal Dutch Shell and $5 million from the provincial government. (CBC) After concerns were raised about an apparent conflict of interest one at of Saskatchewan's most prominent scientific...

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