What do new BlackBerry phones, desktop BBM mean for the company?

(Geoff Robins/Canadian Press) Join tech analyst Carmi Levy and CBC Kitchener-Waterloo online host Andrea Bellemare in a noon live chat on Monday, March 31 about what's next for smartphone maker BlackBerry. BlackBerry posted a $423 million...

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Japan's Antarctic whaling program not scientific, world court says

The International Court of Justice on Monday ordered a temporary halt to Japan's Antarctic whaling program, ruling that it is not for scientific purposes as the Japanese government had claimed. Australia had sued Japan at the UN's highest court for...

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Climate change costs seen as steep but tough to tally

The Associated Press Posted: Mar 31, 2014 9:01 AM ET Last Updated: Mar 31, 2014 9:01 AM ET External Links (Note: CBC does not endorse and is not responsible for the content of external links.) The economic and financial...

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Give geoengineering a chance to fix climate change: David Keith

There may indeed be broad agreement among scientists that climate change is happening, that humans are causing it and that urgent action is needed to prevent a global disaster. New reports from the American Association for the Advancement of Science...

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Why 'the skeptical environmentalist' won’t switch off during Earth Hour

If you're curious why the lights have dimmed in your neighbourhood around 8:30 Saturday night, don't fret. Earth Hour is upon us again — the annual event organized by the World Wide Fund for Nature ​that asks individuals to "take...

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'Zapper' in crosshairs as taxman targets high-tech tax evasion

The federal government is hoping that new rules will help fight the shadowy problem of electronic tax evasion in restaurants and retail stores across the country. Software known as a "zapper" or phantomware allows businesses to erase...

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BlackBerry loses $423 million in Q4 as revenue plunges

BlackBerry reported a steep drop in revenue and a widening loss as sales of its smartphones continue to slide. The smartphone maker says it lost $423 million US in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2014, as revenue for the three-month period fell to $976...

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Malaysia Airlines MH370: Why airlines don't live-stream black box data

International teams have spent nearly three weeks looking for evidence of the missing Malaysian Airlines plane, a search that includes the hunt for the aircraft's so-called black box, which holds flight data that would likely explain what caused MH370...

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Beaked whale is deep-diving champion

If there were a gold medal for cetacean diving, it undoubtedly would go to the Cuvier's beaked whale. Scientists said on Wednesday they tracked these medium-sized whales off the coast of California using satellite-linked tags as the creatures dove down...

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New pink dwarf planet discovered beyond Pluto and Sedna

Astronomers have discovered a new pink dwarf planet that has the most distant orbit in our solar system. The discovery suggests there could be thousands of similar planets beyond the known edge of our solar system but within the influence...

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Twitter app lets iPhone, Android users tag friends in photos

Twitter is adding new features that will allow users to tag multiple people in a photo and attach up to four images to a tweet. The social media giant, which boasts almost 650 million active users, announced the changes on the company's official blog...

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BlackBerry takes legal action over leaked secrets

BlackBerry chief executive John Chen says his company will take legal action against an unnamed individual who allegedly leaked future product information. (CBC News) BlackBerry CEO John Chen says he's fighting against future product leaks by taking...

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No earthly politics for Russian, U.S. astronauts blasting into orbit

While international tensions mount over the crisis in Crimea, two Russian cosmonauts and an American astronaut strapped tightly inside a tiny Soyuz capsule are to blast off today, business as usual, for the International Space Station. What's...

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Lost your phone? Expect snooping through your private data

The odds of having a lost cellphone returned are just a little better than 50/50, while the chances of it being probed by its finder are close to 100 per cent, according to the results of an experiment conducted in six Canadian cities. Security software...

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End of Windows XP tech support: How it will affect you

The end is nigh. The end of support for Windows XP, that is. On April 8, Microsoft will officially end technical support for its Windows XP operating system. To be clear, computers running XP will keep working after April 8. But they'll run an...

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Climate change to disrupt food, water supplies says UN report

Global warming will disrupt food supplies, slow world economic growth and may already be causing irreversible damage to nature, according to a UN report due this week that will put pressure on governments to act. A 29-page draft by the Intergovernmental...

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Why 'fireball season' is so spectacular this year

Unusually bright meteors called fireballs have been blasting across the night sky all over Canada in recent weeks. Last week, a fireball thought to have ended up as a meteorite on the ground was spotted in southern Ontario. In Nova Scotia,...

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Turkey tackles Twitter, comes out bruised: Sasa Petricic

The warning from Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan may have sounded like election rally bluster. "Twitter, schmitter," he said in an angry speech to supporters in the northwest town of Bursa. He vowed to "root out" the social media platform....

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Twitter 'biased and prejudiced,' says Turkey after site banned

Turkey said on Saturday that Twitter was "biased" and had been used for "systematic character assassinations" of Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's government, a day after Turkey's ban on the site prompted an international outcry. The Turkish authorities...

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Hunt on for 'Rosetta stone' meteorite after Ontario fireball

Canadian and NASA researchers believe one or more fragments of a rare and valuable meteorite may have landed near St. Thomas, Ont., after a fireball streaked across the sky in southern Ontario Tuesday night. "This is very exciting for us," said Western...

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Barack Obama meets with tech execs on privacy, NSA surveillance

Executives of several large U.S. Internet companies, including Facebook Inc and Google Inc, met with President Barack Obama on Friday to discuss their concerns over government surveillance programs. Obama and senior aides met with six tech executives...

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Hunt on for 'Rosetta stone' meteorite after Ontario fireball

Canadian and NASA researchers believe one or more fragments of a rare and valuable meteorite may have landed near St. Thomas, Ont., after a fireball streaked across the sky in southern Ontario Tuesday night. "This is very exciting for us," said Western...

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