Canada's Wireless Crisis
[Canadian Politics] May 7, 2008 11:50 AM
Dr. Michael Geist delivered the opening speech at the Spectrum 20/20 conference that focused on the state of Canadian wireless marketplace, where he discusses how Canadian wireless is in a state of crisis, with limited competition and high data prices.

Hard Drive Recovered from Columbia Shuttle Solves Physics Problem
[Physics] May 7, 2008 0:52 AM
Researchers have finally published the results of data recovered from a cracked and singed hard drive that fell to Earth in the debris from the Space Shuttle Columbia, which broke up during reentry on February 1, 2003, killing all seven crew members.

Did Earth once have multiple moons?
[Astronomy] May 7, 2008 0:51 AM
The ancient catastrophe that gave birth to the Moon may have produced additional satellites that lingered in Earth's skies for tens of millions of years.

Quebec OKs wind-power proposals
[Green Energy] May 6, 2008 0:16 AM
Hydro-Québec has accepted 15 bids to provide a total of 2,004 megawatts of wind-generated electricity, which will come on stream between 2011 and 2015.

Tories kill access to information database
[Canadian Politics] May 3, 2008 9:31 AM
The Conservatives have quietly killed the Coordination of Access to Information Requests System (CAIRS) public that helped hold the government accountable by listing of nearly every access to information request filed to federal departments and agencies.

Writing the software that runs the Space Shuttle
[Coding] May 3, 2008 9:24 AM
What makes it remarkable is how well the software works: it never crashes, never needs re-booting. This software is bug-free. Consider these stats : the last three versions of the program - each 420,000 lines long-had just one error each. Amazing stuff.

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