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The "Solving the crisis:" series explores the pressing challenges of our time, including climate change, biodiversity collapse, housing affordability and more.

Overwhelmed with credit cards options and obscure information, four young co-founders started Eclipse , which just released a new product to help users manage their finances and maximize rewards.

Warming temperatures mean shorter ice seasons in Sanikiluaq, Nunavut. As a result, the stretches of landfast ice formed from frozen seawater that Inuit use to travel and hunt on are increasingly unpredictable and unsafe.

Accurate models of real-world scenarios are important for bringing theoretical and experimental research together in meaningful ways.

Writing software code can be a painstaking and stressful process-and downright boring when the job is repetitive and you're doing it remotely, alone in front of your screen.

UCalgary competition brings together leading research teams in academia and industry to focus quantum science on big challenges in energy management and environmental remediation The Quantum City Chal

With Canada in need of airplane pilots, University of Waterloo researchers are using artificial intelligence (AI) to help more of them take flight.

A Simon Fraser University (SFU) researcher is using virtual reality (VR) to help teens regulate their emotions and is using their feedback to help design and develop better technologies for psychologists.

The build-up of ice on an airplane in flight can seriously impair its ability to fly and, in extreme cases, lead to catastrophe.

Developed by two UdeM computer-science students, Mon Éclipse simulates the path of the April 8 total eclipse of the sun.

Opinion: Prioritizing purpose and values over moving fast and breaking things when it comes to new technology Faculty of Mathematics Edith Law is a professor at the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, where she co-directs the Human-Computer Interaction Lab.

New computer model of snow has applications for climate science and computer graphics As snow flurries mark the beginning of winter, a team of University of Waterloo researchers have digitized the white stuff into a new model that can be applied to better understand the impact of climate change.

Waterloo works in partnership with Rogers to revolutionize the landscape of telecommunication and network management By Jordan Flemming University Relations The emergence of 5G technology is transforming telecommunications, granting people and industry remarkable capabilities.

Researchers in the Faculty of Engineering have developed software that simulates and optimizes gear cutting processes to improve productivity Lisa Loiselle Gears are common machine components used in

Jean-Olivier Dicaire-Leduc throws light on hundreds of previously illegible pages of handwritten documents - some more than 350 years old - using text-recognition software powered by AI.

UdeM's Yoshua Bengio and Catherine Régis are set to participate in the AI Safety Summit in England. On Wednesday and Thursday, world experts on artificial intelligence will gather at Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, England for the AI Safety Summit 2023 .