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An AI "sleuth" called Imagetwin can scan a paper in "just seconds" and appears able to pick up "problematic" images that the human eye skips over, according to research featured in the journal Nature. But while AI helps uncover IP theft, the likelihood is that people's own IP is helping AI companies - for free. A bot can help with plodding through a pile of academic papers, but is only able to do so because such platforms are "trained" by being fed &q...

After an impressive trio of wins this weekend, the UVic Vikes men’s basketball team has their eyes set on the title of national champions

Local university keeps its high position for under-grad schools

Local university keeps its high position for under-grad schools

Local university keeps its high position for under-grad schools

Local university keeps its high position for under-grad schools

Local university keeps its high position for under-grad schools

Sharks are some of the oldest species on the planet, and some of the most misrepresented in mainstream media. Shark expert Andrew Stewart, curator at Te Papa and co-author of a new kids' book, Mangō​: Sharks and Rays of Aotearoa, explains why we need to look at them differently. 

Here's September's most and least expensive single-family detached homes, townhomes, apartments and condos sold in Burnaby, BC, in the Lower Mainland.

People living in poverty often struggle from payday to payday. Those who receive government assistance, such as welfare or pensions, must manage scarce resources to make ends meet until the next payment. Researchers from Kobe University, the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Toyo University, and Simon Fraser University have studied how people's willingness to take risks changes before and after payday. Social security benefits and pensions are paid at regular intervals. "De...