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The holidays saw five instances of theft at the University of Manitoba. The U of M Security Services reported that two thefts of cell phones occurred. These thefts occurred when the devices were left...

The NHL lockout is officially over and, according to a photograph of the Jets game schedule leaked online in the Winnipeg Free Press, the first game is set for Jan. 19 at the MTS...

Bisons With Byte group invited to Russia for computer programming competition A University of Manitoba computer science group, Bisons With Byte, will be traveling to Russia for the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) International Collegiate...

A recent ruling on Jan. 8 by a federal court redefined “Indian” under the Constitution Act to include Métis and non-status Aboriginal peoples. The decision has First Nations groups celebrating, while the federal government...

Lisa P. Jackson, the U.S.’s top environmental regulator, is stepping down as head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), effective later this month (following President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address). An anonymous...

Last month saw the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 17 mission. December 7, 1972, was the last time a crewed lunar mission was launched. Since Eugene Cernan climbed back into the Challenger lunar module...

Between the birth of the world and 2003, there were five exabytes of information created. We create five exabytes every two days. See why it’s so painful to operate in information markets? –Google CEO...