Google Goes Green
Google, together with New York investment firm Good Energies, is buying a 37.5 per cent stake in a US$5 billion project to build 563 kilometres…
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Internet goes down on campus
Several students and staff experienced problems with the Internet at the University of Manitoba over the past week. This caused serious difficulties for students and…
The art of paying attention
One fateful Wednesday afternoon, I decided to sit in on my best friend’s biology lecture. I’ll admit I was looking for a way to completely…
Net Neutrality and Internet censorship
It’s not often that a technology as radical, accessible and world changing as the Internet comes to be. It’s even more rare that the technology…
UMSU disability website goes live
On Sept. 23, the doors opened to a new home for students living with disabilities on the World Wide Web, at umsudisability.ca. The new UMSU…
Rules were meant to be broken
Formula One (F1) is a sport where millions upon millions of dollars are spent to go a tenth of a second faster. The rub is…
Internal combustion: the way of the future
Just when you thought we were on the verge of an electric car revolution, it turns out that the internal combustion engine isn’t leaving anytime…
Bigger, better batteries
IBM is currently working on the development of a new type of battery. The technology is called lithium-air or lithium oxygen. Their goal is to…
Local Briefs
Cellphone increases workload for 911 call centre The increasing use of cellphones to dial 911 is putting stress on dispatchers. Part of the problem is…
Money talks, bullshit walks in Alberta’s tar sands
Canada’s dirty laundry was displayed to U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi recently. Pelosi was in Ottawa last week, where she met first with Environment Minister…