Tag: Technology & Science

  • Decisive Farming Receives Technology Patent to Increase Crop Growing Efficiencies and Reduce Carbon Footprint on Farms

    Decisive Farming Receives Technology Patent to Increase Crop Growing Efficiencies and Reduce Carbon Footprint on Farms

    Calgary, AB / TheNewswire – Decisive Farming, provider of a data management platform with integrated services for crop farmers, today announced that on Dec 30th, 2014 the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) issued Canadian Patent No. 2,663,917 for its Variable Rate Technology process. Decisive Farming’s patented system provides variable, zone-based crop input prescriptions for optimized production…

  • AccuWeather: Do Animals Possess Instinctive Ability to Sense Impending Storms?

    AccuWeather: Do Animals Possess Instinctive Ability to Sense Impending Storms?

    By Kevin Byrne, AccuWeather.com Staff Writer Animals may possess an innate ability to react to weather quicker than humans, but don’t count on their behaviors determining how much snow is expected for winter or how severe a hurricane season could become. That is because while there are indications that animals do have advanced capabilities to…

  • Canada Foundation for Innovation awards over $2.3 million for 10 projects

    Canada Foundation for Innovation awards over $2.3 million for 10 projects

    Awards bring highest tech tools to push the frontiers of University of Calgary research By Sean Myers Ten projects aimed at solving pressing global questions, from better health to new ways of looking at energy solutions, have received vital funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) that will push their work forward. “When the…

  • Alberta-based Decisive Farming Provides Integrated Service Licensing to G-Mac’s AgTeam

    Alberta-based Decisive Farming Provides Integrated Service Licensing to G-Mac’s AgTeam

    G-Mac’s AgTeam Uses My Farm Manager™ for Variable Rate Technology & Agronomy Services Calgary, AB / TheNewswire – Decisive Farming™ today announced that G-Mac’s AgTeam will use its cloud-based My Farm Manager™ data platform to deliver variable rate technology and other precision agronomy services to growers through their nine retail locations in Western Saskatchewan. The…

  • EarthSky: Big Asteroid Swept Close Today! Online Views Still Coming

    EarthSky: Big Asteroid Swept Close Today! Online Views Still Coming

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  • FSD: The Holiday Domino

    FSD: The Holiday Domino

    By James Aitchison, Director of Learning Technologies for Foothills School Division Just ask… Consumer Electronics were high on the holiday wish list for the average Canadian school aged child. With the cost of devices decreasing every year the opportunity to place wireless devices in the hands of children has never been better. According to Media…

  • ALTALink Transmission Project Update for the High River-Okotoks Corridor

    ALTALink Transmission Project Update for the High River-Okotoks Corridor

    Helicopter Stringing and Implosive Connectors If you live or work near the project, you may notice a helicopter and hear some loud explosive sounds over the next few weeks. Helicopters are used to string the new transmission structures with conductor (wire). During the wire stringing process we will be fusing portions of wire together using…

  • The Rothney Observatory Offers Public a Chance to view Comet Lovejoy Tonight

    The Rothney Observatory Offers Public a Chance to view Comet Lovejoy Tonight

      Sky Conditions – Clear skies forecast, good conditions to view comet. The last time Comet Lovejoy flew by earth was 12,000 years ago. The comet is now visible as it flies through the constellation Aries. The Rothney Astrophysical Observatory is inviting the public to view Comet Lovejoy on Thursday January 22, 8pm to 10pm.…

  • Why Doesn’t Alberta Diversify?

    Why Doesn’t Alberta Diversify?

      ABCtech Editorial In 2005, the Alberta Council of Technologies Society was incorporated to advocate for “Diversifying Alberta’s economy through the commercialization of emerging technologies.” Some argued against our vision stating, “One hour spent diversifying Alberta’s economy is one hour less for producing oil revenue, providing for Alberta health and education.” – Alberta Oil Industry…

  • Poker-Playing Program Knows When to Fold ’em

    Poker-Playing Program Knows When to Fold ’em

    UAlberta researchers solve heads-up limit Texas hold ‘em poker. By Julie Naylor, University of Alberta (Edmonton) In a world first, researchers in the Computer Poker Research Group at the University of Alberta have essentially solved heads-up limit Texas hold ‘em poker with their program, called Cepheus. “Poker has been a challenge problem for artificial intelligence…

  • 6 High-Paying Jobs for 2015

    6 High-Paying Jobs for 2015

      Robert Half Salary Guides Reveal Tech and Creative Jobs With Rising Starting Salaries TORONTO /CNW/ – Salaries in the technology and creative fields are expected to continue their upward trend in 2015, according to the 2015 Salary Guides from Robert Half Technology and The Creative Group. Companies are making larger investments in digital initiatives, turning…

  • London’s Iconic Red Phone Booths Go Green: The ‘SolarBox’ Mobile Charging Station

    London’s Iconic Red Phone Booths Go Green: The ‘SolarBox’ Mobile Charging Station

    By Sarah Burke, GreenerIdeal Ask yourself: When was the last time you used a phone box to make a call? Last week? Last month? Last year? 2 years? 3 years? Yeah, it’s been a while for me too. Still, I bet if you’ve ever visited London (or are planning to) that you still wouldn’t be able to help but…

  • UAlberta Students to Put Alberta’s First Satellite into Orbit

    UAlberta Students to Put Alberta’s First Satellite into Orbit

    (Edmonton) A University of Alberta student team plans to build and launch Alberta’s first satellite. They raised more than $36,000 through the university’s first crowdfunding campaign in December (plus an anonymous donor brought the total to over $50,000) to buy their ticket on the rocket. Now they need to build it. The students’ satellite, the…

  • Dinosaur Rush in Alberta Continues with Leduc Fossil Find

    Dinosaur Rush in Alberta Continues with Leduc Fossil Find

    A hadrosaur fossil uncovered at a Leduc construction site is the second find in a month of Alberta dinosaur discoveries. Palaeontologists from the Royal Tyrrell Museum believe the skeleton to be a Hypacrosaurus, a large hadrosaur (duck-billed dinosaur) that lived about 68 million years ago. Hadrosaurs roamed throughout western North America and measured up to…

  • Metro News: Calgary Student-Run Social Media Campaign on Mental Health

    Metro News: Calgary Student-Run Social Media Campaign on Mental Health

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