Tag: Technology & Science

  • Parks Canada Announces New Explora App for Waterton Lakes National Park

    Parks Canada Announces New Explora App for Waterton Lakes National Park

    New mobile application guides visitors along Waterton’s most popular hike, the Bear’s Hump trail Waterton Lakes National Park is ready to welcome visitors for the 2016 season. This year, Parks Canada is continuing to improve its visitor offer with even more innovative and educational events and activities as well as new investments in visitor facilities.…

  • Alberta High School Video Contest winners 2016

    Alberta High School Video Contest winners 2016

    Labour Minister Christina Gray with contest winners: First place: Seth Dunham, “A Workplace Nightmare”, School: St. Paul’s Academy: Centre for Learning at Home, Okotoks Second place: Jilliane Kell, “Only a Second”, School: Bert Church High School, Airdrie Third place: Christian Montiel, “Mashed Potato”, School: Harry Ainlay High School, Edmonton

  • Grade Six Girls from North Vancouver Create Hike Safe App

    Grade Six Girls from North Vancouver Create Hike Safe App

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  • ATB Place Projects Alberta Story in Extraordinary Light Show

    ATB Place Projects Alberta Story in Extraordinary Light Show

    Edmonton — To celebrate being a key part of Apple Pay’s expansion in Alberta, ATB Financial is staging a never-before-seen building projection on the south face of its downtown Edmonton headquarters tonight. Viewers will experience what happens when an 80-metre tall, 30-metre wide concrete building is transformed into a shining canvas brought to 4K life by 16…

  • Calgary Girls Explore High-Tech Options

    Calgary Girls Explore High-Tech Options

    More than 700 girls from Grade 9 classes around Calgary explored the worlds of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) earlier this month. Explore IT is an annual conference that took place at the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT), Mount Royal University and the University of Calgary. The 17th annual Explore IT exposed young women to high-tech careers…

  • Satellite Maps Provide Survey of Wildfire Damage

    Satellite Maps Provide Survey of Wildfire Damage

    Albertans can use an online mapping application to survey damage in Fort McMurray. The maps provided through the application are intended to provide a high-level satellite overview of the status of the city following the wildfires. The current resolution of the satellite images indicates only which areas were most severely damaged. Structures that appear to…

  • What To Do With The Kids® Launches Kickstarter Campaign to Complete Production of its New App for Sitters and Nannies

    What To Do With The Kids® Launches Kickstarter Campaign to Complete Production of its New App for Sitters and Nannies

    A new app from What To Do With The Kids® is in the final stages of production following the work done by Mobile Application students at Ottawa’s Algonquin College and has launched a Kickstarter Campaign to hire a seasoned professional to finish the project in time for its release this summer.  SitterAdvantage is an app…

  • Apple Pay Now in Hands of ATB Customers

    Apple Pay Now in Hands of ATB Customers

      Edmonton — Starting now, ATB Financial MasterCard customers have a new, easy, secure and private way to pay that’s fast and convenient. Say hello to Apple Pay. Apple Pay allows ATB customers to use their iOS devices for everyday transactions, such as grabbing a coffee or picking up groceries. Apple Pay is easy to use, easy…

  • What Makes a Red Rainbow?

    What Makes a Red Rainbow?

    Red rainbows happen when the sun is on the horizon. They’re created in much the same process that causes a sunset or sunrise to look red. Astrophotographer Göran Strand of Sweden kindly gave us permission to publish this photo, which shows a double rainbow … and a phenomenal double red rainbow. He shot the upper…

  • Government Moving Forward on Research and Innovation

    Government Moving Forward on Research and Innovation

    Government would control spending, create jobs and diversify the economy with the proposed creation of a single Alberta Innovates entity. Bill 11 proposes to merge four existing Alberta Innovates corporations into one. This leaner entity would build on the strengths of each corporation while enabling a stronger, more responsive research and innovation system. This change…

  • Dinosaurs Already in Decline Before Asteroid Apocalypse?

    Dinosaurs Already in Decline Before Asteroid Apocalypse?

    New research suggests that dinosaurs were in decline tens of millions of years before the meteorite impact that finished them off. New research published April 19, 2016 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that dinosaurs were in evolutionary decline tens of millions of years before the meteorite impact that finally…

  • See Death Valley’s 2016 Superbloom

    See Death Valley’s 2016 Superbloom

    By Deborah Byrd This new and wonderful video from SkyGlowProject.com will let you experience the 2016 superbloom of wildflowers in Death Valley National Park. AMARGOSA SUPERBLOOM from Harun Mehmedinovic on Vimeo. Did you miss last month’s superbloom in Death Valley National Park? I did, and it made me sad. These events are rare. Death Valley…

  • Town of Black Diamond: Broadband/Fibreoptic Digital Connectivity Update

    Town of Black Diamond: Broadband/Fibreoptic Digital Connectivity Update

      Early this year, Council decided to take a look at all of the available options before making any big decisions about bringing fibreoptic services into town. There are a number of options out there, and the Calgary Regional Partnership (CRP) is currently investigating them, along with its partnering communities. The information update, provided by…

  • EarthSky News: 10 Surprises About our Solar System

    EarthSky News: 10 Surprises About our Solar System

    By Larry Sessions A collection of 10 unexpected and intriguing facts about our solar system – our sun and its family of planets – you probably did not know! Remember those styrofoam models of the solar system we made in elementary school? The solar system is even cooler than that! Here are 10 things you…

  • Clearing the Air in Central Alberta

    The Alberta government is releasing a plan to help improve ambient air quality in the Red Deer region. Between 2009 and 2013, ambient air quality in the region exceeded Canadian standards for fine particulate matter. The plan will help bring ambient air quality in compliance with national standards. “Our government is committed to reducing the…