Photo: contactphoto on Instagram  Described as the world’s biggest photography festival, the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival began on April 27th and will run throughout the month of May, with a few featured works on display in June. This free festival presents both local and international photography, and includes numerous public exhibitions …

Halep, who also had a medical time out in the second set, was a set and 5-1 down to Svitolina at last year’s French Open before winning – but there was no comeback this time around. There were signs of her quality when she held serve in the ninth game …

Notice any commonalities? Yes, the startups listed are all based in either New York or the San Francisco Bay Area, two metropolises associated with scarce, pricey housing. But while these two metro areas offer the bulk of startups’ living spaces, they’re also operating in other cities, including Los Angeles, Seattle …

Senior Morgane Metraux shot a 70 and is in a tie for fourth place in the individual standings, and the Florida State women’s golf team is in a tie for seventh place in the team standings after the first round of the NCAA Division I Women’s Golf Championships at the …

Nearly four years ago, Intel announced a major shift in its overall silicon strategy. Instead of simply focusing on x86 cores, or even developing a line of specialized many-core accelerators like Xeon Phi, the company would also bring a Xeon CPU to market with an FPGA (field-programmable gate array) integrated …

Bitcoin might not be worth as much as it was at the beginning of the year, but miners are still operating at a phenomenal rate. A new calculation from Bitcoin analyst Alex de Vries says those mining operations are using a stupendous amount of energy. At current levels, de Vries …

A few weeks ago, at Google I/O, company CEO Sundar Pichai demoed an incredible advance in AI and voice technology. The demo involved a new AI assistant making phone calls to two businesses — a hairdresser and a restaurant — to make an appointment and book a reservation, respectively. You …

Google Chrome has won the lion’s share of the browser market with about 57 percent usage, blowing away runner-up Safari at just 14 percent. This gives Google the power to encourage change on the web just by tweaking the way Chrome works. That’s what it did over the last few …

You can finally put those Lego skills from your childhood to work designing medical tests, thanks to a new project from MIT’s Little Devices Lab. Researchers there have developed a set of modular blocks that you can assemble to run various assays with liquid samples. They can measure blood glucose …

Annual lead emissions in Europe closely varied with historical events, including imperial expansion, wars, and major plagues, according to new research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. A day in Ancient Rome, being a revision of Lohr’s ‘Aus dem alten Rom,’ with numerous illustrations, by Edgar …