Photo: tosandwichfest on Instagram  Whether travelling to the 6ix for a quick escape or looking for some unexpected adventure to add to your weekend schedule, Toronto welcomes a host of food festivals and events to celebrate the fresh tastes of spring air. As we prepare to brave the streets after the …

When AMD launched its Ryzen 5 2400G and Ryzen 3 2200G, the rollout ran into a bit of a snag. One of the advantages to buying into AMD’s ecosystem is that the company has promised to maintain motherboard compatibility for a number of years. This is in contrast to Intel, …

A week and a half ago, I found out someone had plagiarized my first book, Breakout: How Atari 8-Bit Computers Defined a Generation, and had been selling it on Amazon for months. The copy was complete, right down to the back cover blurb, where the offending party said he was the …

Every time you go to sleep, you pass through a phase known as hypnagogia. This mental state straddles the line between “sleeping” and “awake.” Sometimes sleep scientists can’t even agree on whether it should be classified as a phase of sleep. Hypnagogia has a reputation for promoting creativity and freedom …

Should astronauts ever make a trip to Uranus, they’ll want to hold their breath. Scientists have confirmed that Uranus smells really bad. That’s not a joke — well it is, but it’s also a true fact about the seventh planet in our solar system. The clouds of the gas giant …

A team of Canadian physicists has developed a new way to improve our knowledge of the Big Bang by measuring radiation from its afterglow, called the cosmic microwave background radiation. The team’s results, published in the journal Foundations of Physics, predict the maximum bandwidth of the Universe, which is the …

The indigenous Bajau people of Southeast Asia spend their whole lives at sea, working 8-hr diving shifts with traditional equipment and short breaks to catch fish and shellfish. In a new study published in the journal Cell, an international team of scientists led by the Universities of California at Berkeley, …

NASA’s Juno mission took its twelfth trip around Jupiter on April 1, 2018, and the orbiter has sent back extraordinary images of the gas giant. This image of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot and surrounding turbulent zones was captured by NASA’s Juno spacecraft. The color-enhanced image is a combination of three …

Where the two companies are using price arbitrage between the costs of developers in emerging markets and coders in the U.S., Techtonic Group is simply offering access to talent. The company’s program pitches itself not just as a development shop, but as a recruitment and training company connecting its clients …

In the rough of the 13th hole of Southern Hills Country Club, Oklahoma’s Grant Hirschman wisely chose to follow his coach’s advice. “I was really just trying to nestle it down by the hole, and luckily enough it kind of curled right in the hole for me.” While vaulting the …