Twitter said on Tuesday it would start applying a label to tweets containing synthetic or deceptively edited forms of media, as social media platforms brace for a potential onslaught of misinformation ahead of the 2020 presidential election. The company also said it would remove any deliberately misleading manipulated media likely to cause harm, including content…

World-renowned scientist Dr. Frank Plummer has died, CBC News has learned. No confirmed cause of death has yet been released. Plummer, 67, was in Kenya, where he was a keynote speaker at the annual meeting of the University of Nairobi’s collaborative centre for research and training in HIV/AIDS/STIs. Plummer was born and raised in Winnipeg, where he headed up Canada’s National…

Conservative leadership candidate Peter MacKay says Canada’s Paris climate targets are a “dream” — but he’s not ready to abandon them or conclude they’re unachievable. Under the 2015 multinational Paris agreement, Canada committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 30 per cent by 2030 compared to 2005 levels, a target that was first set by Stephen Harper’s government. In an interview with…

Encased in a metal exoskeleton, a construction worker looking like a robot wields a motorized chipper to remove tiles from a wall. Despite the weight of the tool and its intense vibrations, the worker never tires or loses their grip. They are a new breed of construction worker in Canada, using wearable machinery to do work faster and…

BlackBerry Mobile says TCL Communication will no longer be making or selling BlackBerry-branded mobile devices. The company signed a brand licensing and technology support deal with TCL Communication in December 2016 as part of its plan to stop making smartphones and focus on software. Under the terms of that agreement, BlackBerry licensed its security software and service suite,…

The Vancouver-based mining company proposing to build the massive Frontier oilsands mine in northeastern Alberta has set a target to be “carbon neutral” by 2050. Teck Resources Ltd., which is awaiting a decision from the federal government on Frontier, says it will try to achieve its goal by first avoiding creating emissions and then eliminating…