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When it came time to develop his legal startup’s sophomore product, Benjamin Alarie did exactly what successful entrepreneurs are supposed to do:…
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We’ve all heard that artificial intelligence and machine learning are poised to transform our lives with self-driving cars and voice-activated robotic…
1. What would you do if you spotted a wild animal in your proximity? 2. If you know that inflation forecasts were one per…
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The shape of our neurons may indicate our brains actually employ a type of learning, dubbed “deep learning,” that was developed to drive artificial…
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A University of Toronto PhD student has found that a little-known exoplanet called K2-18b could be a “super-Earth,” and in the process…
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U of T researchers have crunched the numbers from the King Street pilot project’s first two weeks in operation and found big improvements to travel…
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For the second year in a row, U of T students 18 and older can visit select museums and cultural institutions for free, thanks to a U of T Libraries…
Canada needs to stop trying to predict the future – instead, we should “educate great scientists and give them the freedom to think big,” says…
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Christine Allen will never forget Dec. 6, 1989. Today, Allen is a professor in the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of…
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We’re living through an important moment where people who have been through traumatic experiences feel more comfortable coming forward with their…
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Ronald Deibert, director of the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and a professor in the Faculty of Arts &…
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International students, including many from Hong Kong, are coming to the University of Toronto in greater numbers in the wake of Brexit and the…