It’s official: Alberta is the place to be.
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It knows when you are sleeping, it knows when you’re awake. No, it’s not Santa Claus. It’s your house. Smart technology has already enabled homeowners to control their utilities, their temperature, even their security from hand-held devices inside and outside the home. What’s next?
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In Thursday’s provincial budget, Finance Minister Doug Horner said all the right things about innovation, creating and bringing knowledge-based, made-in-Alberta products to the world.
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Lethbridge is home to a growing number of high-tech businesses, and a centre for new commerce is contributing to their success.
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The city is moving forward in its quest to become smarter.
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SHANGHAI — Manufacturers hoping to use 3-D printing technology to slash labor costs and bring some production back to the U.S. from China didn’t foresee this: China is furiously developing its own 3-D printing industry.
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CALGARY – Alberta tied British Columbia for the highest percentage of households in the country with home Internet access in 2012, according to Statistics Canada.
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EDMONTON – Alberta’s energy sector must learn to prosper in a world of much lower oil prices, warns Leo de Bever, CEO of Alberta Investment Management Corp., the province’s $70 billion public sector pension and endowment fund manager.
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EDMONTON – A $22 million project slated for Drayton Valley’s municipal landfill site could make burying garbage obsolete and provide energy from the reformed solid waste.
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FORT SASKATCHEWAN – An innovative pilot plant near Fort Saskatchewan is producing hydrogen — the key to powering fuel cells and upgrading bitumen — with frontier technology brought from a U.S. government laboratory in Idaho.
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