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If the Wu-Tang produced it in '23 instead of '93, they'd have called it D.R.E.A.M. — because data rules everything around me. Where once our society brokered power based on strength of our arms and purse strings, the modern world is driven by data empowering algorithms to sort, silo and sell us out. These black box oracles of imperious and imperceptible decision-making deign who gets home loans, who gets bail, who finds love and who gets their kids taken from them by the state.  In their new book, How Data Happened: A…

A Dartmouth, N.S., startup company is taking the next step to scale up production of its super slick hull paint to a million litres a year.On Thursday, Graphite Innovation & Technologies announced it has raised $10 million in so-called series A financing — money invested after a startup demonstrates the potential to grow and generate revenues."This is a great opportunity for the company to go globally," CEO Mo AlGermozi told CBC News.The company makes anti-fouling marine coatings that it says reduce drag and increase…

Climate change is making major league sluggers into even hotter hitters, sending an extra 50 or so home runs a year over the fences, a new study found.Hotter, thinner air that allows balls to fly farther contributed a tiny bit to a surge in home runs since 2010, according to a statistical analysis by New Hampshire's Dartmouth College scientists published in Friday's Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. They analyzed 100,000 major league games and more than 200,000 balls put into play in the last few years…