Google is at the forefront of the trend to wearable computers with its new Google Glass. Phil Wu was among developers who signed up to try out the first version of Glass, selling at $1,500 a pop. Gillian Shaw talks to Phil about his experience so far using Glass. And then they take to the streets of downtown Vancouver for a Google Glass demo and tour that had people stopping to stare.
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Zimbabwe’s president of 33 years, Robert Mugabe, on Wednesday signed a new constitution which many believe offers the southern African country its first real hope for political and economic revival.
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The gentrification of rundown city neighbourhoods in a matter of anxiety and outrage worldwide as well as in Vancouver. Recent issues in Berlin have developed into a bitter campaign with neo-Nazi overtones.
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Sun music writer Francois Marchand chats with Hipposonic Studios manager Robert Darch and producer Colin Stewart about Vancouver’s heritage as a “studio city” and what the future holds in light of recent technological and business model changes.
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Host Randy Shore welcomes paleo nutritionist Travis Steward and St. Paul’s Hospital dietitian Sinead Feeney for a paleo diet cage match. Should you eat like a caveman? Should you eat like Alton Brown? How about eating like the Green Man, Randy Shore?
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There has to be a more efficient way to make technology work for us. Gillian Shaw chats with Steve Dotto, a long time geek, who is using technology to master the art of productivity.
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Why and where Taiwanese fisherman Hung Shih-cheng was killed last week is still unclear, but his death is a brutally vivid illustration of how quickly the competing territorial claims in the Far East can turn to bloodshed.
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Fears that the Egypt’s conservative Muslim Brotherhood has hijacked the secular Arab Spring revolution of 2011 were premature and the Islamist government of President Mohammed Morsi remains locked in a struggle for authority with the country’s dogged and influential judiciary.
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