Turbulence on Air Canada flight from China injures 21

A Canada-bound airliner was forced to make an emergency landing after severe turbulence injured 21 passengers, including three children, officials said. The Air Canada flight from Shanghai to Toronto was diverted to Calgary after the turbulence hit. Eight passengers suffered neck and back injuries and 13 more were taken to hospital for observation. Those hurt were in a stable condition, an emergency services spokesman said. Air Canada's chief operating officer Klaus Goersch said passengers had been through a "very unsettling experience". The Boeing 777 with 332 passengers and 19 crew on board landed at Calgary without further incident, the airline said in a statement. Passengers described the experience. "To start with it was just OK, normal just up and down, and all of a sudden it was really violent and just shaking everybody," said Yi Lee. "Suddenly the flight is just going down and everything is really scary. The girl sitting next to me, she was sleeping and she just fly up (to the ceiling)," said Linda He. Mr Goersch praised the crew's response and said some of the passengers taken to hospital had quickly been discharged.

Silicon Valley heads to Canada for Artificial Intelligence experts

Artificial Intelligence (AI) - the technology that powers digital assistants, voice recognition software and even robots - is one of the pillars of the fast-moving tech industry. And Silicon Valley is eyeing Canadian talent to fulfil its AI dreams. Jellyfish with tiny jets can turn on a dimeFuturity The Ultimate Way to Get Cheap Hotel RoomsSave70 Recommended By Colombia According to a report by Bloomberg, Canada - a leader in the field of AI - has become a favoured hunting ground for Silicon Valley companies seeking experts in this field. "Several leading Canadian researchers and professors have defected to U.S. tech companies such as Google. Top US universities are scooping up AI experts, too. They're in hot demand because the emerging technology will underpin the next wave of innovation - from self-driving cars and personal assistants to smarter prosthetic limbs and industrial robots," the report said. Top Comment Good, Canada is going to be another silicon valleySanatan Issar The report says in just three years, University of Alberta lost influential professor Kevin Murphy to Google; University of British Columbia researcher Nando de Freitas shifted base to Oxford University and now works part-time at Google. Renowned University of Toronto professor Ruslan Salakhutdinov recently said he'll go to work for the machine learning department at Carnegie Mellon University. In 2013, Google acquired image-recognition startup DNNresearch, co-founded by University of Toronto professor Geoffrey Hinton, who helped develop the neural network technology. Twitter recently purchased Whetlab, a machine-learning startup whose founders include four University of Toronto alums, says Bloomberg. The brain drain has not gone unnoticed in Canada, where the AI community is opening more accelerators and new programmes dedicated to research in the field

Star Wars film breaks opening night box office record

The new Star Wars film has set a new opening night box office record in the US and Canada, industry experts said. Star Wars: The Force Awakens made $57m (£38m) on Thursday night, beating the previous record of $43.5m held by Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 2 in 2011. Analysts say the space saga could become the biggest selling movie of all time. The film also set a new opening day box office record in the UK and Ireland. The £9.64m tally beat the previous best of £9.48m set by Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2. Midnight screenings on Thursday morning accounted for £2.4m of ticket sales.