About Lee Rickwood
Lee Rickwood covers developments in media and technology with particular interest in how such developments affect our social, political and economic activities and interactions.
by Lee Rickwood
As more efficient and effective tools for monitoring computer activity, data exchange and even personal activities are deployed, openly accessible policies and publicly posted procedures are required for the workplace, the school, the home and the public arena.
by Lee Rickwood
Data privacy, ad blocking and help to monetize your personal digital information is offered in a new software tool from a Canadian tech start-up.
by Lee Rickwood
Up to 100 health care technology projects for senior citizens are being developed by small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) in Canada.
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The developer of one of the hottest – and potentially most valuable – apps right now says his software is “incredibly limited, but good enough … to create a misleading impression of greatness.”
by Lee Rickwood
Robots with pizzas. Grocery trucks without drivers. Autonomous vehicles are changing the way we get our food delivered.
by Lee Rickwood
WiFi sensing tools from leading Canadian tech companies make use of predictive analytics to give behavioural insights about people in the home.
by Lee Rickwood
Medical technologies, including wearable brain-imaging gear, new AI and VR programs and advanced ‘hyperscanning’ applications, are being used to peer inside the brain − while it operates.
by Lee Rickwood
Our data has even greater value than we suspect: Values are the weights we use in the never-ending balancing act of life. Be they moral groundings or simple price points.