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
“We can outsmart traffic together” is a rallying cry for users of traffic and navigation apps like Waze, and the programs in place to share crowd-sourced data with cities around the world.
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Innovative made-in-Canada technologies are now available to quickly identify the molecules, pathogens and symptoms of infectious disease activity.
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A recent review of popular online apps used in Canadian classrooms identified privacy issues related to educational applications targeted at students in kindergarten up to grade 12.
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The government is collaborating with academia and the private sector to tackle the economic, societal and technical challenges to a safe and resilient Internet head on.
by Lee Rickwood
One of the world’s most successful women entrepreneurs teamed up with the premier of Ontario to support and encourage women entrepreneurs in Canada, China and elsewhere.
by Lee Rickwood
At a tech industry event being staged in Toronto, more than a dozen product developers and exhibitors are showing off wearables with a difference.
by Lee Rickwood
AssemblyLine helps automate and customize the search for harmful files, helping IT security people quickly identify uninfected files and let them focus their energy on fighting the most harmful ones.
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Quantum computing is the next giant step in computing power; developers working in artificial intelligence and machine learning are thrilled, data privacy advocates and IT security managers are scared.