By Yasmin Ranade
Waterloo-based Maplesoft, provider of mathematics-based software to STEM educators, researchers and engineers, has launched Maple Learn, a free, online learning tool to make it easier for students and researchers to analyse and solve mathematical problems. It is also cool to note that this software is powered by the world’s most powerful mathematics engine, which is used by NASA and the Canadian Space Agency.
by Lee Rickwood
There is a path open to us for reclaiming the initial promise and potential offered by the Internet and its many offspring.
by Lee Rickwood
To make informed decisions based on real-world information is to use data for good – particularly in a pandemic.
by Lee Rickwood
Data ethics will be the new currency as public protection and privacy regulation become the guidelines for digital decision-making in 2021.
By Yasmin Ranade
McAfee Corp. announced findings from its 2021 Consumer Security Mindset Report recently revealing that online alternatives continue to replace activities in people’s lives and routines that were once in-person. Convenience was cited as an important motivation.
by Lee Rickwood
New smart labels for food, other consumer products, even industrial processes, can be connected wirelessly to sources of power and contextual information.
by Lee Rickwood
Canadian technologies have been developed to reduce exposures, maintain distances, prevent contagion and help document other crucial activities in the on-going fight ever-increasing COVID-19 case numbers.
By Christine Persaud
I have to hand it to the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), organizers and producers of CES, for pivoting so quickly to offer a full digital event this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. CES is an important event and the wonder it brings to the industry is needed more than ever this year. How will it all go? Events commence the week of January 11, 2021, so it’s too early to tell.