By Yasmin Ranade
With the new federal budget announced at the end of February 2018, I wondered what tech professionals and thought leaders were hoping for. Were some looking for increased tech and STEM-related spending for Canadian businesses? Were others looking for incentives to bring new global tech companies to Canada, which would employ Canadian technologists? Would the Government increase spending for STEM in schools?
By Lee Rickwood
The country is ill-prepared for the future.
That’s the concerning essence of a Canadian government report on autonomous and connected cars that acknowledges its own regulation and coordination hasn’t kept up with industry’s pedal-to-the-metal approach.
By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla
At the end of my mission to digitize my CD collection, I expect to get rid of hundreds of physical CDs which I no longer have the apparatus to play back.
by Lee Rickwood
A new privacy protection tool uses artificial intelligence to analyze privacy policies, giving information about the types of data a website collects, what that site does with the data, and what if anything a user can do about it.
By Christine Persaud
As AI develops further, several companies are looking at ways that they can innovate and enhance jobs (and, let’s not sugar-coat it, reduce the cost of a human workforce), whether entry-level or highly-skilled, through the use of robots.
By Yasmin Ranade
I had the opportunity this month to interview Jeff Cates, President, Intuit Canada, to discuss the value of AI and data-driven insights for small business owners and accountants.
By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla
Despite all these technological leaps, our workspaces have remained constant, unchanged and desperately dated. Clinging on to work habits and realities established decades ago, many offices are cubicle mazes or rows of tables surrounded by artificially lit fixtures.
by Lee Rickwood
A small Canadian tech startup company says it plans to offer cheaper telecom service using satellites not much bigger than a breadbox.