AI: Job Threat or Promotion Opportunity?
By Yasmin Ranade
AI is ubiquitous. Businesses are swarming to develop and apply AI applications, in almost every industry. Are employees just as eager to embrace AI?
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From Project Management to Communications: Apps For Business
By Christine Persaud
Apps aren’t just for play. There are many apps that are useful specifically for business purposes. Here, I’ll look at some additional apps that can help in four key business categories: project management, communication, general productivity, and transactions.
Public Consultations on Digital and Data Strategy Underway in Ontario
A new round of public consultations about our province’s digital and data strategy opens up this week, following the release of a third discussion paper about living and working in our data-driven society. The public can learn about key digital…
Alberta Calls on Artificial Intelligence to Boost Oil and Gas Production
by Lee Rickwood
For the oil and gas sector, there’s a potentially big payoff from big data.
What’s New From Google?
By Christine Persaud
At its Made by Google press event in New York city in mid-October, Google announced several new products and services across six core categories: smartphones, smart home, computing, headphones, and gaming.
Waterloo As ‘BlackBerry Town’ by Chuck Howitt
By Yasmin Ranade
Chuck Howitt’s new book, BlackBerry Town, delves into the rise of BlackBerry as it relates to the development of Kitchener-Waterloo’s reputation as an international tech hub.
BooknBrunch: The ‘Yummy’ Evolution of the Book Club
By Yasmin Ranade
Are book clubs evolving with the adoption of eReaders and limitless online book resources and reviews, not to mention the modernization of the local library? Yes and no, are my findings.
Art and Technology and the Future Are on Display
by Lee Rickwood
It is surely art for our digital times: full of pop culture references, packed with familiar gadgets, sprinkled with the occasional four-letter word, Steyerl’s art describes our daily interactions with technology with great insight.