First Aid Training, Emergency Response Awareness Built into New Virtual Reality App
by Lee Rickwood
The Mass Casualty 360 Video/VR simulation recreates a first responder’s initial walk-through and assessment of a major disaster or injury event,
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Giant Lithium-Ion Batteries Used to Store Energy, Stabilize Power Grids
by Lee Rickwood
New pilot projects underway in this country and elsewhere show familiar lithium-ion battery technology can power not just smartphones, but entire neighbourhoods.
How Apple, Microsoft, and Samsung push ecosystems in retail stores
Canada has been luckier than most countries in the sense that it is large enough a market to get various Apple Stores, Microsoft Stores and even the world’s first Samsung flagship store.
Holy Fake News! Pope Tackles Distorted Facts on Social Media
by Lee Rickwood
We may be our own last line of defence against fake news and purposeful social manipulation. That puts our media literacy, cognitive skills and critical thinking abilities to a real test. Severely tested, too, will be our economic skills and abilities. Fake news is cheap; real information and investigative journalism is expensive.
What Google gets right and what it doesn’t as a hardware maker
By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla
We’ve seen a mammoth harvest of new devices including the Pixel 2 smartphone, the Google Home family of smart speakers, a high-end convertible Chromebook as well as an A.I.-enabled selfie camera.
How Your Smartphone Can Help in an Emergency
By Christine Persaud
The smartphone can actually be a key tool in not only providing a means for you to reach out to first responders in the event of an emergency, but also to provide them with pertinent details when you aren’t in a capacity to do so.
Computer Hacks, Smartphone Tracks and “Evil Maid” Protection from Snowden, Citizen Lab, EFF
by Lee Rickwood
Protection against computer hacking, smartphone tracking and a nasty new entity known as the “evil maid” is available with new applications for mobile and desktop users.
Voice-Controlled Smart Speakers: What’s Out There and What’s Coming?
By Christine Persaud
There’s plenty of hype these days around voice control, smart speakers, and artificial intelligence (AI) assistants. How do they work? What do they do? And what options are available?