Toronto Reads – Digital Downloads on the Rise; Staffless Libraries, Too?
by Lee Rickwood
Anyone with a valid library card can get digital downloads from the Toronto Public Library – and millions do!
by Lee Rickwood
Anyone with a valid library card can get digital downloads from the Toronto Public Library – and millions do!
By Gadjo Sevilla
The service tracks user information such as behaviours, images, and interests and sells these to advertisers. It shapes the user experience to push various ads and news, real or fake, based on what a user likes, reads or who they follow.
by Lee Rickwood
Open source software concepts; quality control mechanisms; licensing and regulatory standards; industry peer review mechanisms and even product recall provisions for AI-enabled products and services must be considered.
by Lee Rickwood
There are several global competitors in the growing satellite services business, and one of the fastest developing companies is based in Toronto.
By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla
The slim and elegant MSI PS42 and the beefier yet vastly more performant MSI P65 both offer the latest 8th Generation Intel Core i7 processors (in quad-core and six-core variants), large 32GB of RAM and fast SSDs.
by Lee Rickwood
A new Canadian tech report says the large-scale collection and sale of user private data has grave implications for our online safety, security and protection.
by Lee Rickwood
Facial recognition is bringing new ways to collect demographic information about each and every one of us by linking visual imagery with existing datasets of shopping habits, personal preferences, stated opinions and more.
Leading privacy advocates and technology analysts say Toronto should smarten up: it is at risk of becoming a city of surveillance. They are worried about plans for urban redevelopment along the city’s eastern waterfront, and a new techno-enabled community to…