Google sets up latest Cloud Region in Montreal
By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla
Google’s first Canadian Cloud region opened in Montreal last week. It joins other Google Cloud Platform (GCP) regions in Oregon, Iowa, South Carolina, Northern Virginia.
Tag: technology
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,
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.
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.
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.
State of Smart Speakers in Canada
By Gadjo Sevilla
Every major technology company has invested in a smart assistant. Apple has the venerable yet hobbled Siri assistant, Google has Assistant, Microsoft has Cortana and Amazon dominates the US with its Alexa assistant running off Amazon Echo devices.
Data Drives Traffic Decisions on King St. as Toronto Joins Mobile App Program
by Lee Rickwood
“We can outsmart traffic together” is a rallying cry for users of traffic and navigation apps like Waze, and the programs in place to share crowd-sourced data with cities around the world.