Facebook CEO looking for answers to important questions
By Ted Kritsonis
Now that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg faced public scrutiny from U.S. lawmakers, the proceedings revealed just how aimless the monolith truly is.
Tag: technology
Digital Makeovers: AR, AI in Canada Changing the Face of Beauty Industry
by Lee Rickwood
Social media and e-commerce continue to drive much of the beauty industry’s sales online, and AI-enabled apps like those developed by Modiface recreate the valuable in-store experience of working with a makeup stylist or beautician.
Canadian Food App Turns Social Ordering into King Street Ritual
by Lee Rickwood
The app offers what it calls the Piggyback service, kind of a peer-to-peer delivery network inside of a company or office doing the ordering. If one worker is going to pick up a coffee, a co-worker can “piggyback” on that order and bring back two cups.
Montreal medical team enables world’s first-ever tele-ultrasound solution
By Yasmin Ranade
Montreal’s Reacts (Remote Education, Augmented Communication, Training and Supervision) platform, created by Innovative Imaging Technologies Inc. (IIT), will be used to revolutionize remote collaboration in portable ultrasound.
How the Smart Home is Getting Smarter
By Christine Persaud
A few years ago, the concept of the smart home typically meant a household where you could access YouTube and Netflix from your smart TV, turn your lights on and off from an app, and view live footage from a connected security camera on your phone or tablet.
When You Lose Internet Service, What’s Left? RightMesh and Mesh Networking
by Lee Rickwood
RightMesh has developed powerful responses to natural disasters, economic or technical inequities, and even those threats posed by legislation seen to undermine Net Neutrality.
Cybersecurity Essential for Autonomous and Connected Cars, Government and Industry Say
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.
Can Artificial Intelligence Make Sense of Confusing Privacy Policies?
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.