Fire Safety at Home: AR App, Online Tools, Special Events Help Canadians Avoid Disaster
by Lee Rickwood
Wildfires are dangerous and deadly, yes, but residential fires are the leading cause of fire-related death in Canada.
Tag: Women & Tech
Canadian Woman Plays a Part in Reducing Global Shipping Emissions
By Lee Rickwood
The global shipping industry is a major polluter—but one Canadian woman is helping change that. Through bold innovation and international collaboration, she’s proving that one person can make waves on a global scale.
Can High-Tech Film Stop Billions of Bird Strikes – or is DIY the Route to Protect Migratory Birds?
A billion birds? The image is hard to process. Even more so a billion dead birds. But that’s what’s been counted on an annual basis in North America. Crashes into windows kill 16 to 42 million birds a year in…
Can AI Bring Hope? Using Technology to Detect Depression and Anxiety in Aging Adults
A group of Canadian health care specialists, researchers and technologists is using Wi-Fi-based motion sensor data to detect depression in older adults. The research, conducted at McGill University and the Mila-Quebec AI Institute, looked into how artificial intelligence can be…
Tired? Anxious? Moody? Canadian App Maker Says Breathe Deep, Have a Drink …of Water
By Lee Rickwood
One could find many reasons to be tired, anxious or moody these days. Personal, professional, political. But there’s a Canadian app maker offering a healthy response: Take a deep breath. Drink plenty of water. The App Store award-winning developer Llama…
Woman Leader Discusses Levelling the Field in Canadian Tech
By Yasmin Ranade
When we can openly and honestly recognize the systemic barriers that women in tech face, the dial moves closer to a more equitable and accessible future for all.
High-Tech Tables Blur the Lines Between Real and Virtual, Medicine and Gaming, Teaching and Learning
by Lee Rickwood
These high-tech tables display life-size digitized versions of human bodies for an accurate 3-D representation and simulation of real anatomy, physiology, and pathology.
Art’s Got Heart – and Galleries Have the Technology to Prove It
by Lee Rickwood
Technology enables the presentation of great art; it can also show us how art affects our hearts and minds.