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Wearables are on the rise, including a new category: neurotechnology. A headband that can track your brain activity sounds fun, but the data it collects should be stringently protected.
Elon Musk’s motor company is facing challenging times.
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The company’s fortunes could depend on celebrity CEO Elon Musk keeping focus.
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The Department of Justice will have to prove that Apple’s ‘closed’ platforms have hurt rather than helped its customers.
The US largely dominates the technology landscape.
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The lack of large, global European tech leaders might actually be a blessing.
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Digital twin technology is a huge boon for indoor farming and may hold the key to addressing rising global food scarcity.
A new mood tracker will ask users to rate how they feel both daily and in random moments.
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New features on Apple iOS 17 aim to give users insights into their mental health, but they may also shape how people see themselves.
Between 2012 and 2021, funding to U.S. tech startups jumped to $344 billion.
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Traditional businesses operate with an established solution to a known problem. Startups focus on a product or service no one else provides.
Academic performance improves when schools ban smartphones, research shows.
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The 2023 Global Education Monitoring Report proposed restrictions on the use of technology in the classroom.
An attendee interacts with a stall at the Collision tech conference in Toronto on June 28, 2023. Immigration Minister Sean Fraser announced a new tech talent recruitment strategy at the conference.
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Canada’s Tech Talent Strategy aims to draw global tech talent to the country, but faces hurdles like U.S. salary competition and high living costs.
In the absence of legal guidelines, companies need to establish internal processes for responsible use of AI.
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Companies that want to avoid the harms of AI, such as bias or privacy violations, lack clear-cut guidelines on how to act responsibly. That makes internal management and decision-making critical.
Small, proactive countermeasures can reduce digital distress and make us feel more empowered over our mental health.
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Many stressors may be coming from interactions with technology: small but frequent frustrations that quickly dissipate, but when added up trigger digital distress.
The U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation seized the assets of Silicon Valley Bank on March 10, 2023, marking the largest bank failure since Washington Mutual during the height of the 2008 financial crisis.
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Large Canadian banks are likely not at risk of bank failures, but history suggests smaller, more niche financial service firms could be.
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The numbers are less concerning when viewed in the bigger picture.
In ‘Grace and Frankie,’ the protagonists design a vibrator for use by older people.
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Technologies are now ubiquitous in everyday modern life, but ageism means that older adults are excluded from the design of the technologies that they use.
Peter Thiel: his plan to build a bunker-type lodge in remote NZ was stymied.
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Douglas Rushkoff’s Survival of the Richest is less about tech billionaires and their ‘bonkers’ escape plans than it is an entertaining primer on the various ills of late capitalism.
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The advice for years has been to use password managers. But even these don’t completely eliminate the risk of being compromised.
Bill C-18, the Online News Act, is trying to get the dominant digital platforms to negotiate mutually-acceptable agreements with Canada’s online news outlets.
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There’s no evidence that news outlets are worse off because of Google, Facebook and other aggregators. If anything, evidence shows that, overall, news outlets would be in worse shape without them.
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The company has managed to change some of its practices, but it is still butting heads with regulators and governments.
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There is a pervasive message from fashion, tech and the media that women can change their lives if they could be more confident.
From period trackers to pregnancy apps the industry is dominated by men.
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Many of these digital tools aimed at women are created by, invested in and marketed by men.