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Canada is a leader in AI research – but that’s not enough

Discussions and debates about artificial intelligence abound today, and it has only deepened the extreme divide between developers and tech companies applauding advances, and naysayers warning about humanity’s potential destruction...

Canadian Tech Needs Redefine Its Sense of Scale

If, like me, you spend a lot of time poring over the latest in Canadian tech, chances are good that you see both the huge potential of our technology companies...

Transport Canada to study Hyperloop technology

Transport Canada wants to study the potential of hyperloop technology, a futuristic mode of high speed transportation envisioned by eccentric billionaire Elon Musk. The department put out a tender on March 27...

Let’s Talk Business: Information Technology Sector

This plays an important part in virtually every aspect of our lives. Of course, I’m talking about the information technology sector, or IT. The IT sector is made up of...

Reversing the flow of time on a quantum computer

We all mark days with clocks and calendars, but perhaps no timepiece is more immediate than a mirror. The changes we notice over the years vividly illustrate science's "arrow of...

Bold business ideas: Where is tech taking us?

For the first 250 metres it all goes well. I am in Singapore, in the back of a prototype driverless car, gazing at the other side of the road. Then...

Using Data To Build The Right Habits

Most New Year’s resolutions fail and by March, many of us have forgotten or given up on the plans we set out with on January 1st. Bad habits can be a...

Women helping drive Calgary’s tech renaissance

Alberta’s female entrepreneurs have doubled the national average in participation in technology according to the Alberta Enterprise Corp.’s 2018 Deal Flow study, which notes 70 per cent of the province’s...

It’s not too late to build a Canadian advantage in technology

Once again, Canada seems to see its future as a branch-plant economy. This time it is in the digital world, where we are turning to Big Tech from abroad rather...

ML-era in cybersecurity: A step toward a safer world or the brink of chaos?

While artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) have been transforming various fields of human activity for some time now, their full transformative potential is yet to be realized. ML-based...