I suppose Canadians should breathe a sigh of relief. Accustomed as we may be to pleading with our political leaders — only to have those pleas fall on deaf ears — finally, the federal government has decided to modernize Canada’s rules regarding the digital data that has become so central to our lives. Minister of […]
Category Archives: Technology
Apple Inc. is planning a series of new Mac processors for introduction as early as 2021 that are aimed at outperforming Intel Corp.’s fastest. Chip engineers at the Cupertino, California-based technology giant are working on several successors to the M1 custom chip, Apple’s first Mac main processor that debuted in November. If they live up […]
To say the world has had a tough year would be an understatement. But Canada’s innovation economy provided a silver lining for the black clouds that dominated 2020. Faced with a pandemic and the worst economic conditions seen in a generation, the people and young companies at the foundation of this country’s technology sector have […]
With single-game sports betting about to go legit in Canada, the troika of DraftKings Inc., FanDuel Inc. and William Hill Plc that dominates the U.S. betting business is preparing to pounce. But an entrepreneurial father-son team has something their would-be rivals don’t: a legion of fans that have made their mobile app, theScore, among the […]
Facebook Inc.’s planned smart glasses will arrive “sooner than later” in 2021, but won’t feature the kind of digital overlay technology that is associated with augmented reality, according to hardware chief Andrew Bosworth. The glasses, which are being built in partnership with Ray-Ban and parent Luxottica Group SpA, will connect to a device — though […]
TORONTO – One of Canada’s most prominent technology darlings is being sold to a South Korean internet conglomerate in a US$600-million deal. Toronto-based online storytelling company Wattpad Corp. said its board of directors unanimously approved a cash and stock transaction Tuesday that will see it acquired by Naver later this year. The company will retain […]
It began innocently enough. An old high school friend began posting cryptic messages to Facebook — that something big was about to happen, and that we should look to the skies. Then it started to get stranger and more disturbing: first that Bill Gates was lying about something, then that the pandemic was a hoax. […]
Recently, in these seemingly interminable days of the pandemic, whenever a package has arrived at my doorstep from Amazon, I scurry outside to the porch and whisk it inside, glancing around to make sure the neighbours haven’t seen. I know I shouldn’t be ordering things from Amazon. I know that workers at Amazon’s warehouses are […]