Category: Technology
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Solar-powered internet drone completes first test flight
A Portuguese startup that aims to use solar-powered drones to provide wireless internet access to offline areas of the world claims to have successfully completed its maiden test flight. The company Quarkson plans to use the SkyOrbiter drones that will stay airborne for weeks, months or even years at a time and will fly at…
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Why this Billionaire is Betting Big on Bitcoin
Image by Jason Benjamin Flickr CC Reid Hoffman has an expert eye for promising tech startups. The LinkedIn chairman and co-founder’s early stakes in Facebook, Airbnb and Dropbox prove he’s able to see the next big thing before most of us even know what it is — and it’s paid off for him time and again.…
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CRTC is having a public hearing our current Canadian Internet Service
Image by photosteve101 Flickr CC The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission want’s to know how you feel about your internet. The regulator launched a major fact-finding process to assess whether Canada has the right telecommunications to be a world-class player in the digital economy. The CRTC plans to hold public consultations in the fall to ask if…
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We Are Wearables Meetup
Once again, We Are Wearables founder Tom Emrich marveled at the turnout of this month’s We Are Wearables – almost 800 people signed up for the event – which focused on wearable computing and augmented reality. The event featured a panel on AR from industry experts, the Canadian premiere of the Meta Glasses, augmented reality glasses…
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What You Need to Know Before Flying a Drone
Photography by Photosebia / Shutterstock.com Drones are awesome fun. They can bring out the inner kid in even the most jaded individual, but they can also land people in a lot of trouble. Here are some things every new drone owner should know before taking to the skies. How far you can fly is going…
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Montreal aims to become the wearable technology capital of Canada
Photo by Keoni Cabral Flickr CC Despite reports this past year citing Toronto as a hotbed of wearable technology — with roughly 15 companies producing products — several entrepreneurs and investors in Montreal insist their city is primed to take over within two to three years, particularly in clothing. In an interview, Tom Emrich, a Toronto-based consultant and…
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Wearable Technology Will Change These 4 Areas of Digital Marketing
Image courtesy of WeAreWearables Ask anyone in the tech industry where the future of mobile devices is trending and they’ll say wearable technology. While a lot of work remains to be done in research and development, the industry believes it’s only a few steps away from mainstream adoption. Not only is this significant for consumers,…
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When will wearables be for women?
Photo Courtesy of Sean Gallup, Getty Images Despite its colorful bands and fashion-focused ad campaigns, the Apple Watch doesn’t seem poised to make the most of the opportunity to attract a female consumer. While many women will likely still try on and buy an Apple Watch, it seems likely that the majority of the buyers…
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How Facebook knows your friends, better than you do
Image courtesy of Jennifer Daniel How does Facebook know who your friends are? There’s still a lot of confusion and misinformation about what Facebook’s doing when it “finds” your friends. Alas, Facebook’s actual process isn’t actually that sneaky or malicious. In fact, it involves this pretty complex academic field called, network science. In a nutshell, whenever you…
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The first 4K footage taken from a drone
The Phantom Flex4K camera, which can shoot more than 1,000 frames per second at 4K resolution, weighs 14 pounds without a lens or viewfinder. To get it off the ground, Brain Farm got help from Swedish drone manufacturer Intuitive Aerial to enhance an Aerigon drone with 40 percent more power, according to Popular Mechanics. The…
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New videos released on the Apple Watch
Following the abundance of information concerning the features and optional materials of the Apple Watch, the tech giant has now released a guided tour of how it all works. Functioning seamlessly with the iPhone, the wearable tech piece is envisaged to complete brief interactions in a more convenient way, as well as operations that were…
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Bell’s been tracking its customers habits
Gloria Nieto for The Globe and Mail The federal privacy watchdog says a Bell Canada targeted advertising program that tracks customers’ clicks, calls and television binges violated Canadians’ privacy rights. Canada’s privacy commissioner says Bell should have asked for express consent from its customers before beginning a data collection program that involves tracking their internet…
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How to invest in Bitcoin
People usually enter the wide world of cryptocurrencies after having learned about Bitcoin. The digital currency has a range of appeals which cater to all kinds of tastes. For a start, the cryptocurrency is decentralised, which means that no institution or entity can control it. Secondly, this derives from the previous point, it is universal.…
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Unlocking your phone could be as easy as taking a selfie
Image Courtesy of John Ragai Flickr CC Apple Inc. has been granted an official patent on a technology that uses facial recognition to unlock mobile phones. Published by The U.S. Patent and Trade Office Tuesday, the patent document shows that Apple has been developing this iPhone feature since at least 2011. Essentially, a user would bring the phone up to his or her face, at…
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Want To Get Your DNA Tested? There’s A Facebook App For That
Image Courtesy of WWW.ISGTW.ORG “Facebook” and “DNA” are two words you probably don’t want to hear in the same sentence. But an ambitious new research project, Genes for Good, is now using the social network to collect genetic information. The researchers heading up the project say that your information is safe with them — but…
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John Oliver talks with Edward Snowden about Government Surveillance
On April 5th, John Oliver sat down with Edward Snowden to discuss the NSA and Section 215’s renewal on June 1, 2015 and the debate the needs to happen to reform it. To their surprise the average American citizen is not aware of the NSA’s activities or who Edward Snowden is or how his actions have…
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GPS Easter Egg Hunt
It was an Easter egg hunt with a San Francisco twist. A tech startup took over downtown Friday afternoon for an Easter egg hunt and doled out some serious prize money. A crowd of hundreds gathered with their smartphones in hand. “We think of this as Easter egg hunt 2.0,” one man said. A company…
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Millennials are indifferent about digital privacy
A study released by the American Press Institute last month found that only 20% of Millennials worry all or most of the time about their digital privacy. Just two in 10 (20%) of Millennials worry about digital privacy “all/most of the time,” 46% said they worry “only a little” and 34% said they “don’t worry…
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Sagmeister & Walsh Make Security Tech Look Sexy
The makers of Fugue, a new software that simplifies the creation, operation, and regeneration of cloud infrastructure, wanted to, uh, disrupt stereotypical tech graphics. For their branding, they tapped the ever inventive New York-based design studio Sagmeister & Walsh. The designers created a calligraphic identity, app, and animated logo that changes based on user data.…
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Surveillance and Encryption
In January of this year, British Prime Minister David Cameron let it be known that he intended to dumb down encryption so that law enforcement could monitor all of the information streaming across the country. A direct attempt to capitalize on the Paris attacks. Today news about a police chief with Europol was advocating against…
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Surveillance and Encryption
In January of this year, British Prime Minister David Cameron let it be known that he intended to dumb down encryption so that law enforcement could monitor all of the information streaming across the country. A direct attempt to capitalize on the Paris attacks. Today news about a police chief with Europol was advocating against…
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Flying a drone is as simple as drawing a picture
What if the process of flying a drone were more simple, streamlined and more automated so anyone, regardless of skill could do it? That is the goal behind Ares, a new drone manufacturing startup. One major advancement has to do with drone flight safety and abiding by FAA regulations. If you happen to draw a…
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Flying a drone is as simple as drawing a picture
What if the process of flying a drone were more simple, streamlined and more automated so anyone, regardless of skill could do it? That is the goal behind Ares, a new drone manufacturing startup. One major advancement has to do with drone flight safety and abiding by FAA regulations. If you happen to draw a…
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Why you need to love Blockchain and Bitcoin
Most people following developments in Bitcoin are familiar with the often repeated mantra proclaiming that blockchain is an innovative technological breakthrough. The blockchain is a peer-to-peer public ledger maintained by a distributed network of computers.There is no central authority, and no need a trusted third party to process and verify transactions.Eliminating the need for third…
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Connecting the classroom
Image Credit: chanpipat / Shutterstock Did you know that the average American student spends 1025 hours in the classroom each year? And of that, 308 hours are lost to interruptions! That’s about 1 out of every 5 minutes are spent consumed by “anticipated interruptions” – transitions, materials distribution, and starting or ending class. What if…
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Why you need to love Blockchain and Bitcoin
Most people following developments in Bitcoin are familiar with the often repeated mantra proclaiming that blockchain is an innovative technological breakthrough. The blockchain is a peer-to-peer public ledger maintained by a distributed network of computers. There is no central authority, and no need a trusted third party to process and verify transactions. Eliminating the need…
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Connecting the classroom
Image Credit: chanpipat / Shutterstock Did you know that the average American student spends 1025 hours in the classroom each year? And of that, 308 hours are lost to interruptions! That’s about 1 out of every 5 minutes are spent consumed by “anticipated interruptions” – transitions, materials distribution, and starting or ending class. What if…
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Wearing your heart on your sleeve
At MakeFashion’s latest gala that brought together innovation and fashion, Radio Frequency Application Lab of Southern Institute of Technology and Promixa teamed up to showcase the literal electricity between two lovers. (Via Branding Magazine)
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Wearing your heart on your sleeve
At MakeFashion’s latest gala that brought together innovation and fashion, Radio Frequency Application Lab of Southern Institute of Technology and Promixa teamed up to showcase the literal electricity between two lovers. (Via Branding Magazine)
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Beware your car could be spying on you
Image Startup Bootcamp Modern vehicles are powerful data-scraping machines, warns a group of B.C. privacy advocates, and Canada urgently needs to regulate what companies can do with the information cars send them. “Policy-makers have to provide the guidance that the automotive industry desperately needs on how general principles of data protection apply in their sector,”…
Richelle Sibolboro 