It’s been a while now since we’ve heard from the Liberals on the issue of innovation. Acute threats to the Canadian economy – from a budding trade war with the United States to ongoing doubts about the future of NAFTA – have forced the Liberals to step away from their original promise to create an “innovation economy,” and it’s entirely …
Canada’s marijuana companies are becoming known for developing best practices for a nascent industry that, if they do it right, could leave them well-positioned to dominate around the globe At first blush, the Canopy Growth Corp. operation in Smiths Falls, Ont., doesn’t look especially high tech. The building is an old industrial pile that used to be a Hershey chocolate …
Tech Data Canada has updated the e-commerce side of its Web site, bringing some of the new features introduced in recent updates in the United States north of the border for the first time. With the update to its shop.techdata.ca site, the distributor has modernized its Web presence, said Brian Aebig, vice president of sales for Tech Data Canada, introducing …
First debate was over government-subsidized space research IBM pitted a computer against two human debaters in the first public demonstration of artificial intelligence technology it’s been working on for more than five years. The company unveiled its Project Debater in San Francisco on Monday, asking it to make a case for government-subsidized space research — a topic it hadn’t studied …
Company is the latest tech giant to reckon with the moral and ethical implications of its government work Amid outrage at the separation of children from their asylum-seeking parents crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, a Microsoft partnership with the government agency overseeing the “zero tolerance” policy has come under scrutiny — including backlash from the company’s own employees. The Microsoft division responsible for selling cloud …
