Pentagon wants autonomous surveillance vehicles that can distinguish friend from foe in urban areas
Soldiers operating in urban environments have to make quick decisions when assessing whether someone means to do them harm or...
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Natl critical & emerging tech strategy aims to beat China with American innovation, democratic values
The White House unveils a national strategy that promotes American innovation and democratic values while protecting its critical and emerging...
A lesson on resilience: What the Canadian SaaS industry learned during the pandemic
The pandemic hit Canadian SaaS funding hard. SaaS companies have raised one fifth of 2019 numbers so far this year,...
‘Censor social media content & harvest data from banned accounts’: House Intel witnesses testify on combating misinformation
Expert witnesses tell the House Intelligence Committee how to best combat "misinformation" online with more content restriction on social media...
Online censorship is toppling statues that haven’t been built yet: op-ed
To the victors go the spoils, they say, but in the siege of online censorship over freedom of thought, the...
‘The future’s gonna be weird’: Musk says memories could be downloaded into a new body or robot
"The future's gonna be weird," said Elon Musk as he calmly described how Neuralink could one day allow people to...
Facebook to censor anything it deems necessary to avoid ‘adverse legal or regulatory impacts’
Facebook will start removing user content that could get the social media giant into legal or regulatory trouble in a...
Fitbit unveils new stress detecting features as Google awaits acquisition
If successful in acquiring Fitbit, Google may soon know even more intimate details about your emotional states as Fitbit today...
Origins of UFO technology theories: secret space programs, ETs & time traveling humans
As the Pentagon formally confirms the existence of UFOs while setting up an Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) task force, the...
Big tech CEOs give Congress the 5 Ds of Dodgeball on anti-competitive behavior
Today, some 20,000 people on YouTube tuned-in on to a Congressional hearing where the CEOs of Google, Facebook, Apple, and...
How to shape a successful work culture during COVID-19
Around the world, our work environments have been disrupted by the stay-at-home measures implemented to combat the spread of COVID-19....
Tech tackling human trafficking should empower victims, enable law enforcement: House witness testimony
Children make up 20 percent of human trafficking victims worldwide, and sexual exploitation is the most common form of human...
AI governance and the future of humanity with the Rockefeller Foundation’s senior VP of innovation
As the progenitors of artificial intelligence, how we care for and nurture this paradigm-shifting technology will determine how it grows...
Can the winners of the 5G race be trusted to secure its data & infrastructure?
The race to 5G supremacy is almost always pitted as a competition between the US and China with each nation...
How healthcare is vulnerable to cyber attacks, assassinations & geopolitical agendas
Assassination by hacking medical devices, fomenting geopolitical instability by sabotaging infrastructure and stealing research, and holding patient data for ransomware...
Solace, the event broker tech company providing ‘digital plumbing’ for data movement
“So, you’ve probably heard of data,” Cameron Conaway, Director of Marketing Communications at Ottawa-based software company Solace told The Sociable,...
Facebook says it doesn’t benefit from hate, but its algorithms tell a different story: op-ed
At a time when huge companies are suspending their advertising campaigns on Facebook, the social media giant claims it doesn't...
How market research can drive the maximum potential of human-AI interaction
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With just a single glimpse at the latest statistics, one could easily assume that the market research industry is going...
Pandemic exposes Canadian entrepreneurial ecosystem’s gender parity problem
In Canada, women account for approximately 28 percent of the country’s entrepreneurs, according to a 2019 study by the Business...
Pentagon taps private sector to develop drone swarms that can track people, objects in congested areas
The Pentagon's Defense Innovation Unit is calling on the private sector to develop autonomous drones that can track people, vehicles,...
