Brian Jackson

Former editorial director of IT World Canada. Current research director at Info-Tech

Articles by Brian Jackson

Ontario suffers wide disparities in school’s IT resources: Auditor General

Even in the City of Toronto, some schools have one computer for every student, wheres others have eight student sharing a single computer.

Hashtag Trending – Microsoft to replace Edge; protein-folding AI; Walmart’s gaming PCs

Microsoft killed Internet Explorer to launch Edge, but now it looks like it plans to kill that too. Google’s DeepMind AI team wins a protein-folding competition. And how bad are Walmart’s gaming PCs?

Do iRobot’s cloud-stored maps of my home represent a major privacy risk?

After some privacy experts raised issues around my new Roomba vacuum, I asked the company questions about how it handles user privacy.

Hashtag Trending – Uber’s e-scooter play; Nvidia’s AI-generated graphics; David St. Jacque’s space shirt

Uber is planning to buy an electric scooter company, Nvidia has created the first videogame with AI-generated graphics, and Canadian astronaut David St. Jacques went to space and all he got was this smart t-shirt.

On-stage customer photo highlights from AWS re:Invent

AWS customers appearing on stage at re:Invent shared how they are using cloud services to run huge mulitplayer deathmatches, provide better banking, deliver call centre services, and sell insurance.

AWS customers weigh in on re:Invent product launches: Firecracker, Time Stream, Partner Device Directory

We spoke with AWS customers and partners about the new services launched at re:Invent that they are excited about putting to work.

Unboxing for Business – Amazon DeepRacer AI training car

At AWS Re:Invent in Las Vegas, developers are learning how to train reinforcement machine learning models by teaching autonomous toy cars to speed around...

USMCA won’t affect Amazon Web Services Canada region: Gales

The new trade agreement makes specific mention of not requiring cloud services to be located in a country's territory.

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