Samira Balsara

Samira is a writer for IT World Canada. She is currently pursuing a journalism degree at Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly known as Ryerson) and hopes to become a news anchor or write journalistic profiles. You can email her at [email protected]

Articles by Samira Balsara

Student wins national competition for social media tool aimed at reducing misinformation

Arvin Jagayat, a psychology student at Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University), has received an award for his efforts to reduce the spread of...

Red Hat announces 2022 Innovation Award winners

Red Hat announced the winner of the 2022 Innovator of the Year award during its Red Hat Summit this week. For the 16th year, the...

Hashtag Trending May 12 – Netflix’s ad-supported subscription; U.S. generates 20 per cent of electricity with renewable energy; How digital abortion footprints could lead...

Netflix could roll out its service with ads by the end of the year, the U.S. generates 20 per cent of its electricity from...

Red Hat announces a series of new features and services, prioritizing hybrid cloud

Red Hat Inc, a provider of open source solutions, made a series of announcements focusing on hybrid cloud acceleration during its annual Red Hat Summit. 

Hashtag Trending May 11 – Apple says goodbye to the iPod Touch; Big tech companies face lawsuits from Russia; Tech companies laying off employees

Apple will discontinue its iPod Touch, big tech companies face lawsuits for pulling services in Russia, and tech companies are laying off employees due...

Red Hat and General Motors collaborate to help advance software-defined vehicles at the edge

Today at the Red Hat Summit 2022, open source solutions provider Red Hat and General Motors (GM) announced a partnership to help advance software-defined...

Hashtag Trending May 10 – Trump lawsuit dismissed; Apple chip vulnerability; Apple AI director leaves

A San Francisco district judge dismisses Donald Trump's lawsuit against Twitter, a new vulnerability is discovered in Apple’s chips, and Apple’s director of machine learning leaves his post.

Montreal-based startup to launch event platform

A Montreal-based startup is developing a mobile app event platform where users can post their own events and find things to do in their area.

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