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Government of Canada invests $10 million to support innovation in the tech sector

Today the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario (FedDev Ontario), announced an investment of C$10 million for the Waterloo Accelerator Centre (Waterloo AC)...

Hashtag Trending – Alexa is creepy now; baseball on Facebook; nanotech vision

People are waiting to see if Alexa’s laughing fits are really over, Facebook signs an exclusive deal to livestream 25 Major League Baseball games, and you can go ahead and throw your glasses out - nanotechnology is going to fix your eyes.

Hashtag Trending – Google grasps quantum supremacy; nanobots kill cancer; Uber’s wages

Google takes one step closer to achieving quantum supremacy. Scientists use nanobots to kill cancer in mice. And Uber fires back on a study about how much its drivers are paid.

Your Android phone, under water (Don’t panic)

Last week I mentioned a couple of projects using crowdfunding to bring ideas to the marketplace. Since then I’ve heard from another Canadian company using...

Will nanotechnology lengthen retirement age?

Nanobots will soon wipe out cancer, back up memories and slow aging making humans immortal by 2040, according to futurist Ray Kurweil. Does that mean we

IBM examines nanotube chip cooling

IBM researchers are looking at ways to understand heat dissipation in carbon nanotubes. The study will help chip developers determine how to better cool laptops that will be using the new and faster transistor-packed nanotubes

Beware of the ‘electronic butler’ in 2008

As people post information on Facebook and make online purchases, fraud will be the biggest IT issue this year, according to Deloitte Research Canada. Plus: Why COBOL programmers shouldn

Xerox saves toner and energy with nanotechnology

Researchers at the Xerox Research Centre of Canada (XRCC) received the 2005 Best Emerging Technology Award from CATAAlliance for their environmentally-friendly toner technology, called Emulsion Aggregation (EA). EA, the company says, has several advantages over standard toner technologies

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