How AI bias impacts women and people of colour the most
KAREN PANETTA: Artificial intelligence (AI) offers numerous benefits, but training with robust data is essential to developing quality AI systems
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Tag: Innovation
Canadian technology lowering emissions from oil and gas drilling
DEBORAH JAREMKO: Faster drill times, alternative fuels and batteries, and engine automation are just the beginning. The industry keeps evolving and innovating
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The harmful ban on single-use plastic products
GABRIEL GIGUERE: A ban on single use plastic products will impact some 93,000 jobs in the plastics industry. Most in Ontario
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Cleave keyboard offers accurate and effortless use
TECH GADGETS: The Truly Ergonomic Keyboard is designed to allow you to maximize your typing, with less fatigue and strain, while improving your posture
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Made-in-Alberta sanitizing device kills SARS-CoV-2 virus in 60 seconds
SCIENCE: The TESER ACT unit uses UV light to kill viruses and other common pathogens
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How much, how fast: Research sheds new light on carbon storage
ENVIRONMENT: Groundbreaking work could help industry find suitable sites and improve understanding of how to store carbon safely over the long term
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Driving artificial scarcity is not the way to effectively deploy 5G
VALENTIN PETKANTCHIN: Any gains in competition outweighed by higher spectrum costs, slower investment, and delayed deployment of 5G services (FREE)
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How the free market is driving an energy evolution
IAN MADSEN: Things are changing faster, and for the better, than radical environmentalists recognize or acknowledge (FREE)
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Inventor reimagines beer accessory to create a better mask
ENTREPRENEURSHIP: The masks needed to be reusable and sustainable. They also needed to be stylish, fit snugly, be comfortable and seal around the nose so the user’s glasses don’t fog up (FREE)
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Are self-checkouts winning the machine-versus-human battle?
SYLVAIN CHARLEBOIS: Before COVID-19, many Canadians felt uneasy about self-checkout counters at grocery stores. The pandemic is apparently changing that (FREE)
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Mining sector needs to get in on the hunt for strategic minerals
KEN COATES: Local access to these strategic minerals is crucial if we are to ensure the long-term viability of our technology sector (FREE)
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Independent grocers are a dying breed
SYLVAIN CHARLEBOIS: Most Canadians wouldn’t know that a lot of the innovation we’ve seen in food retailing in Canada has come from independents (FREE)
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