- Canadians warned ‘troll farms’ could influence online debate before federal election: report a month ago – The centre says these online actors create social media accounts or hijack existing profiles, and even set up "troll farms" of employees paid to comment on traditional media websites
- Cybersecurity jobs expected to be in high demand in Canada, experts say a month ago – A recent Deloitte study found that Canadian companies will be hiring over 8,000 cybersecurity experts over the next two years.
- Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou arrested in Vancouver, faces extradition to U.S. a month ago – Canadian authorities have arrested the chief financial officer of Chinese tech giant Huawei Technologies in Vancouver.
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- La grand-messe annuelle de la technologie se prépare à Las Vegas 4 hours ago – Le Consumer Electronics Show (CES), grand rendez-vous annuel du milieu technologique, se déroulera du 8 au 11 janvier à Las Vegas. En présentant des milliers d'appareils électroniques, du panier pour chien connecté à la voiture du futur, ce secteur tentera de faire oublier les tensions commercial...
- La livraison de journaux perturbée par une cyberattaque aux États-Unis 3 days ago – Une attaque malveillante semblant provenir de l'extérieur des États-Unis a retardé samedi la distribution de plusieurs grands journaux américains, notamment le Los Angeles Times.
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- MIT researchers are now 3D-printing glass 2 days ago – While the thought of a machine that can squirt out endless ropes of molten glass is a bit frightening, the folks at MIT have just about perfected the process. In a paper published in 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing, researchers Chikara Inamura, Michael Stern, Daniel Lizardo, Peter Houk and...
- A look inside the Taipei 101 New Year’s Eve fireworks show as it goes green 3 days ago – One of the tallest buildings in the world, Taipei 101’s New Year’s Eve fireworks have become an iconic celebration since the first show at the end of 2004. But despite being a major tourism draw, the fireworks haven’t been immune to criticism. Over the past couple of years, as poor air quality be...
- Here’s how to play a game from Black Mirror’s Bandersnatch episode 3 days ago – If you’ve gone down the rabbit hole with Netflix’s latest Black Mirror release, there’s (at least) one more Easter egg out there. As some intrepid Reddit users discovered, you can actually visit two different versions of fictional software company Tuckersoft’s website and… spoilers ahead. On the ...
- Gillmor Gang: Next 2 days ago – The Gillmor Gang — Keith Teare, Esteban Kolsky, Frank Radice, Michael Markman and Steve Gillmor. 2019 — the year to come in review.
- The New Horizons probe buzzes the most distant object ever encountered first thing tomorrow 2 days ago – Four billion miles from Earth, the New Horizons probe that recently sent such lovely pictures of Pluto is drawing near to the most distant object mankind has ever come close to: Ultima Thule, a mysterious rock deep in the Kuiper belt. The historic rendezvous takes place early tomorrow morning. Th...
- NYSE operator’s crypto project Bakkt brings in $182M 2 days ago – Venture capitalists remain bullish on Bitcoin and its underlying technology despite sinking crypto prices.
- FCC will suspend most operations on Thursday if the shutdown continues 2 days ago – The Federal Communications Commission said on Monday that it will need to suspend most of its operations by the middle of Thursday if the partial government shutdown continues. The FCC will continue “work required for the protection of life and property,” as well as work related to spectrum aucti...
- In 2018 the ticketing industry finally killed the ‘sold-out’ show 2 days ago – Among the many myths that were laid low in 2018, perhaps none was as welcome to throngs of live-event fans as the fantasy of the sold-out show.
- This clever AI hid data from its creators to cheat at its appointed task 2 days ago – Depending on how paranoid you are, this research from Stanford and Google will be either terrifying or fascinating. A machine learning agent intended to transform aerial images into street maps and back was found to be cheating by hiding information it would need later in "a nearly imperceptible,...
- Tesla stock price crashes 10% on vehicle price cut, missed delivery estimates 6 hours ago – Tesla is starting out 2019 in the red following news it missed Wall Street’s delivery estimates. The company said in a letter to investors that it delivered 90,700 vehicles during the fourth quarter. That’s a bit shy of what analysts expected. This, in part, caused the company’s stock to open nea...
- The Roku Channel adds premium subscriptions alongside its free content 7 hours ago – The Roku Channel — Roku’s home to free, ad-supported content like movies, TV, sports and news — is expanding to include subscriptions. Essentially Roku’s own take on Amazon’s Prime Video Channels, users can now opt to add some 25 premium video subscriptions within the Roku Channel, centralizing t...
- FCC greenlights Soli, Google’s radar-based gesture tech 7 hours ago – Google has won U.S. regulatory approval to go ahead with a radar-based motion sensor that could make touchscreens look obsolete in the coming years. Known as the Soli Project, the initiative began in 2015 inside Google’s Advanced Technology and Projects unit, a group responsible for turning the g...
- Netflix pleads with people to stop doing the ‘Bird Box’ challenge 33 minutes ago – Netflix has issued a warning to its customers thanks to a meme challenge that has gone viral in which people are choosing to put blindfolds on and navigate the world around them just like the characters in the horror movie “Bird Box.” Let the hilarity and the hospital visits begin. For those who ...
- Behold Ultima Thule, the most distant object ever explored by a spacecraft 34 minutes ago – The New Horizons probe has just sent back its first real shots of Ultima Thule, a 21-mile-long rock or planetesimal deep in the reaches of the solar system — and now the most distant object ever visited up close by mankind. The principal investigator of the mission, Alan Stern, called the accompl...
- Report: Mary Meeker targets $1.25B for debut fund, called Bond an hour ago – Mary Meeker's Bond will be the first >$1 billion fund led by a woman.
- The Verge 2018 tech report card: AI 3 days ago – As for much of the tech industry, 2018 has been a year of reckoning for artificial intelligence. As AI systems have been integrated into more products and services, the technology’s shortcomings have become clearer. Researchers, companies, and the general public have all begun to grapple more wit...
- Samsung is reportedly making a budget Bixby-powered smart speaker 4 days ago – Samsung promised a Bixby-powered Galaxy Home smart speaker back in August, a premium device that could potentially compete against Apple’s HomePod and the Amazon Echo Plus. While that speaker still isn’t available and doesn’t have a set release date, the company is reportedly also planning a seco...
- The Verge 2018 tech report card: The US government 2 days ago – In 2018, tech needed government more than ever. We were surrounded by problems that the industry couldn’t solve on its own, whether it was Russian trolls, growing monopoly fears, or the ever-escalating pace of cybersecurity failures. Unfortunately, in the second year of undivided Republican contr...
- NASA spacecraft confirms successful flyby of distant Solar System object a day ago – NASA received a critical signal from one of its most distant spacecraft this morning, confirming that the vehicle had just flown by a tiny frozen rock in the outer reaches of the Solar System. That space probe, named New Horizons, has now made history. Currently located more than 4 billion miles ...
- People use anonymous question apps to learn about the world and themselves 6 hours ago – My Instagram followers want to know whether I like veggie chips and how many push-ups I can do in a row. The answer is no and one. On this week’s Why’d You Push That Button, Vox.com’s Kaitlyn Tiffany and I discuss anonymous question-and-answer apps — why do people use them, both to ask and receiv...
- This is the pop culture that helped us survive 2018 30 minutes ago – As always, the first days of January are a time to look back on the previous year and wrap it up into a neat package, usually by thinking “Oh geez, did that actually happen last year? It feels like that was a decade ago.” That’s why it can be fun to look back on our favorite things of the year, t...