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Analyst reacts strongly to news Oracle has ‘surveillance machine’

The case of a software giant selling personal data to a third party is troubling, Iris Akwetey, senior research analyst with Info-Tech Research said...

Google updates its search engine to demote clickbait

Google will be making changes to its search engine rankings to promote original content over purely search engine optimized articles that fail to inform...

Canada’s retailers now have ‘one-stop’ platform to access up-to-date data

The Retail Council of Canada (RCC) today launched the Retail Pulse Dashboard, an initiative developed by KPMG Canada designed to allow Canadian retailers to...

AI-based AccessNow, Daniels to map accessibility of Regent Park

An announcement late last week involving builder and developer The Daniels Corporation and accessibility technology company AccessNow represents a major step forward in determining...

Is Queen’s Park set to change health records rules? One expert thinks so

It was not a proclamation or even confirmation, but more of a hint that big changes might be afoot in Ontario when it comes...

SAS Hackathon 2022 winners decode real-world problems using data

This week, SAS announced the winners of its 2022 SAS Hackathon. From 70 qualifying teams from around the world and 50 business case submissions, SAS...

Coffee Briefing June 21 , 2022 – SAS’s Batting Lab; Sage rolls out new platforms; Telus acquires LifeWorks; and more

Coffee Briefings are timely deliveries of the latest ITWC headlines, interviews, and podcasts. Today’s Coffee Briefing is delivered by IT World Canada’s editorial team!

Newfoundland and Labrador to strengthen its research and innovation with a new $18-million investment

IBM Canada, the Government of Canada and the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador have announced an investment of more than C$18 million to strengthen...

Kitchener biotech company acquires U of T lab-in-a-box startup LSK Technologies

Nicoya Lifesciences acquires LSK Technologies, a U of T startup decentralizing laboratory testing with its high-throughput lab-in-a-box platform.

Toronto to get Walmart Tech Hub and hundreds of tech jobs 

Toronto to become home to a larger Walmart Global Tech hub which will generate hundreds of jobs for Canada's local tech talent

Big data vendors have satisfying features and capabilities, but fall short on training and intuitiveness

SoftwareReviews recently released a list of the most satisfying big data software vendors, based on user reviews, and Amazon Web Services Big Data, IBM...

How SAQ and CAMH are driving results with data analytics

Analytics is a broad term, encompassing everything from basic statistics to the complex algorithms used in artificial intelligence. Yet organizations of all types can...

New ITAC report encourages government to promote a ‘data marketplace’

The Information Technology Association of Canada is encouraging the federal government to promote a "data marketplace" in which data is treated as a commodity that consumers have a degree of control over and that companies can use in their pursuit of data-driven innovation.

Federal government launches consultations for national data strategy

Even before Facebook's Cambridge Analytica scandal started making headlines, experts were sounding the alarm about how the mountains of data generated by Canadians' online...

Hashtag Trending – Uber wants AI to identify drunk riders; Apple bans cryptocurrency mining; Seattle repeals ‘Amazon tax’

Uber wants to use artificial intelligence to identify whether a prospective passenger is drunk. Apple has banned cryptocurrency mining from its app store. And...

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