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Smart cities, difficult choices: privacy and security on the grid

June 18, 2019 admin advertising, maps, privacy, Smart Cities, smart city, Toronto, tracking, waterfront, wifi

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 17:17:08 +0000

We take a look at Google’s Sidewalk Labs woes with a planned smart city build in Toronto, and explore some of the general concerns about making our living spaces 24/7 Internet wonderlands.

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Google Wants to Build the ‘City of the Future’ in Toronto, and Locals Are Worried

November 2, 2017 admin ACORN canada, affordable housing, Canada, google, privacy, Read, sidewalk toronto, Toronto, Transit

Credit to Author: Jacob Dubé| Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2017 18:25:26 +0000

Affordable housing activists were out at a town hall to make themselves heard.

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This Guy Is Living His Best Life as a Professional D&D Dungeon Master

October 30, 2017 admin Dungeon Master, Dungeons and Dragons, Fantasy Role Playing, Read, stranger things, Toronto, unusual jobs

Credit to Author: Jacob Dubé| Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2017 18:49:00 +0000

‘Stranger Things has brought me a lot of customers.’

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Destroy Oil Pipelines as a Thunderbird in this New Video Game

October 19, 2017 admin Anishinaabe, digital divide, elizabeth lapensee, fossil fuels, imagineNATIVE, Indigenous, METIS, Oil, Oil and Gas, oilsands, Pipeline, pipelines, Read, straits of mackinac, Super Mario Bros, thunderbird, Toronto, VIDEO GAME, Videogame

Credit to Author: Jacob Dubé| Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2017 13:00:00 +0000

Thunderbird Strike is the latest from Indigenous developer Elizabeth LaPensée.

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Canada Is Looking to Airbnb to Help Fix Its Housing Crisis

October 5, 2017 admin affordable housing, Airbnb, Canada, housing, HOUSING CRISIS, news, tech, Toronto, vancouver

Credit to Author: Jordan Pearson| Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2017 14:00:00 +0000

This is a terrible idea.

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I Squeezed the Pixel 2 to Test Out Our Buttonless Future

October 4, 2017 admin AI, buttonless, Buttons!, google, pixel, Pixel 2, Products, Read, Smartphone, squeeze, Toronto

Credit to Author: Jacob Dubé| Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2017 20:28:25 +0000

Google’s new phone can identify an “intentional squeeze.”

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Toronto’s New Auditory ‘Beacons’ Will Help Blind People Navigate Downtown

September 12, 2017 admin BLIND, blindsquare, Bluetooth, Canada, Cities, Disabilities, disability, GPS, kontakt.io, Read, Toronto, urbanization, visually-impaired

Credit to Author: Alison Motluk| Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2017 12:00:00 +0000

They transmit navigation data directly to blind people’s phones.

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Hoarders Are Confronting Clutter in Virtual Reality

September 11, 2017 admin claustrophobia, clutter, discoveries, hoarder, hoarders, mental health, mess, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, OCD, psychotherapy, Read, Ryerson University, Toronto, virtual reality, VR

Credit to Author: Jacob Dubé| Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2017 16:27:18 +0000

Researchers are using VR to surround diagnosed hoarders with clutter. I tried it out.

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