News Pick – Toronto is leading the charge of the global robot rising

July 21, 2017 – “For many people, the term “artificial intelligence” conjures up visions of brainy humanoid robots who frequently have a bone to pick with their mortal creators. We can blame pop culture for that. From 2001: A Space Odyssey’s deranged (and disembodied) HAL 9000 and the doomed replicants of Blade Runner to the […]

News Pick – Toronto is the fastest growing tech market in North America

July 20, 2017 – “Toronto has been named the fastest growing tech market in North America by the CBRE’s 2017 North American Scoring Tech Talent report. The city even beat out the technology hotbeds of San Francisco and New York City combined, shooting up from 12th to sixth in an overall annual ranking. From 2015 […]

News Pick – Finally, a way to halt Canada’s ‘brain drain’

July 10, 2017 – “What a difference a year makes. When David Duvenaud took a job as an assistant professor in computer science and statistics at the University of Toronto in 2016, the word “post-truth” was yet to be found in the Oxford English Dictionary, Donald Trump’s presidency was still a punchline and Brexit sounded […]

News Pick – These countries have the most positive influence on the world

July 7, 2017 – “The idea of the United States as a “shining city upon a hill” is most closely associated with President Ronald Reagan but has been used by politicians since the country’s earliest days. The founding founders wanted America to be a beacon of freedom and democracy that would light the way for […]

News Pick – U.S. venture capital and tech expertise are flowing to Canada

July 6, 2017 – “Canada is making an open and determined play to attract tech stars and investors to move north amid the squeeze of immigrants by President Donald Trump, and they are starting to respond. Salim Teja, director of venture services for Mars, Toronto’s sprawling innovation hub, tells Axios that hundreds of tech workers […]