Coffee Briefing Sept. 19 – Canada staggers in internet affordability in new report; ScotiaBank, JPMorgan team up; Amazon awards scholarships to 10 Canadian students; 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! Missed last week’s Coffee Briefing? We’ve got you covered. Canada continues to falter in internet affordability in new report According to a new report by SurfShark, Canada
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Exploring blockchain Flow using the smart contract language, Cadence, by building a website focused on collectiblesIn this tutorial, we’ll learn how to make a website that collects digital collectibles (or NFTs) on the blockchain Flow. We’ll use the smart contract language Cadence and React to make it happen. We’ll also
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Comparing languages and libraries with a spatial nearest neighbour problemPhoto by Emile Perron on UnsplashIntroductionIn my previous article, I presented how to solve the nearest neighbour problem using SQL and the Python libraries Geopandas and Scikit-learn.I’ll review the previous solutions and present new ones using other libraries and languages this time.
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Read moreRansomware is now a crisis, financial conference told
(On Monday I moderated a panel on ransomware at the annual SIBOS conference of the Swift IT messaging financial network, which this year is being held in Toronto. Some 8,000 business and technology executives from financial institutions around the world are here. Panel members included Adam Evans, senior vice president
Read moreIntroducing the 2023 Startup Battlefield Top 20 onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt
I’m thrilled to announce the Startup Battlefield 20 companies, pitching at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023. After last year’s big hit, TechCrunch editorial hand-selected 200 startups, out of thousands of applicants, to comprise the Startup Battlefield 200. This year, TechCrunch saw the highest number of applications across the largest spread of countries
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Just in case you're wondering what's happening in the sectors our team's going to talk about at Disrupt, we've put together a handy primer of surveys.
Read moreGoogle wants to map more of the world’s roads with expansion of ‘Road Mapper’ volunteer community
Google announced today that it is opening access to more contributors to participate in Road Mapper, a tool where you can add missing roads to Google Maps in areas of the world that need it most. The company also noted in today’s blog post that its contributors have mapped more
Read moreNews aggregator app SmartNews’ latest feature aims to tackle doomscrolling
News aggregator SmartNews is today launching a new feature that it hopes will help combat the anxiety associated with regularly consuming negative news — something often referred to as “doomscrolling.” Instead of encouraging impulsive scrolling through its headlines, the app’s new feature called SmartTake claims to offer a selection of
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