Coffee Briefing Feb. 13 – TD trains employees using VR; Galaxy Broadband provides satellite services to Shared Services Canada; Canada ranks 14th globally in mobile network reliability; 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 the last Coffee Briefing? We’ve got you covered. TD uses VR to train branch employees TD has announced that it has started using virtual reality (VR)
Read more$13M and 3 years later, Superlist hopes to become a decacorn. But will it?
The former founder of a to-do lists app which sold for as much as $200 million, comes back, nine years later, with yet another app to do the same thing. Really? It’s a story that would be hard to make up, but it’s happening. I guess you can’t keep a
Read moreEpic Games CEO suggests Apple broke iPhone web apps in the EU for anticompetitive reasons
After Apple confirmed yesterday it’s breaking web apps for customers in the EU due to its compliance with the EU regulation the Digital Markets Act (DMA), Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney suggests in post on X there’s another reason behind Apple’s decision: iPhone web apps don’t make Apple money. Sweeney,
Read moreAtlas helps companies offer contractor benefits no matter where they are located
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Read moreA Wyze outage is cutting off people’s access to their security cameras
Image: Wyze Wyze owners with security cameras, dashcams, and other smart home devices are reporting this morning that they can’t access them and that its apps are returning error messages. Users in the Wyze Discord report the problems began as early as 4AM ET, and reports of the issue popped
Read moreCyber Security Today, Feb. 16, 2024 – US takes down Russian botnet of routers
U.S. takes down Russian botnet of routers. Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It’s Friday, February 16th, 2024. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com and TechNewsday.com in the U.S. American authorities have neutralized a botnet of hundreds of compromised small and home office routers that Russia’s military cyber
Read moreUnlocking AI-Powered Protection
The recent unveiling of Check Point Software Technologies’ Infinity Platform represents a significant leap forward in AI-powered, cloud-delivered cybersecurity, offering comprehensive protection against the evolving threat landscape. Gil Shwed, CEO & Founder of Check Point Software Technologies, recently provided insights into the redefined Infinity Platform, marking its development as a
Read moreIndian regulator extends Paytm Payments Bank restrictions deadline
India’s central bank has extended the deadline for some business restrictions on Paytm’s Payments Bank to March 15 in “larger public interest,” dashing hopes of any major concessions but allowing extra time to comply. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said on Friday that Paytm Payments Bank will be barred
Read moreClubhouse’s new feature turns your texts into custom voice messages
Clubhouse, the once-popular live audio app, today announced users can now text their friends, and they’ll hear those texts in the sender’s custom voice. To stay relevant amid user drop-off, Clubhouse debuted group voice chats where members can send asynchronous voice messages to each other, and they would appear in
Read moreAnthropic takes steps to prevent election misinformation
Ahead of the 2024 U.S. presidential election, Anthropic, the well-funded AI startup, is testing a technology to detect when users of its GenAI chatbot ask about political topics and redirect those users to “authoritative” sources of voting information. Called Prompt Shield, the technology, which relies on a combination of AI
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