Empowering change through DEI: Red Hat’s women in technology event highlights role models and success stories
On Jun. 7, Red Hat hosted its annual Women in Technology event, which celebrates the importance of women’s involvement in the technology industry, and gives women in the industry a space to talk about the barriers that still exist in tech today. From the venue in the Microsoft Canada head
Read moreCoffee Briefing Jun.13 – Seneca Polytechnic teams up with Microsoft and Sobeys; Desjardins gives voice to 400 young people; Pearson airport to deploy enhanced screening service; 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. Seneca Polytechnic team up with Microsoft and Sobeys to address shortage of cybersecurity analysts Seneca Polytechnic announced last
Read moreThe 20 best tech recruiting platforms to power your hiring
Introduction Today is an exciting time to be hiring software engineers. With the digital transformation, it’s no longer just tech companies who are hiring software engineers—thousands of companies in the finance, healthcare, retail, and government sectors are actively recruiting skilled technical talent. On top of that, rapid developments in artificial
Read moreUsing Caches Without Losing Friends: A Short Story
Photo by Felix Rostig on UnsplashAfter working at Zippin for the past four years, I have grown to love and hate caches equally. It has led to moments of great satisfaction in what we have built and discussed it heatedly with my brilliant colleagues.This article is a fictionalized account of a
Read morePebble Mobility wants to build the iPhone of electric RVs
Bingrui Yang knows a thing or two about hardware, software and how people interact with them — skills picked up during stints at Apple, Zoox and Cruise. Now he’s applying those tricks of the trade to RVs with Pebble Mobility, a California-based EV startup he founded that aims to change
Read moreHow I Automated a Business’ Order Fulfillment Process With LLMs
And the steps you can use to do it yourself with no codeI was introduced to an alcohol distribution business that was manually processing over 30,000 orders placed via email annually. Here’s how I used AgentHub to automate the ordering process with LLMs and the steps to do it yourself with
Read moreSo This is Your First Jam With Godot 4? Here is What You Should Know Beforehand!
Godot Logo (CC-BA-SA-3.0 Andrea Calabró) x GMTK Game Jam 2023 Logo (By Mark Brown)A guide to help you choose between Godot 3 and 4 for your game development, as well as some tips and tricks to avoid last-minute problems when using version 4 for a game jamThe GMTK Jam 2023 is around
Read moreCanadian firms slow in responding to cyber attacks, report suggests
It can take Canadian organizations up to 48 days to detect and recover from a cyber attack, according to a new survey of infosec professionals. The number is included in a survey of 553 Canadian IT security and risk and compliance professionals released today by CDW Canada. The mean time
Read moreCreate Custom SF Symbols for Your Apps
Learn how to use SF symbols to customize and display your imagesPhoto by insspirito from PixabaySymbol images are highly configurable, allowing you to style your images with finesse. With the introduction of SF Symbols 5 in 2023, you now have a vast library of over 5,000 symbols to integrate into your app.
Read moreOpenAI intros new generative text features while reducing pricing
As the competition in the generative AI space grows fiercer, OpenAI is upgrading its text-generating models while reducing pricing. Today, OpenAI announced the release of new versions of GPT-3.5-turbo and GPT-4, the latter being its latest text-generating AI, with a capability called function calling. As OpenAI explains in a blog
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