Online bullying and trolls are the darker side of social media. Twitter's Chief Executive Officer stated in a February聽2015 memo聽that he wanted聽to make聽it a corporate priority to聽detect聽abuse and...
Yesterday (September 6, 2016)聽saw the launch of a new book by Cathy O'Neil with the provactive聽title聽Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy. O'Neil...
Phishing messages typically get 5-10% response rates, but a new system has boosted its rate to 40%.聽John Seymour and Phil Tully, two聽data scientists from the security company聽ZeroFOX, presented...
Last Friday's edition of The Globe and Mail newspaper included a story on聽how predictive聽analytics might help decrease university drop-out rates. Several Data Science companies, including聽聽IBM鈥檚...
What causes depression? Of course, life circumstances such as traumatic events, severe stress or grief play a role, but heredity studies have shown that a genetic predisposition to depression is...
The end of September saw the formation of a new team of rivals: the Partnership on AI, whose motto is "to benefit people and society". The partnership聽includes tech giants Amazon, Google and its...
An item in today's聽CBC News reports on towns in Labrador West that are repositioning their economies for the 21st Century. These local economies once relied on mining minerals but are now housing...
The title page of the聽new Oxford edition of Shakespeare's three聽Henry VI聽plays will, for the first time ever, include the words "by聽William聽Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe".聽Most people have...
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