Technology

More than 15,000 attendees and 550 speakers are at this year’s Consensus Web3 conference in Austin, Texas. Along-running, crypto-centric conference has announced it’s coming to Toronto for the first time in 2025.  Consensus looks to bring together industry players from around the world to talk about digital assets, blockchain, Web3, and artificial intelligence ...

Safety tips from a cyber security expert for a better online shopping experience ‘Tis the season for those “too-good-to-be-true” online shopping deals. While the convenience of browsing and buying online cannot be denied, online shopping should always be done with a cautious eye. Quite often, a deal seems to good to ...

Africa Data Centres is investing $200 million or R3 billion in building data centres in Nairobi, Kenya. The company is owned by Liquid Intelligent Technologies, which is held by Econet Group and controlled by billionaire and philanthropist Strive Mayiwa. The company has begun development of a second data centre of up ...

Microsoft has announced plans for a large new Canadian headquarters in downtown in Toronto, what it describes as a “massive new investment.” The company plans to move into 81 Bay Street, the first of two buildings in the “CIBC Square” complex near the city’s waterfront, currently under construction. “Increasingly, Canada is being ...

A Canadian data expert who set off an international uproar over the alleged leak of private Facebook user data lost his job years ago in the office of former Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff, in large part because he was pushing a nascent form of the controversial data-harvesting technique, says a ...