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Smart Home Technology…Speed Bumps?

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While more smart home technology keeps rolling out from manufacturers, some of the targeted customers are finding the systems do not always satisfy their expectations or have shortcomings. This was pointed out recently in a Wall Street Journal piece that noted the downsides of the latest smart home systems that control lighting, door locks, and thermostats, among other things. Not Worth the Trouble? One of those people is a professor of mechanical engineering who is also

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Google Loses Data as Lightning Strikes

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Google says data has been wiped from discs at one of its data centres in Belgium – after the local power grid was struck by lightning four times. Some people have permanently lost access to the files on the affected disks as a result. A number of disks damaged following the lightning strikes did, however, later became accessible. Generally, data centres require more lightning protection than most other buildings. Google

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Canada a New Technology Hotbed?

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If so, we need to commit to it! Khanjan Desai is the founder of Neverfrost, a nanotechnology startup based in Waterloo, Ont. On May 9, The Globe and Mail published Canadians can innovate, but we’re not equipped to win, by former Research In Motion co-CEO Jim Balsillie. This is part of a series responding to and expanding on that essay. Founding a startup is incredibly hard, and if there is

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Space elevator with inflatable tower patented by Thoth Technology

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Space cargo would travel up tower and launch from high altitude or low-Earth orbit Pembroke, Ont.-based Thoth Technology has patented an inflatable tower that could carry a “space elevator” higher than passenger jets fly – and eventually into low-Earth orbit. The patent, which has been granted in the U.K. and the U.S. so far, describes a tower with a space launch platform on top that would initially be built to a height of around 20

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Samsung Introduces New Phones and Mobile Payments System

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The Samsung Note 5, right, includes a digital pen. The S6 Edge Plus, left, has a curved screen that wraps around the sides of the phone.Credit Samsung Heavy lies the crown for any leader in the smartphone market, and Samsung’s plan to stay in the lead is to introduce new phones alongside a new mobile payments system. The South Korean manufacturer introduced two big-screen Galaxy phones on Thursday: the Note 5, which includes

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Samsung Electronics unveils high-end phones in search of sales boost

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Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS) unveiled a new Galaxy Note phablet and a larger version of its curved-screen S6 edge smartphone on Thursday, marking a fresh bid by the South Korean company to revive momentum in its handset business. Samsung is the world’s top smartphone maker but its market share fell in the second quarter when the company released its critically acclaimed S6 models, squeezed by Apple Inc’s (AAPL.O) upscale

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Digital Technology Is Not As Harmful For Kids As It Is Made To Seem, According To Scientists

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Technology is a divisive topic for many people across many fields. Medical innovations always have staunch supporters and cynics, and the globalized online web has become so ubiquitous, we’d barely be able to function without it. This intense use of the Internet has garnered concern like any other technical advance, but a new editorial published in The BMJ says that certain exaggerated viewpoints are harmful, and that they aren’t backed up by

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Google’s Balloons Will Provide an Entire Country With Wi-Fi

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HINT: IT’S A SMALL COUNTRY. Google’s plan to bring internet to the world via balloon has found a toehold in central Asia. The government of Sri Lanka announced this week that Google’s Project Loon will provide “affordable high-speed” internet coverage for the entire country, beamed from balloons floating in the atmosphere. Neither the Sri Lankan government or Google has set a concrete time table, but foreign minister Mangala Samaraweera made

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Cortana for Windows 10: Top Features for Business

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By Brett Nuckles No room in your budget to hire a personal assistant? You might not need one after you upgrade to Windows 10. Microsoft’s latest desktop operating system – available as a free upgrade for all computers currently running Windows 7 or 8 – adds a handy new personal assistant application called Cortana. The app, which is always just one click or voice command away on the Windows 10 desktop,

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The Future of Work: Designing Technology That Makes Us Feel Better at Work

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The latest entry in a special project in which business and labor leaders, social scientists, technology visionaries, activists, and journalists weigh in on the most consequential changes in the workplace. We spend so many hours on our devices, tapping and typing, racing to keep up. We aren’t getting up and moving our bodies as much as we did before, or spending quality time face to face. And the amount of

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